Christian Retailing

Comedian, ‘Over and Underneath’ atop SoundScan Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 19 April 2010 02:30 PM America/New_York
This Ain't Prettyville by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity Distribution) supplanted The Wager (Pure Flix/Genius Products/EMI CMG Distribution) for the top spot of SoundScan's Christian Videos list for sales the week ending April 14, while Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity) replaced See the Morning by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG) atop the Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart.

After This Ain't Prettyville, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Heroes of the Bible! Vol. 3, VeggieTales (Big Idea Productions/Word Distribution); 3. Extraordinary Women: A Woman's Prayer Life by Beth Moore (Word Entertainment/Word); 4. Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Did I Say That Out Loud? by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity); 6. The Blind Side (Warner Home Video/Word/Spring Arbor Distributors); 7. Israel Homecoming by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 8. Jerusalem by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 9. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word); and 10. Here I Am by Marvin Sapp (Verity Records/Provident-Integrity).

Following Over and Underneath were: 2. Tonight by TobyMac (Forefront Records/EMI CMG); 3. Smokie Norful Presents: Victory Cathedral Choir by Smokie Norful (EMI Gospel/EMI CMG); 4. Until the While World Hears by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 5. Wow Worship (Purple) by various artists (Word Records/Word); 6. Awake by Skillet (Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 8. Church Music by David Crowder Band (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 9. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); and 10. Somewhere Down The Road by Amy Grant (Sparrow Records/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.