Play Count VS Patience

So, the question at hand, "should we use a number system to determine when a song is "done with""?

My thoughts are a little on both sides of this topic. I want to begin with the fact that God comes first in this equation. The songs we put forth on Sunday morning, Wednesday evening, Sunday afternoon, (whatever the case may be), need to be played with the desire to see the Lord glorified by His people. Now, with that in mind, songs have to be placed together in a service in which it allows people to freely worship.

Here's my system:
Week 1: begins in rotation (fast songs usually start in 2nd or 3rd slot - slow songs usually towards the mid part of the set)
Week 2: shuffles around in set a bit
Week 3: out of rotation
Week 4: fast songs - 1 song slot
slow songs - song before message
Week 5: it is either dropped from rotation, or takes one week off

There are exceptions to this system:

a) our people really respond to a song:
- I have left worship on week 2 and I hear people singing or humming the song.
- in worship people are visibly engaged in worship

b) it is special music
c) the song is visibly distracting

It is important to be (as a musician/vocalist) excited and not annoyed by a song that you are leading. Blake mentioned that there is nothing more annoying than an overplayed song. And this is true. HOWEVER, as a worship leader, often times you have to give up your personal tastes and opinions. HOLD UP! I did just go there...and I am sorry if that is not what some believe. I hold that to be true alot of the time in my worship situation.

Wesley is home to alot of folks that enjoy older contemporary music and hymns. That's not the type of worship music I respond to, but, I am called to further the Kingdom, and if that's how Wesleyans respond, than that is the music I am called to play. I belive a system to determine when a song is overplayed is good, on paper and in theory.... but to determine if the people find the number of times you play a redundant is quite a different system. Congregations are complex, and the Lord works in many different ways, that to devise such a system might be impossible.