I'd use 3 4017 counters, chained together. Just clock the chain from your microcontroller. The 4017 is very cheap, has an output for each LED (so no decoding), and can be set up very easily to be chained. You would need 3 for your application. The 23 pin output should just reset them all to restart the count.
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