‘The Wager’, Chris Tomlin atop SoundScan

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 12 April 2010 02:07 PM America/New_York

The Wager (Pure Flix/Genius Products/EMI CMG Distribution) supplanted The Blind Side (Warner Home Video/Word Distribution/Spring Arbor Distributors) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian Videos list for sales the week ending April 7, while See the Morning by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG) remained atop the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart.

After The Wager, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Read and Share DVD Bible: The Jesus Series-Easter by Gwen Ellis (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 3. Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 4. An Easter Carol, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word); 5. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 6. The Blind Side; 7. Heroes of the Bible! Vol. 3, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word); 8. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 9. God Made You Special, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); and 10. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity Distribution).

Following See the Morning were: 2. Tonight by TobyMac (Forefront Records/EMI CMG); 3. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. Wow Worship (Purple) by various artists (Word Records/Word); 5. Until the While World Hears by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. Somewhere Down The Road by Amy Grant (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 7. Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 8. Awake by Skillet (Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); and 10. Here I Am by Marvin Sapp (Verity Records/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.