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Hillsong United, ‘Fireproof’ top SoundScan charts Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 08 June 2009 02:08 PM America/New_York

Australian-based Hillsong United's A Cross the Earth: Tear Down the Walls (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted Press Play's Life Is Beautiful (Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG Distribution) atop the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending May 31, while Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) remained in the top spot of the SoundScan Christian Videos list.

Following A Cross the Earth were: 2. How You Live by Point of Grace (Word Records/Word Distribution); 3. Press Play's Life Is Beautiful; 4. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 6. In the Hands of God by Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 7. Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity); 8. The Long Fall Back to Earth by Jars of Clay (Essential Records/Gray Matters/Provident-Integrity); 9. Crash by Decyfer Down (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. A New Hallelujah by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity).

After Fireproof the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Second Chance (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 3. Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity); 4. Read and Share DVD Bible Volume 1 by Gwen Ellis (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 5. Tree of Life, Really Woolly (Flying Rhinoceros/DaySpring); 6. Love Takes Wing (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 7. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 8. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 9. A Gospel Journey by The Oak Ridge Boys (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. VeggieTales: Abe and the Amazing Promise (Big Idea/Word).

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.