Forrest Frank & Brandon Lake Shape Every Corner of 2025’s Year-End Christian Charts

A handful of artists set the pace across Billboard’s Christian charts, led by Forrest Frank and Brandon Lake, two Texans whose consistency and volume of releases shaped nearly every major year-end Christian ranking.

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Frank and Lake appear on nearly every Christian-centric year-end Billboard metric, Top Christian Artists among them, with Frank and Lake at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. Top Christian Artists reflects the year’s biggest acts by combining activity on the weekly Hot Christian Songs and Top Christian Albums charts, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring) data, for the 2025 chart year (Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025).

Frank, the 30-year-old singer, songwriter and producer, charted 39 titles on Hot Christian Songs during the 2025 chart year — the most of any act. Lake charted the year’s second-most, with 21. Of Frank’s charting hits, 11 became top 10s (including a pair of No. 1s), while Lake saw eight of his go top 10 (one of which hit the top).

Half of the top 10 on the year-end Hot Christian Songs chart are from Lake and Frank, as Lake is found at Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 7, while Frank is at No. 2. Lake leads the list with “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” which spent 26 weeks at No. 1 on the weekly version of the chart during the 2025 eligibility period. At No. 2 on the year-end list is Frank’s “Your Way’s Better,” which first topped the weekly chart on the May 24, 2025-dated list, and logged 18 weeks in the lead during the chart year.

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.

Frank’s album success is just as notable. Child of God and Child of God II occupy Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on Billboard’s year-end Top Christian Albums for 2025. The former, a 2024 release, spent 27 weeks at No. 1 during the 2025 chart year. The set’s May 2025 sequel posted 15 weeks at the summit during the eligibility period.

Lake, meanwhile, is carving his own impressive path. Sitting behind Frank at No. 2 on Billboard’s year-end Top Christian Artists ranking, the Dallas native has posted 21 titles on Hot Christian Songs this year, including eight top 10s. His year-end Hot Christian Songs winner “Hard Fought Hallelujah” was a multi-format hit, not only leading the weekly Hot Christian Songs chart for 26 weeks during the chart year, but also peaking at No. 12 on Hot Country Songs, No. 8 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, No. 25 on the Adult Contemporary  airplay chart and No. 40 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. He also logged his first top 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart with the No. 7 bow of King of Hearts in June. (King of Hearts closes 2025 at No. 4 on the year-end Top Christian Albums recap.)

CeCe Winans and Lauren Daigle lead the Top Christian Artists – Female recap. (The former also leads the year-end Top Gospel Artists roundup.)

Winans, one of the most recognized talents in faith-based music, logged a pair of top 10s on the weekly Hot Christian Songs chart, while also seeing two of her albums (Believe For It: A Live Worship Experience and More Than This) spend all 52 weeks of the year on the Top Christian Albums chart.

The Louisiana-born Daigle, a staple in Christian formats for much of the last 10 years, is No. 2 on the Top Christian Artists – Female recap. Like Winans, Daigle saw two of her albums rank on the weekly Top Christian Albums chart for the entire 2025 eligibility period: How Can It Be (a 2015 release) and Look Up Child (released in 2018), which fuel her year-end finish on the Top Christian Artists ranking.