| Number of wards I have data from, by week | |
|---|---|
| Since June 15th, 2025 | |
| date | wards |
| June 15 | 602 |
| June 22 | 519 |
| June 29 | 433 |
| July 06 | 697 |
| July 13 | 482 |
The Fourth Batch of New Hymns!
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On June 12th, 2025, the church released the fourth batch of new hymns. In previous posts, I have covered in detail the first, second, and third batches of hymns and how they were incorporated into sacrament meetings. This page covers period since when the fourth batch came out and will update weekly as more data comes in.
Currently I have data from 2,733 sacrament meetings from 890 wards since June 15, 2025. Here’s how much data I have for each week so far, just so you have an idea of what I’m working with.
How many wards sang new hymns each week?
The following plot show what percentage of wards sang from each of the new batches of hymns, per week, since June 2024 when the new hymns started getting rolled out. I’ve included data from all batches just so you can compare them to each other.
In the five weeks since the fourth batch was released, we’ve seen a very slow but pretty consistent rise in popularity. This last Sunday (July 13th) was the best so far but still less than 4% of wards sang from the fourth batch this week.
Here’s another version of the same plot but instead of the actual dates, it’s in terms of how many weeks since the batches came out. This version of the plot is useful to spot any parallel trends across the batches, especially in the first few weeks of their release.
Here we can see that each batch is a little less popular than the previous one, both overall and week by week. Nearly 20% of wards sang from the first batch the week it came out. About 8% did for the second batch. About 1% for the third batch. And of the 576 wards I have data from on June 15th, just one of them sang from the fourth batch. Granted, it was Father’s Day, but after four weeks, there have been hardly any more.
What hymns are most popular?
The following table shows the hymns from the fourth batch in order of how popular they are. On the right, I have an approximation of how many wards have sung that hymn during this period. I haven’t even seen all of them yet, so this is just a very rough guess.
| Approximate percentage of wards new hymns have been sung in | |
|---|---|
| Since June 15, 2025 | |
| Hymn | percent of wards |
| O Lord, Who Gave Thy Life for Me (1041) | 1.8% |
| Because (1039) | 1.2% |
| Look unto Christ (1032) | 1.2% |
| I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me (1037) | 1.0% |
| I'm a Pioneer Too (1034) | 0.6% |
| The Lord's My Shepherd (1038) | 0.6% |
| His Voice as the Sound (1040) | 0.5% |
| As I Keep the Sabbath Day (1035) | 0.4% |
| Oh, How Great Is Our Joy (1033) | 0.1% |
| Read the Book of Mormon and Pray (1036) | 0% |
| Still, Still, Still (1207) | 0% |
When during meetings are these hymns sung?
We can also see when during sacrament meetings these hymns have been sung. Data sparsity makes this a pretty unreliable though. We’ll have to wait a few more weeks or months to really see some more meaningful trends.
| When were new hymns sung in sacrament meeting? | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since June 15, 2025 | ||||
| New Hymn | Opening | Sacrament | Intermediate | Closing |
| Look unto Christ (1032) |
0%
|
0%
|
50%
|
50%
|
| Oh, How Great Is Our Joy (1033) |
100%
|
0%
|
0%
|
0%
|
| I'm a Pioneer Too (1034) |
33%
|
0%
|
67%
|
0%
|
| As I Keep the Sabbath Day (1035) |
0%
|
0%
|
50%
|
50%
|
| I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me (1037) |
40%
|
0%
|
60%
|
0%
|
| The Lord's My Shepherd (1038) |
33%
|
0%
|
0%
|
67%
|
| Because (1039) |
38%
|
0%
|
25%
|
38%
|
| His Voice as the Sound (1040) |
0%
|
0%
|
33%
|
67%
|
| O Lord, Who Gave Thy Life for Me (1041) |
20%
|
80%
|
0%
|
0%
|
| Note: Each row adds up to 100%. | ||||
Conclusion
There’s really not much more to say right now. We’ll see if more people sing from this batch next week!