Third Day, 'Star of Christmas' top SoundScan charts |
Sunday, 02 November 2008 07:00 PM America/New_York |
Third Day's Christmas Offerings (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity) atop the SoundScan Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Oct. 26, while The Star of Christmas, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word Distribution) climbed to the top spot of the Christian Videos list. Christmas Offerings and Wow Hits 2009 were followed by: 3. Peace on Earth by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution); 5. Resurrection Letters, Volume II by Andrew Peterson (Centricity Music/Word); 6. I Turn to You by Richie McDonald (Lucid Artist/Lucid Artist); 7. Southern Hospitality by Disciple (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. Building 429 by Building 429 (Word Records/Word); 9. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. What If We by Brandon Heath (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity). After The Star of Christmas, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Premise Media Corporation/EMI CMG); 3. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (Big Idea/Word); 4. Lyle the Kindly Viking, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 6. Gigi's First Day of School, "Gigi, God's Little Princess" series (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 7. Bursting With Readiness, "Gigi, God's Little Princess" series (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 8. In the Presence of Enemies, Bibleman, "PowerSource" series (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 9. Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); and 10. It's Probably Just My Thyroid by Anita Renfroe (Bluebonnet Hills Music/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. |