'Fireproof,' Kari Jobe top SoundScan charts

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 23 February 2009 02:40 PM America/New_York

Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity Distribution) continued to top the SoundScan Christian Videos list for sales the week ending Feb. 15, while Kari Jobe by Kari Jobe (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity) supplanted Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity) for the top spot on the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart.

After Fireproof, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Though None Go With Me (GT Media/EMI CMG Distribution); 3. VeggieTales: Abe and the Amazing Promise (Big Idea/Word Distribution); 4. Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 5. Gaither Vocal Band Reunion Volume One (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 6. The Retrievers (GT Media/EMI CMG); 7. Facing the Giants (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 8. Gaither Vocal Band Reunion Volume Two (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 9. The Adventures of Ociee Nash (Fox Faith/Word); and 10. Bill and Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends: Amazing Grace (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG).

Following Kari Jobe were: 2. Innocence & Instinct by Red (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. Wow Hits 2009; 4. A New Hallelujah by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Speaking Louder Than Before by Jeremy Camp (BEC Recordings/EMI CMG); 8. What If We by Brandon Heath (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); and 10. Gaither Vocal Band Reunion Volume One (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG).

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.