Christian Album Sales – Week of 4/10/12
April 25, 2012 Leave a comment
Trip Lee’s new hip-hop album Good Life debuted at #17 with over 21,000 copies sold. This is a career-best and ties Lecrae’s #17 debut with Rehab in 2010, although Rehab sold over 25,000 copies. Some Trip Lee chart history:
If They Only Knew – 2006 – N/A
20/20 – 2008 – #193
Between Two Worlds – 2010 – #58
Good Life – 2012 – #17 (21,000)
Demon Hunter lands #36 with True Defiance. That is a career-best chart position for the heavy band, but slightly fewer sales than their last one.
Demon Hunter – 2002 – N/A
Summer of Darkness – 2004 – N/A
The Triptych – 2005 – #136
Storm the Gates of Hell – 2007 – #85 (10,000)
The World Is A Thorn – 2010 – #39 (14,000)
True Defiance – 2012 – #36 (12,000)
Desperation Band hits #180 with Center of it All.
| Artist | Album | Rk | This Week | Total | Real Total | MS% |
| Trip Lee | Good Life | 17 | 21738 | 19385 | 21795 | 89.0% |
| Marvin Sapp | I Win | 23 | 15206 | 51412 | 59776 | 86.0% |
| Demon Hunter | True Defiance | 36 | 12495 | 12002 | 12795 | 93.8% |
| Maranatha! Praise Band | Top 25 Praise Songs 2012 | 76 | 5512 | 4291 | 50838 | 8.4% |
| Alan Jackson | Precious Memories | 94 | 4731 | 17643 | 18087 | 97.5% |
| Newsboys | God’s Not Dead | 103 | 4137 | 38466 | 111718 | 34.4% |
| Casting Crowns | Come To The Well | 104 | 4091 | 185111 | 410167 | 45.1% |
| Youthful Praise | After This | 109 | 3931 | 17986 | 22657 | 79.4% |
| Various | Wow Gospel 2012 | 114 | 3817 | 75512 | 89314 | 84.5% |
| Passion | White Flag | 121 | 3623 | 28313 | 69905 | 40.5% |
| Britt Nicole | Gold | 144 | 3239 | 11696 | 19512 | 59.9% |
| Various | Wow Hits 2012 | 146 | 3216 | 93468 | 234684 | 35.5% |
| Fred Hammond | God, Love & Romance | 157 | 3094 | 64920 | 79735 | 81.4% |
| Skillet | Awake | 175 | 2925 | 730252 | 741622 | 89.5% |
| Desperation Band | Center of it All | 180 | 2858 | 1402 | 2889 | 48.5% |
| tobyMac | Dubbed & Freq’d: A Remix Project | 196 | 2716 | 9460 | 17540 | 53.9% |
(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.)
