LDS Hymn Stats

Trends, stats, and trivia about @Ch_JesusChrist congregational hymns. Based on data collected from over 48,000 sacrament meetings. Managed by @joey_stan.

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I just hit 1000 years of sacrament meetings.

52 weeks/year, minus four for general and stake conferences, leaves 48 per year. I've got 48,070 sacrament meetings.

This is about a dozen lifetimes of church meetings. Or the lifetime of the 1985 hymnal from 25 wards.

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@JFloyd314 Getting a head start on the 4th of July!

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church this week? I’m attending a different ward today and we’re doing 66, 186, 1057.

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@theatomicmom Yeah that’s tricky. I’d just do that measure in 4 if I were conducting.

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@deathnerdjacob Wait, 1080?

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@kathyballardwvc I guess if you’re not used to singing the melody and you’ve lost half the congregation and organ for support, confidence drops and you cut out.

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did or will you sing in church this week?

I haven’t kept up with the data quite as well for this sixth batch, but I’m seeing very few wards sing from it.

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@natehowe Now I hear grumbling because they all don’t fit anymore (as if a second folder isn’t possible) and coordinators saying “well, I’ve got the rest of the year planed out so I guess we won’t be singing these new ones.”

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@natehowe The novelty has certainly died down. Earlier, we’d see youth nights centered around creating or updating the folders and programs changing last minute to accommodate a newly released hymn.

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@EbiePipeOrgan This was my second time too. Last time I got released was when they released all of us at general conference. We’re moving so it was time to get released.

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church this week?

(I just got released as EQP so I’m feeling great today!)

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@kathyballardwvc Ooh, 105. I don’t see that one too often.

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@theatomicmom What a lineup!

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church this week? Anything special for Memorial Day?

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church this week?

We sang 1023 for the first time today and I really liked it!

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Happy Mother’s Day! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church today?

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@kathyballardwvc Until last month, it was my wife! So, yes. 🥰

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church today? (We cracked open the sixth batch for the first time with 1062!)

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will you sing in church this week?

I finally have an analysis of the sixth batch of hymns! Spoiler: it hasn’t been a popular batch. https://t.co/f9vurwuGUv

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@kathyballardwvc Practice with a can of food in hand!

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Weekly check-in! What hymns did/will your ward sing in church this week? (I’m working on an analysis of the sixth batch. It has taken this long to get enough data for anything meaningful.)

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@JonMarshallNV I guess it has been a busy month!