Hillsong, ‘Fireproof’ still atop SoundScan charts

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 15 June 2009 01:57 PM America/New_York

Australian-based Hillsong United's A Cross the Earth: Tear Down the Walls (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity Distribution) remained in the top spot of the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending June 7, while Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) continued atop the SoundScan Christian Videos list.

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

After Fireproof the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush (Big Idea/Word); 3. The Climb (World Wide Pictures/Wesscott Marketing); 4. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 5. The Second Chance (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 6. Tree of Life, Really Woolly (Flying Rhinoceros/DaySpring); 7. Love Takes Wing (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 8. Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity); 9. Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity).

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.