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'Wow Hits 2009,' 'Pirates' top SoundScan charts Print Email
Sunday, 26 October 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

Wow Hits 2009

by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted Casting Crowns' first Christmas album for the top spot of the SoundScan Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Oct. 19, while The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (Big Idea/Word Distribution) remained atop the Christian Videos list.

Wow Hits 2009 was followed by: 2. Peace on Earth by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. I Turn to You by Richie McDonald (Lucid Artist/Lucid Artist); 4. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution); 5. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. Rebel by LeCrae (Reach Records/Central South Distribution); 7. Today Is the Day by Lincoln Brewster (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 8. What If We by Brandon Heath (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. In Christ Alone by Keith and Kristyn Getty (Martingale Records/Kingsway Music); and 10. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity).

After The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Thou Shalt Laugh: The Deuce (Razor & Tie/Provident-Integrity); 3. Bursting With Readiness, "Gigi, God's Little Princess" series (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 4. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 5. Tomato Sawyer & Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 7. The Best of Bananas Comedy Bunch V (Guardian Studios/EMI CMG); 8. How Great Is Our God by Louie Giglio (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 9. It's Probably Just My Thyroid by Anita Renfroe (Bluebonnet Hills Music/Word); and 10. Country Bluegrass Homecoming Volume One by Bill Gaither & The Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/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.