Christian Album Sales – Week of 3/6/12
March 16, 2012 Leave a comment
We’ve got a break from the CCM and gospel dominance this week. Fireflight debuts at #51 with their latest album, their best ever. Here is the female rock band’s chart history:
Unbreakable – 2008 – N/A
For Those Who Wait – 2010 – #96
Now – 2012 – #51
Rapper Flame also debuts at #67. As best I can tell Flame’s albums have been hitting the Christian charts for many years but this is his first to debut in the overall Top 200.
Also, last week I missed the debut from Kutless at #36, their first album inside the top 40 after ten years of work. Kutless’s charting history:
Kutless – 2002
Sea of Faces – 2004 – #97
Strong Tower – 2005 – #87
Hearts of the Innocent – 2006 – #45
To Know That You’re Alive – 2008 – #64
It Is Well – 2009 – #42
Believer – 2012 – #36 (14,000)
| Artist | Album | Rk | This Week | Total | Real Total | MS% |
| Fireflight | Now | 51 | 8494 | 5814 | 8551 | 68.0% |
| Flame | 6th | 67 | 7406 | 6315 | 7517 | 84.0% |
| Andrea Helms | Moving Forward | 77 | 6469 | 3602 | 6503 | 55.4% |
| Various | Wow Gospel 2012 | 85 | 5915 | 57357 | 67599 | 84.8% |
| Maranatha! Praise Band | Top 25 Praise Songs 2012 | 88 | 5852 | 3704 | 6358 | 58.3% |
| MercyMe | The Generous Mr. Lovewell | 91 | 5646 | 133558 | 158300 | |
| Casting Crowns | Come To The Well | 93 | 5626 | 171206 | 384455 | 44.5% |
| Newsboys | God’s Not Dead | 106 | 4932 | 29847 | 84634 | 35.3% |
| Fred Hammond | God, Love & Romance | 112 | 4555 | 50461 | 63122 | 79.9% |
| Various | Wow Hits 2012 | 119 | 4346 | 83391 | 214955 | 33.9% |
| Skillet | Awake | 131 | 4060 | 713329 | 722450 | 89.7% |
| Kutless | Believer | 133 | 4035 | 9179 | 17762 | 51.7% |
| Kari Jobe | Where I Find You | 153 | 3665 | 31550 | 56598 | 55.7% |
| Le’Andria Johnson | The Evolution of Le’Andria Johnson | 161 | 3453 | 23143 | 25045 | 92.4% |
| James Fortune & Fiya | Identity | 174 | 3179 | 51244 | 72377 | 70.8% |
| William McDowell | Arise | 177 | 3165 | 72644 | 78247 | 92.8% |
| Lecrae | Rehab | 193 | 2982 | 155287 | 162627 | |
| Chris Tomlin | How Great Is Our God | 197 | 2972 | 57486 | 131264 | 43.8% |
(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.)
Casting Crowns is sailing past 380,000 copies of their latest. Newsboys may hit 100,000 soon with theirs. Lecrae’s Rehab sneaks back into the chart this week, although I haven’t been following it long enough to know what its true sales might be.
