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Third Day, VeggieTales top SoundScan lists Print Email
Sunday, 17 August 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

Third Day's Revelation (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution) continued at No. 1 on SoundScan's Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Aug. 10, while VeggieTales' Tomato Sawyer & Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (Big Idea/Word Distribution) continued at the top of the Christian Videos chart.

After making its debut at No. 1 last week, Revelation remains there, followed by: 2. This Is Our God by Hillsong (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 3. Greatest Hymns by Selah (Curb Records/Word); 4. How Sweet the Sound: My All-Time Favorites by George Beverly Shea (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 5. All That Is Within Me by MercyMe (INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. This Moment by Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG Distribution); 7. How Can We Be Silent, by BarlowGirl (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); 8. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 9. A Dream to Believe In, Volume 2 by Nicole C. Mullen (Word Records/Word); and 10. Arriving by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG).

After the VeggieTales release, the leading DVDs were: 2. The Best of Bananas Comedy Bunch V (Guardian Studios/EMI CMG); 3. Then Sings My Soul by George Beverly Shea (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 4. Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 5. How Great Is Our God by Louie Giglio (sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 6. LarryBoy and the Bad Apple (Big Idea/Word); 7. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (Big Idea/Word); 8. It's Probably Just My Thyroid by Anita Renfroe (Bluebonnet Hills Music/Word); 9. Singalong Songs and More (Big Idea/Word); and 10. Love's Enduring Promise (Fox Faith/Word).

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.