'New Hallelujah' tops SoundScan Print
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 09 June 2011 02:35 PM America/New_York
A New Hallelujah

by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) replaced One True God by NewSong (HHM Records/EMI CMG Distribution) atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending May 29, while Heroes of the Bible! Lions, Shepherds and Queens, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word Distribution) still held the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following A New Hallelujah were: 2. Blessings by Laura Story (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. Move by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. Listen to the Sound by Building 429 (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. What If We Were Real by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 6. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 7. Make It Loud by Martha Munizzi (Say the Name/Central South Distribution/Infinity Music Distribution); 7. Hundred More Years by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 8. The Light Meets the Dark by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Horseshoes & Handgrenades by Disciple (INO Records/Provident-Integrity).

After Lions, Shepherds and Queens, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 3. The Ten Commandments (Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 4. Veggie Classics Triple Feature, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Lyle the Kindly Viking, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. Gideon: Tuba Warrior, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 7. The Book of Ruth (Pure Flix Entertainment); 8. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 9. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Bridgestone Multimedia Group); and The Courage to Love (GT Media/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.