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The Seventh Batch of New Hymns!

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Author

Joey Stanley

Published

July 24, 2026

Modified

September 13, 2026

On July 23, 2026, the church released the seventh batch of new hymns. In previous posts, I have covered in detail the previous batches of hymns and how they were incorporated into sacrament meetings. This page covers period since when the seventh batch came out until now.

Currently I have data from 2,784 sacrament meetings from 1,049 wards since July 23, 2026. Here’s how much data I have for each week so far, just so you have an idea of what I’m working with.

Number of wards I have data from, by week
Since July 23, 2026
date wards
July 26 895
August 02 232
August 09 86
August 16 65
August 23 62
August 30 601
September 06 831
September 13 12

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.

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 it’s easier to see that the first two months of the sixth batch have been the least popular out of any batch so far. It has gotten about as popular as the other batches since then, but it still lags just a little bit.

When during meetings are these hymns sung?

This table shows when during sacrament meetings these hymns have been sung.

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