Christian Retailing

VeggieTales again dominates SoundScan charts Print Email
Sunday, 27 July 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

The latest VeggieTales release (Big Idea/Word Distribution) remained at the top of SoundScan's Christian Videos list for sales the week ending July 20, while Jeremy Camp's Beyond Measure (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG Distribution) continued to be the top-selling album in the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart.

Released July 12, VeggieTales: Tomato Sawyer & Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue was followed in the videos list by Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure (Thomas Nelson) and Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, LarryBoy and the Bad Apple, Singalong Songs and More, Lessons From the Sock Drawer and Lord of the Beans (all Big Idea/Word). The rest of the top 10 were: 8. The Laurie Berkner Band's We Are...The Laurie Berkner Band (Razor & Tie/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 9. Life at the Pond: There's Something Funny in the Water (Isaac Entertainment/Word); and 10. VeggieTales: The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's (Big Idea/Word).

Following Camp's album were: 2. Greatest Hymns by Selah (Curb Records/Word); 3. Relentless by Natalie Grant (Curb Records/Word); 4. The Best of Ivan Parker by Ivan Parker (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 5. To Know That You're Alive by Kutless (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG); 6. How Can We Be Silent by BarlowGirl (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 7. All That Is Within Me by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. Wow Hits 1 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity); 9. Rock What You Got by Superchick (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); and 10. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity).

The listings for videos, drawn from a national sample of mainstream and Christian store sales, and for music sales solely at Christian stores, are produced for the Christian Music Trade Association by Nielsen SoundScan.