Casting Crowns, 'Jonathan Sperry' atop SoundScan

Written by Eric Tiansay

Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:14 PM America/New_York

Until the Whole World Hears

by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) replaced Passion: Here for You by various artists/Passion Band (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution) atopped the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending March 20, while The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group/Bridgestone Multimedia Group) supplanted VeggieTales''Twas the Night Before Easter (Big Idea/Word Distribution) for the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following Until the Whole World Hears were: 2. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 3. Hundred More Years by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 4. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. Move by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. Freedom by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 7. Wow #1s (Word Records/Word); 8. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 9. Church Music by David Crowder Band (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); and 10. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG).

After The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. 'Twas the Night Before Easter, VeggieTales; 3. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 4. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 5. Lord of the Beans, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. Alaskan Homecoming by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 7. Majesty by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. The Live Experience II by The Rance Allen Group (Tyscot Records/Word); 9. Wow Gospel 2010 by various artists (Verity Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Like Dandelion Dust (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/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.