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Casting Crowns, 'Night Before Easter' atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 25 April 2011 02:05 PM America/New_York
Until the Whole World Hears

by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) remained atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending April 17, while 'Twas the Night Before Easter, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word Distribution) replaced The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity) for the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following Until the Whole World Hears were: 2. Hundred More Years by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 3. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 4. Blessings by Laura Story (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. What If We Were Real by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 6. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 7. Freedom by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 8. Hello Fear by Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 9. Wow #1s (Word Records/Word); and 10. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG).

After 'Twas the Night Before Easter, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; 4. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 5. An Easter Carol, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. Like Dandelion Dust (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 7. The Best of David Phelps by David Phelps (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. Lord of the Beans, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 9. A Tribute to The Cathedral Quartet by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. What if... (PureFlix Entertainment).

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.