Christian Retailing

'Letters to God,' ‘My Paper Heart’ atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 23 August 2010 02:21 PM America/New_York
Letters to God (Possibility Pictures/Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG Distribution) replaced new VeggieTales release Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart (Big Idea/Word Distribution) for the top spot of the Christian Videos list for sales the week ending Aug. 15, while Francesca Battistelli's My Paper Heart (Fervent Records/Word Distribution) remained atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart.

After Letters to God, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Sweetpea Beauty; 3. Rack, Shack & Benny, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 4. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Universal Music Christian Group/Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 5. To Save a Life (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 6. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 7. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 8. Reunited by Gaither Vocal Band (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG ); 9. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); and 10. The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group/Bridgestone Multimedia Group).

Following My Paper Heart were: 2. Greatly Blessed by Gaither Vocal Band (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 3. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 4. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 5. Audience of One by Heather Headley (EMI Gospel/EMI CMG); 6. Until the Whole World Hears by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Wow Hits 2010 (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 8. Wow Worship (Purple) (Word Records/Word); 9. Tonight by TobyMac (Forefront Records/EMI CMG); and Reunited by Gaither Vocal Band (Gaither Music Group/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.