Reviewed by Ian Hayter

Taking the Top 30 songs as indicated in the CCLi list will kind of give you Britain's 30 most popular worship songs. I say 'kind of' because such a list will only tell you the COPYRIGHT songs and will, of course, ignore all the dozens of public domain hymns used in worship in the British church every week. But let's let that pass. If you popped into most evangelical church services next Sunday you'd hear at least one of the songs featured here being sung at some point. From the mid-20th century stalwarts "How Great Thou Art" and "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" through the perennial favourites of the 1970s and 1980s such as "Majesty", "As The Deer" and "Shine, Jesus, Shine", to the classic songs of the new millennium like "How Great Is Our God" and "In Christ Alone", there's something for pretty well everyone here in this compilation. Although there are no artist credits on the CD sleeve, some of the tracks are clearly by the original artists, some are live and others studio recordings. It's all well-produced and is a good selection of songs, great to listen to and useful in all kinds of situations. The only question is: why the need for yet another compilation of tracks that are already so widely available on other worship albums?

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