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Monday, 01 June 2009 01:00 AM EDT
Pop band Press Play's Life Is Beautiful (Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG Distribution) supplanted Point of Grace's How You Live (Word Records/Word Distribution) atop the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending May 24, while Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity Distribution) remained in the top spot of the SoundScan Christian Videos list.

Following Life Is Beautiful were: 2. Point of Grace's How You Live; 3. Bishop Eddie L. Long by Bishop Eddie L. Long (Koch Records/Koch Entertainment Distribution); 4. In the Hands of God by Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 5. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 7. Amazing Grace by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. How Great Thou Art by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 9. Alleluia: Songs of Worship by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity).

After Fireproof the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Read and Share DVD Bible Volume 1 by Gwen Ellis (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 3. Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity); 4. VeggieTales: Moe and the Big Exit (Big Idea/Word); 5. The Second Chance (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 6. Love Takes Wing (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 7. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 8. Amazing Grace by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 9. How Great Thou Art by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. Tree of Life, Really Woolly (Flying Rhinoceros/DaySpring).

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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