Cody Carnes tops Billboard’s Christian AC Airplay chart for the first time, as “Firm Foundation (He Won’t)” ascends to No. 1 on the survey Jan. 27. In the Jan. 12-18 tracking week, the song increased by 3% in plays, according to Luminate.
On the genre’s overall Christian Airplay chart, the track holds at its No. 2 best, up 2% to 5.4 million in audience.
Carnes, Austin Davis and Chandler Moore wrote the song, which Davis produced.
The 34-year-old Carnes, from Atlanta, banked two prior Christian AC Airplay top 10s. “Ain’t Nobody” hit No. 2 last April and “The Blessing: Live,” with Kari Jobe and Elevation Worship, reached No. 5 in August 2020.
Carnes and Jobe married in November 2014.
Little, Stone Roll to No. 1
Damon Little’s “No Stressing,” featuring Angie Stone, rises to No. 1 on Gospel Airplay (up 3% in plays). It becomes Little’s second chart-topper and Stone’s first, in her first appearance on the ranking.
Little solely wrote and produced the song.
Little, from Baltimore, follows his first Gospel Airplay No. 1, “Stand Up,” which led for a week in December 2021. He boasts three prior top 10s: “I Won’t Be Defeated” (No. 2, February 2017), “Because of You” (No. 9, January 2015) and “Do Right,” with Nu Beginning (No. 7, April 2005).
Stone, 62, was formerly in hip-hop act The Sequence before posting seven solo entries on the all-genre Billboard 200 between 2000 and 2015. She hit a No. 11 high on the chart with The Art of Love & War in 2007.
