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Tenth Avenue North, ‘Flywheel’ atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 24 May 2010 03:09 PM America/New_York
The Light Meets the Dark

by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted The Generous Mr. Lovewell by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending May 19, while Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) replaced This Ain't Prettyville by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity) atop the Christian Videos list.

Following The Light Meets the Dark were: 2. The Generous Mr. Lovewell; 3. Fireflies and Songs by Sara Groves (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. Tonight by TobyMac (Forefront Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 6. Until the While World Hears by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Wow Worship (Purple) by various artists (Word Records/Word Distribution); 8. Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 9. Awake by Skillet (Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Songs 4 Worship 50 by various artists (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity).

After Flywheel, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Flo Show Creates a Buzz, Hermie & Friends (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 3. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 4. Josh and the Big Wall, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word); 5. Gigi's Big Break, "Gigi, God's Little Princess" series (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 6. Antonio Meets His Match, Hermie & Friends (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 7. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 8. Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 9. The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word); and 10. The Lost and Found Family (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident Films/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.