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MercyMe, ‘Flywheel’ atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 03 June 2010 03:09 PM America/New_York
The Generous Mr. Lovewell

by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted The Light Meets the Dark 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 26, while Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) remained atop the Christian Videos list.

Following The Generous Mr. Lovewell were: 2. The Light Meets the Dark; 3. Fireflies and Songs by Sara Groves (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. The Gospel Music of The Statler Brothers, Vol. 1 by The Statler Brothers (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG Distribution); 5. The Gospel Music of The Statler Brothers, Vol. 2 by The Statler Brothers (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 6. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Arriving by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 8. Tonight by TobyMac (Forefront Records/EMI CMG); 9. Freedom by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); and 10. Weakness Makes You Beautiful by Petree (Dream Records/Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG).

After Flywheel, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Flo Show Creates a Buzz, Max Lucado's Hermie & Friends (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 3. The Gospel Music of The Statler Brothers, Vol. 1 by The Statler Brothers (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 4. The Gospel Music of The Statler Brothers, Vol. 2 by The Statler Brothers (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 5. Josh and the Big Wall, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word Distribution); 6. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 7. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 8. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 9. Gigi's Big Break, "Gigi, God's Little Princess" series (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); and 10. Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't, VeggieTales (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.