Brandon Lake & CeCe Winans Shine on Christian & Gospel Year-End Charts: Countdown to Billboard’s 2025 Year-End Charts

All of Billboard’s 2025 year-end charts are almost here, and we’re counting down the days to their unveiling on Tuesday, Dec. 9, with a special look at select rankings in the lead-up to the big reveal — today featuring a year-end Christian chart and a year-end gospel chart.

On Dec. 9, hundreds of year-end charts will be posted on Billboard’s website, following the conclusion of the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski, which will broadcast on the Billboard News YouTube channel and BillboardTV on Samsung TV Plus starting at noon ET/9 a.m. PT, as special surprise guests stop by to celebrate the year in chart-toppers.

Today, we’re dropping the top 10 of the 2025 Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs charts below. Brandon Lake‘s “Hard Fought Hallelujah” leads the former, while CeCe Winans‘ “That’s My King” crowns the latter. “Hallelujah” debuted at No. 1 on the weekly edition of the Hot Christian Songs chart (dated Nov. 23, 2024) and then ranked at either Nos. 1 or 2 for the remainder of the 2025 chart year (which ran from the Oct. 26, 2024, through the Oct. 18, 2025-dated charts). As for “Thats My King,” the cut launched at No. 6 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated Hot Gospel Songs chart, and reached No. 1 on May 11, 2024. During the 2025 chart year, it racked up multiple weeks at No. 1 and was never below No. 3 in that span of time.

Both Lake and Winans dominate the top 10s of the two rankings. On the year-end Hot Christian Songs roundup, Lake has four titles among the top 10 (including the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 titles), while Winans has both Nos. 1 and 2 on the year-end Hot Gospel Songs retrospective.

For the top 10 of both lists, scroll below. The full depth of both rankings (beyond the top 10 of each) will be posted Dec. 9 alongside the complete menu of Billboard’s 2025 year-end charts.

Billboard’s year-end music charts represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the entries appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.