'Ultimate Gift,' Crowns still atop SoundScan charts

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 23 November 2009 02:40 PM America/New_York

Peace on Earth by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) remained atop the SoundScan's Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Nov. 15, while The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word Distribution) continued to hold the top spot of the Christian Videos list.

Following Peace on Earth were: 2. Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Word Records/Word); 3. Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution); 4. Beauty Will Rise by Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 5. Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot (Credential Recordings/EMI CMG); 6. Church Music by David Crowder Band (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 7. It Is Well by Kutless (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG); 8. Awake by Skillet (Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. Memento Mori by Flyleaf (Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); and 10. You Deliver Me by Selah (Curb Records/Word).

After The Ultimate Gift, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Saint Nicholas-A Story of Joyful Giving, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 3. God Made You Special, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 4. Love Finds a Home (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 5. One Night With the King (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 6. Christmas Child (GT Media/EMI CMG); 7. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 8. A Fruitcake Christmas, Hermie & Friends (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 9. The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 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.