Christian Retailing

'Wonder', 'It’s a Meaningful Life' atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 11 October 2010 02:48 PM America/New_York
Michael W. Smith's Wonder (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted Casting Crowns' The Altar and the Door (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity) for the top spot on SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Oct. 3, while the new VeggieTales release It's A Meaningful Life (Big Idea/Word Distribution) replaced Faith Like Potatoes (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity) atop the Christian Videos list.

Following Wonder were: 2. The Altar and the Door; 3. Rehab by LeCrae (Reach Records/Central South Distribution); 4. We Cry Out by Jeremy Camp (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG Distribution); 5. Real Life by Lincoln Brewster (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 6. Count Your Blessings by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 7. Giving Thanks by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. Coffey Anderson by Coffey Anderson (Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); 9.
Love God. Love People. by Israel Houghton (Integrity Music/Columbia Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Third Day Chronology: Volume One by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity).

After It's A Meaningful Life, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Faith Like Potatoes; 3. Giving Thanks by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 4. Count Your Blessings by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 5. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 6. Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart (Big Idea/Word); 7. Holiday Double Feature, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 8. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 9. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Vivendi Entertainment/Universal Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. Letters to God (Possibility Pictures/Vivendi Entertainment/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.