Needtobreathe tops SoundScan

Written by Eric Tiansay

Thursday, 23 June 2011 03:40 PM America/New_York

The Outsiders

by Needtobreathe (Atlantic Records/Word Distribution) replaced Angel & Chanelle by Trin-i-tee 5:7 (Music World Entertainment/Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG Distribution) atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending June 12, while The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (Campbell Stone Media/Inspirational Entertainment/Word) continued to hold the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following The Outsiders were: 2. Blessings by Laura Story (Fair Trade Services/INO Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 3. V3...Just James by J Moss (Gospo Centric/Provident-Integrity); 4. Sacred Love Songs 2 by T.D. Jakes (Dexterity Sounds/Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); 5. Hundred More Years by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 6. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 7. Wow #1s (Word Records/Word); 8. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 9. Until the Whole World Hears by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Listen to the Sound by Building 429 (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity).

After The Pistol, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Steve Harvey: Don't Trip... He Ain't Through With Me Yet! (Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); 3. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 4. Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Veggie Classics Triple Feature, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. The Ten Commandments (Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 7. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 8. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Vivendi Entertainment/Universal Music Group/EMI CMG); 9. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 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.