Your Way's Better

Forrest Frank has described writing “Your Way’s Better” the way a lot of worship songwriters describe their best work: not as a planned single, but as a prayer he happened to be saying out loud while driving, which he built into a full song months later while on tour. Released October 25, 2024 through his own River House Records, it sat as one more track on a Christian pop album for months – until a TikTok dance trend picked it up in February 2025, entirely apart from any label campaign, and drove it onto the Billboard Hot 100 that May, seven months after release and with no radio push responsible for the jump. Frank has framed the pattern as evidence of what he calls “the invisible market” for Christian music: an audience that finds songs through social platforms rather than Christian radio, and moves them into the mainstream on its own schedule.

The song itself is unpretentious to a fault – a simple, hook-forward pop-worship track built around a repeated, easily learned refrain that hands over control rather than working through complicated theology. That simplicity is exactly what made it TikTok-friendly, and it’s also the record’s ceiling: there’s real craft in making a hook this immediately singable, but very little else going on underneath it once the hook has done its job. It’s a song built to be repeated by a crowd, not examined line by line, and it succeeds cleanly at the job it set out to do.

Commercially, that job succeeded well beyond a typical Christian radio single: a No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs, a Gold certification, a 2025 GMA Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year, and a Grammy nomination in the same category “Hard Fought Hallelujah” ultimately won. The gap between those two songs’ Grammy outcomes tracks roughly with the gap in their actual substance – Frank’s song is a very good hook with little underneath it, while Lake and Jelly Roll’s has a specific, lived story doing the heavier lifting.

7.6/10 – a genuinely well-built hook that became a hit the honest way, by spreading person to person rather than being pushed there.

Hero image: Single cover art, “Your Way’s Better,” Forrest Frank (2024, River House Records). Used under fair use for editorial review.