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Chris Tomlin, sports film top SoundScan charts Print Email
Sunday, 14 September 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

Chris Tomlin's Hello Love (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution) debuted on the top spot of SoundScan's Christian/Gospel music Christian retail chart for sales the week ending Sept. 7, while the inspiring women's basketball movie Believe in Me by GT Media (EMI CMG) remained atop the Christian Videos best-sellers list.

Following Tomlin's fifth studio project were: 2. Broken & Beautiful by Mark Schultz (Word Records/Word Distribution): 3. Revelation by Third Day (Essential Records/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 3. Daylight Is Coming by Remedy Drive (Word Records/Word); 4. This Is Our God by Hillsong (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 5. What If We by Brandon Heath (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 6. Greatest Hymns by Selah (Curb Records/Word); 7. The Altar and the Door by Casting Crowns (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity); 8. Dance or Die by Family Force 5 (Transparent Media Group/EMI CMG); 9. Relentless by Natalie Grant (Curb Records/Word); and 10. Wow Hits 1 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity).

After Believe in Me, the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Lambasting the Legions of Laziness, Bibleman, "PowerSource" series (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 3. King George and the Ducky (with 3-2-1 Penguins! bonus episode), VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 4. Tomato Sawyer & Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); 5. Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 6. Country Bluegrass Homecoming Volume One by Bill Gaither & The Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 7. Max Lucado's Wemmicks: You Are Special (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 8. Country Bluegrass Homecoming Volume Two by Bill Gaither & The Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); 9. The Little Things, Life at the Pond (Isaac Entertainment/Word); and 10. Hermie and the High Seas, Hermie & Friends (Thomas 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.