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Written by Eric Tiansay
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Monday, 30 August 2010 02:44 PM America/New_York |
 The new VeggieTales release Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart (Big Idea/Word Distribution) replaced Letters to God (Possibility Pictures/Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG Distribution) for the top spot of the Christian Videos list for sales the week ending Aug. 25, while Francesca Battistelli's My Paper Heart (Fervent Records/Word Distribution) remained atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart.
After Sweetpea Beauty, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Letters to God; 3. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Universal Music Christian Group/Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 4. Rack, Shack & Benny, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. To Save a Life (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 6. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 7. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 8. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 9. Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); and 10. The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group/Bridgestone Multimedia Group).
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