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'Faith Like Potatoes,' Casting Crowns still atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 27 September 2010 03:06 PM America/New_York
The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) remained atop SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Sept. 19, while Faith Like Potatoes (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity) still held the top spot of the Christian Videos list.

After Faith Like Potatoes, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 3. the new VeggieTales release Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart (Big Idea/Word Distribution); 4. Where's God When I'm Scared?, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Holiday Double Feature, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. Amish Grace (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); 7. Letters to God (Possibility Pictures/Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 8. Sleepytime Lullabies, "The Praise Baby Collection" (Big House Kids/Provident-Integrity); 9. To Save a Life (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity).

Following The Altar and the Doo were: 2. Horseshoes & Handgrenades by Disciple (Columbia Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. Refreshed by Fire by Shekinah Glory Ministry (Kingdom Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 4. Love God. Love People. by Israel Houghton (Integrity Music/Columbia Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. We Cry Out by Jeremy Camp (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG); 6. Live from Los Angeles by Beverly Crawford (JDI Records/Universal/EMI CMG); 7. Better Days by Jonathan Nelson (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 8. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 9. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); and 10. Pieces of a Real Heart by Sanctus Real (Sparrow Records/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.