Christian Retailing

Casting Crowns, 'Night Before Easter' still atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 28 April 2011 03:05 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 24, while 'Twas the Night Before Easter, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word Distribution) still held 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. Move by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 4. Wow #1s (Word Records/Word); 5. What If We Were Real by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 6. Born Again by the Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 7. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 8. Freedom by Mandisa (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 9. Hello Fear by Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); and 10. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/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 Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 4. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 5. An Easter Carol, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. The Passion of The Christ: Definitive Edition (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 7. Lord of the Beans, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 8. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 9. Like Dandelion Dust (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); and 10. Read and Share DVD Bible: The Jesus SeriesEaster by Gwen Ellis (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson).

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.