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Jeremy Camp, 'Sweetpea Beauty' atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 09 September 2010 03:11 PM America/New_York
We Cry Out: The Worship Project by Jeremy Camp (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG Distribution) replaced Francesca Battistelli's My Paper Heart (Fervent Records/Word Distribution) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Aug. 29, while new VeggieTales release Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart (Big Idea/Word Distribution) remained atop the Christian Videos list.

Following We Cry Out were: 2. Love Revolution by Natalie Grant (Curb Records/Word); 3. NY2LA by Press Play (Dream Records/Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); 4. My Paper Heart; 5. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 6. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 7. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 8. Women of Faith Worship by Women of Faith Worship Team (Women of Faith/Thomas Nelson); 9. A Tribute to George Younce by Gaither Vocal Band (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. Pieces of a Real Heart by Sanctus Real (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG).

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

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.