Christian Album Sales – Week of 1/3/12

Nothing new on the charts last week, although Switchfoot and Skillet made it back into the Billboard 200. We look forward to seeing David Crowder Band’s last album on the next chart.

Artist	Album	Rk	This Week	Total	Real Total	MS%
Susan Boyle	Someone To Watch Over Me	55	8,298	486,371	493,577	98.5%
Casting Crowns	Come To The Well	84	5,896	140,833	328,308	42.9%
Various	Wow Hits 2012	86	5,731	61,610	170,532	29.6%
Chris Tomlin	How Great Is Our God	88	5,562	39,074	99,340	39.3%
Skillet	Awake	128	3,716	678,062	682,882	92.4%
Switchfoot	Vice Verses	180	3,288	87,053	124,976	69.6%

(For whatever reason, Soundscan includes sales from Christian outlets in their weekly totals that determine the Billboard 200 chart positions, but they don’t include them in their reported totals. So I just add up all the weekly totals and compare them to the reported totals to see how many sales are missing from Christian outlets.)

I don’t have the whole sales history for Skillet’s Awake, and their real total is probably easily over 700,000 if not 750,000. Casting Crowns’s latest is well over 300,000 in real sales, and Chris Tomlin’s compilation album should cross the 100,000 mark next week.