‘Love Takes Wing,’ Newsboys top SoundScan charts

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 18 May 2009 02:53 PM America/New_York

Love Takes Wing (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word Distribution) supplanted Chonda Pierce's Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity Distribution) for the top spot on the SoundScan Christian Video list for sales the week ending May 10, while Newsboys' In the Hands of God (Inpop Records/EMI CMG Distribution) replaced Point of Grace's How You Live (Word Records/Word) atop the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart.

After Love Takes Wing--the seventh installment of Janette Oke's "Love Comes Softly" series (Bethany House Publishers/Baker Publishing Group)--the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! 3. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 4. Read and Share DVD Bible Volume 1 by Gwen Ellis (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 5. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 6. Tree of Life, Really Woolly (Flying Rhinoceros/DaySpring); 7. The Second Chance (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 8. This Ain't Prettyville by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity); 9. I'm Free (Hosted By Gloria Gaither) by Lynda Randle (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. Gaither Vocal Band Reunion Volume One by Gaither Vocal Band (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG).

Following In the Hands of God on the music list were: 2. Point of Grace's How You Live; 3. Crash by Decyfer Down (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 5. The Long Fall Back to Earth by Jars of Clay (Essential Records/Gray Matters/Provident-Integrity); 6. Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Word Records/Word Distribution); 7. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. A New Hallelujah by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); and 10. What If We by Brandon Heath (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity).

The video listings, drawn from a national sample of mainstream and Christian store sales, with music listings based on sales solely at Christian stores, were produced for the Christian Music Trade Association by Nielsen SoundScan.