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Monday, 11 May 2009 02:27 PM EDT

altPoint of Grace's How You Live (Word Records/Word Distribution) supplanted MercyMe's "best of" album 10 (INO Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) for the top spot on the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending May 3, while Chonda Pierce's Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity) remained atop of the SoundScan Christian Videos list for the second week in a row.

Following How You Live were: 2. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 3. The Long Fall Back to Earth by Jars of Clay (Essential Records/Gray Matters/Provident-Integrity); 4. Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity); 5. A New Hallelujah by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. True Beauty by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 7. This Moment: Cinderella Edition by Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 8. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); and 10. 10 by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity).

After Stayin' Alive ... Laughing!, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 3. Read and Share DVD Bible Volume 1 By Gwen Ellis (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 4. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 5. Tree of Life, Really Woolly (Flying Rhinoceros/DaySpring); 6. The Second Chance (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 7. A Gospel Journey by The Oak Ridge Boys (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. This Ain't Prettyville by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity); 9. VeggieTales: Abe and the Amazing Promise (Big Idea/Word); and 10. One Night With the King (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/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.

 

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