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Casting Crowns, ‘Gifted Hands’ atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 03 March 2011 02:47 PM America/New_York
The Altar and the Door

by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) replaced Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity) atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Feb. 20, while Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity) bumped Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity) for the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following The Altar and the Door were: 2. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 3. Revelation; 4. Aftermath by Hillsong United (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 5. Church Music by David Crowder Band (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 6. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 7. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 8. The Generous Mr. Lovewell by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. Until We Have Faces by Red (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); and 10. It Is Well by Kutless (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG).

After Gifted Hands, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Fireproof; 3. Alaskan Homecoming by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 4. Majesty by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 5. An Easter Carol, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word Distribution); 6. Like Dandelion Dust (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 7. God Made You Special, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 8. Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ (Thomas Nelson); 9. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Lost World Pictures/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); and 10. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity).

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.