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Trin-i-tee 5:7 tops SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:21 PM America/New_York
Angel & Chanelle

by Trin-i-tee 5:7 (Music World Entertainment/Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG Distribution) replaced A New Hallelujah by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) atop the SoundScan's Christian/gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending June 5, while The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (Campbell Stone Media/Inspirational Network/Word Distribution) bumped Heroes of the Bible: Lions, Shepherds and Queens, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word) from the top spot on the Christian Videos list.

Following Angel & Chanelle were: 2. A New Hallelujah; 3. The Outsiders by Needtobreathe (Atlantic Records/Word); 4. Blessings by Laura Story (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. I'm Back by Lonnie Hunter (Worldwide Music/E1 Entertainment Distribution); 6. Sacred Love Songs 2 by T.D. Jakes (Dexterity Sounds/Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); 7. Wow Hits 2011 (Wow/EMI CMG); 8. Hundred More Years by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 9. Make It Loud by Martha Munizzi (Say the Name/Central South Distribution/Infinity Music Distribution); and 10. And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG).

After The Pistol, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 3. Lions, Shepherds and Queens; 4. Steve Harvey: Don't Trip... He Ain't Through With Me Yet! (Universal Music Christian Group/EMI CMG); 5. Veggie Classics Triple Feature, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 6. The Ten Commandments (Vivendi Entertainment/EMI CMG); 7. Because He Lives by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. Lyle the Kindly Viking, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 9. Gideon: Tuba Warrior, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); and 10. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/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