Toby Mac, ‘Minnesota Cuke’ top SoundScan charts

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 22 June 2009 02:14 PM America/New_York

Toby Mac's Portable Sounds (ForeFront Records/EMI CMG Distribution) supplanted Australian-based Hillsong United's A Cross the Earth: Tear Down the Walls (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity Distribution) for the top spot of the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending June 14, while Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush (Big Idea/Word Distribution) replaced Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) atop the SoundScan Christian Videos list.

Following Portable Sounds were: 2. A Cross the Earth; 3. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. This Moment: Cinderella Edition by Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 5. In the Hands of God by Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 6. Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity); 7. 10 by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 9. Ending Is Beginning by Downhere (Centricity Records/Word); and 10. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG).

After Minnesota Cuke the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Climb (World Wide Pictures/Wesscott Marketing); 3. Fireproof; 4. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 5. Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 6. Hermie the Common Caterpillar, Hermie & Friends (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 7. Come What May (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 8. Love Takes Wing (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 9. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); and How Great Is Our God?, Louie Giglio (sixstepsrecords/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.