CeCe Winans Reigns on Year-End Gospel Charts Once More

CeCe Winans made noise again atop Billboard’s 2025 year-end Top Gospel Artists chart, crowning the list for a second straight year. She’s also the No. 7 overall Top Christian Artist, and the leading female artist on both rankings.

Explore All of Billboard’s 2025 Year-End Charts

Both the Top Gospel Artists and Top Christian Artists recaps reflect the year’s top acts in the respective genres. The former combines activity on the weekly Top Gospel Albums and Hot Gospel Songs chart, while the latter blends Top Christian Albums and Hot Christian Songs. Both tallies also take Billboard Boxscore (touring) data into account as well.

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.

Winans six charted titles on the weekly version of the Hot Gospel Songs chart during the 2025 chart year (which ran from Oct. 25, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025), and two of those spent time at No. 1. “Come Jesus Come” — her fourth career No. 1 on the list — logged 23 weeks atop the chart during the eligibility period. Meanwhile, a chart-topper from 2024, “That’s My King,” continued to reign into 2025, with 25 weeks No. 1 during the chart year. All told, Winans was so dominant on the Hot Gospel Songs chart in 2025, of the 52 weeks in the chart year, she was No. 1 in all but four weeks.

Not surprisingly, “That’s My King” and “Come Jesus Come” are Nos. 1 and 2 on the 2025 Hot Gospel Songs year-end list.

Altogether, Winans appears as either a lead or featured act on six titles on the year-end list, a testament to how firmly her material still anchors the format.

Winans concurrently places two sets in the top 10 on the year-end Top Gospel Albums chart: More Than This and Believe For It: A Live Worship Experience at Nos. 3 and 4, respectively. Both debuted at No. 1 (in 2024 and 2021), with the former spending eight weeks at No. 1 during the 2025 chart year (and never leaving the top 10 on the weekly chart). Further, Believe For It has yet to depart the weekly ranking after more than 240 weeks on the chart, and spent the entire 2025 chart year in the top five on the weekly chart.

Winans’ 2025 successes also place her at No. 1 on the Top Gospel Artists – Female ranking, with Tasha Cobbs Leonard at No. 2. Cobbs Leonard is enjoying a standout year of her own. She placed four titles on the 50-position year-end Hot Gospel Songs chart, including two in the top 20.

The year’s Top Gospel Artist – Duo/Group is Maverick City Music while the Top Gospel Artist – Male is Ye (formerly Kanye West). The latter’s enduring 2021 release Donda, which marked his second leader on the weekly Top Gospel Albums chart, was in the top five on the weekly chart in every week during the 2025 chart year (including 14 weeks at No. 1 — of its more than 150 in the lead thus far). It closes 2025 at No. 1 on the year-end Top Gospel Albums roundup for a fourth consecutive year.