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Kari Jobe, ‘Case for Christ’ still atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:00 PM America/New_York
Kari Jobe

by Kari Jobe (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity Distribution) continued to hold the top spot of the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Jan. 9, while Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ (Thomas Nelson) remained atop the Christian Videos list.

Following Kari Jobe were: 2. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution); 3. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 4. I Believe: Live by James Fortune & FIYA (Worldwide Music/E1 Entertainment Distribution); 5. We All Are One: Live in Detroit by Donnie McClurkin (Verity Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. Passion: Awakening by various artists/Passion Band (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 7. Greater Mt. Calvary "Live" by Greater Mt. Calvary Music Ministry (Calvary Records); 8. Move by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. Rehab by LeCrae (Reach Records/Central South Distribution/Infinity Music Distribution); and 10. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG).

After The Case for Christ, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 3. The Christmas Child (GT Media/EMI CMG); 4. Walk the Walk: 1 & 2 Mile, Leslie Sansone (GT Media/EMI CMG); 5. He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley (Spring House Music Group/EMI CMG); 6. Silly Little Thing Called Love, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word Distribution); 7. Holiday Pack, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 8. The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's (Big Idea/Word); 9. Giving Thanks by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. It's a Meaningful Life, VeggieTales (Big Idea/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.