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Here you can discover and appreciate Catholic-Christian songs both old and new. As a guest viewer, you can see all published content. When you sign up free as a member you can:
- Post your own original songs, including audio files, lyrics and attachments such as lead sheets or music scores. Please do not post more than one song a day. This will help ensure that website visitors will see a variety of recent posts from different members.
- Cover songs are discouraged unless you have permission from the copyright holder.
- Make and receive comments on posted songs. Collaborate with other song artists using private email messaging. Make your song the best that it can be!
- Create new forum topics. Ask about an old song you used to sing in church or school.
Top Catholic Songs (TCS) helps Catholic-Christian songwriters, songleaders, catechists and group leaders with song selection, songwriting, do-it-yourself song notation, and promotion. Song artists share talents, tips, influences, favorite songs or stories related to their journey in music. Some of the songs in our various user-generated articles are dynamically connected to iTunes where a seeker of quality Catholic music can listen to and purchase music tracks. Other songs are directly downloadable as MP3 files.
Due to copyright laws, TCS does not allow posting of lyrics to copyrighted songs that are not in the public domain. The exception is any song for which the composer or copyright holder has given a TCS member direct and explicit permission to share.
Privacy statement: We do not sell or give away your email address to anyone. When you delete your account, the profile information you provided is permanently erased.
See our list of registered users and their reasons for joining.
Find practice tracks and lyrics for liturgies and other church services by referring to our Liturgical Music Resources page. And see this useful GIA hymnals comparative listing of songs.
Use the on-site search window to find songs, artists, composers, music-making tips and more.
You can go to YouTube.com to find psalms and hymns to listen to. You will find there many songs managed by ONE LICENSE (including songs from hymnals by GIA and OCP.
You can see low-resolution sheet music previews of many popular Catholic songs at Hymnary.org.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q. How do I contact the site admin or owner?
A. Send an email to info@topcatholicsongs.com. Current site owner and admin is Richard Schletty.
Q. I am a Catholic musician. I want to promote my music. How do I join this community?
A. Become a registered user at this site: Create a New Account. You may create your own stories, blog and forum topics. Upload your music to iTunes, CDBaby, SoundCloud or YouTube and place links to your songs in a story or blog post.
Q. Do you have tips for formatting stories and blog posts?
A. See this page for help on inserting YouTube videos, getting better line spacing and inserting images into your posts: topcatholicsongs.com/formatting-tips
Q. Why do some psalms have two numbers?
You may have seen, for example, Psalm 22(23). The numbering of the Psalms differs—mostly by one, between the Hebrew (Masoretic) and Greek (Septuagint) manuscripts. Protestant translations use the Hebrew numbering, but other Christian traditions vary. More information here: Numbering differences for the psalms
Q. How do I upload to iTunes?
A: See these links (Please report outdated or broken links):
iTunes Connect
iTunes Connect Resources and Help
iTunes Connect Online Application (for uploading your music direct to Apple iTunes)
iTunes Connect Music Partner Search (for uploading your music to Apple iTunes through a third party publisher like CDBaby.com or Tunecore.com)