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MercyMe, Chonda Pierce atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 17 May 2010 02:50 PM America/New_York
The Generous Mr. Lovewell

by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) replaced Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending May 12, while This Ain't Prettyville by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity) remained atop the Christian Videos list.

Following The Generous Mr. Lovewell were: 2. Over and Underneath; 3. Until the While World Hears by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. Tonight by TobyMac (Forefront Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 5. The More I Seek You by Gateway Worship (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 6. Speaking Louder Than Before by Jeremy Camp (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG); 7. Wow Worship (Purple) by various artists (Word Records/Word); 8. Something to Say by Matthew West (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 9. Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); and 10. Relentless by Natalie Grant (Curb Records/Word Distribution).

After This Ain't Prettyville, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 3. Heroes of the Bible! Vol. 3, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word); 4. A Woman's Prayer Life by Beth Moore, "Extraordinary Women" series (Word Entertainment/Word); 5. The Wager (Pure Flix/Genius Products/EMI CMG); 6. Believe in Me (GT Media/EMI CMG); 7. Though None Go With Me (GT Media/EMI CMG); 8. The Lost and Found Family (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 9. My Father's World, "The Praise Baby Collection" (Big House Kids/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Matchmaker Mary (Pure Flix/EMI CMG).

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.