Christian Retailing

Casting Crowns, 'Faith Like Potatoes' atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 13 September 2010 02:35 PM America/New_York
The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) replaced We Cry Out by Jeremy Camp (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG Distribution) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Sept. 5, while Faith Like Potatoes (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity) took over for the new VeggieTales release Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart (Big Idea/Word Distribution) atop the Christian Videos list.

Following The Altar and the Door were: 2. Love God. Love People. by Israel Houghton (Integrity Music/Columbia Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. We Cry Out; 4. Pieces of a Real Heart by Sanctus Real (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 5. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. NY2LA by Press Play (Universal Music Christian Group/Dream Records/EMI CMG); 7. Third Day Chronology: Volume One by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. The Master Plan by Tamela Mann (Tilly Mann Music Group/Infinity Music Distribution); 9. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); and 10. No Changin' Us by Point of Grace (Word Records/Word).

After Faith Like Potatoes, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 3. Sweetpea Beauty; 4. A Snoodle's Tale, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Holiday Double Feature, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. Letters to God (Possibility Pictures/Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 7. Lyle the Kindly Viking, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 8. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 9. The Retrievers (GT Media/EMI CMG); and 10. Though None Go With Me (GT Media/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.