Christian Retailing

Third Day, ‘Fireproof’ atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:43 PM America/New_York
Revelation

by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) replaced Kari Jobe by Kari Jobe (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity) atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Feb. 6, while Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) continued to hold the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following Revelation were: 2. Until We Have Faces by Red (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 4. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 5. We All Are One: Live in Detroit by Donnie McClurkin (Verity Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. Church Music by David Crowder Band (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 7. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 8. Kari Jobe; 9. God Be Praised by Gateway Worship (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); and 10. How Sweet the Sound: My All-Time Favorites by George Beverly Shea (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG).

After Fireproof, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 3. Like Dandelion Dust (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 4. Then Sings My Soul by George Beverly Shea (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 5. The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 6. Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ (Thomas Nelson); 7. Silly Little Thing Called Love, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word Distribution); 8. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 9. An Easter Carol, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word); and 10. Soldier Love Story (Vivendi Entertainment/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.