"A song can change someone's life," Smith marvels. After nearly 40 years on Billboard's charts, Christian music cornerstone Michael W.
Smith is still breaking new ground. On the latest Christian Airplay tally (dated May 16), "Waymaker," featuring Vanessa Campagna, climbs 3-1, marking Smith's first leader on the list, which launched in 2003, around two decades after Smith first began charting entries on Billboard surveys. "Waymaker" is from Smith's LP Awaken: The Surrounded Experience, which reached No.
13 on Top Christian Albums in March. Smith and Campagna subsequently recorded a four-minute studio version of the song for radio, compared with the album’s seven-minute live version.