Christian Retailing

‘Wow Hits,’ ‘King’ top SoundScan charts Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 26 October 2009 02:31 PM America/New_York
One Night With the King (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word Distribution) supplanted Saint Nicholas-A Story of Joyful Giving, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian Videos list for sales the week ending Oct. 18, while Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Word Records/Word) remained atop the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart.

Following Wow Hits 2010 were: 2. Awake by Skillet (Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 3. Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution); 4. Hope Rising by Fee (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. Church Music by David Crowder Band (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 6. Building 429 by Building 429 (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Fearless by Phillips, Craig & Dean (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. Portable Sounds by Toby Mac (ForeFront Records/EMI CMG); 9. Kari Jobe by Kari Jobe (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); and 10. You Deliver Me by Selah (Curb Records/Word).

After One Night With the King and Saint Nicholas, the best-selling DVDs were: 3. Skeeter and the Mystery of the Lost Mosquito Treasure, Hermie & Friends (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 4. How Great Is Our God, Louie Giglio (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 5. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 6. Nashville Homecoming by Bill Gaither & Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 7. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 8. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 9. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/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.