Christian Album Sales – Week of 4/17/12
April 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Thousand Foot Krutch hit a career-best #14 with their new album The End Is Where We Begin. The band has continued to grow bigger with each new release. Here is their selected chart history:
Set It Off – 2001 – N/A
Phenomenon – 2003 – N/A
The Art of Breaking – 2005 – #67
The Flame In All Of Us – 2007 – #58
Welcome to the Masquerade – 2009 – #35 (13,000)
The End Is Where We Begin - 2012 – #14 (23,000)
| Artist | Album | Rk | This Week | Total | Real Total | MS% |
| Thousand Foot Krutch | The End Is Where We Begin | 14 | 23000 | 21000 | 23500 | 90.0% |
| Marvin Sapp | I Win | 41 | 9900 | 60000 | 69700 | 86.7% |
| Newsboys | God’s Not Dead | 51 | 7600 | 42000 | 119000 | 34.9% |
| Trip Lee | Good Life | 71 | 6000 | 24000 | 27800 | 86.6% |
| Laura Story | Blessings | 75 | 5700 | 58000 | 96000+ | |
| Chris Tomlin | How Great Is Our God | 88 | 5100 | 71000 | 152000 | 46.6% |
| Casting Crowns | Come To The Well | 107 | 4100 | 187000 | 414000 | 45.2% |
| Demon Hunter | True Defiance | 109 | 4000 | 15700 | 16900 | 93.0% |
| Maranatha! Praise Band | Top 25 Praise Songs 2012 | 117 | 4000 | 5500 | 54800 | 10.1% |
| Various | Wow Gospel 2012 | 135 | 3500 | 78000 | 93000 | 84.5% |
| Various | Wow Hits 2012 | 138 | 3500 | 95000 | 238000 | 35.6% |
| Alan Jackson | Precious Memories | 139 | 3500 | 21000 | 21600 | 97.3% |
| Britt Nicole | Gold | 145 | 3400 | 13000 | 22900 | 57.4% |
(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.)
The Newsboys album shot up to a better position than its debut week – although the sales weren’t as high. Laura Story’s album shot back onto the chart apparently due to a $5 sale. I don’t have older tracking data for it but its real sales are likely much higher. Chris Tomlin’s “hits” album crosses 150,000. tobyMac’s remix album fell off the top 200 after three weeks and sales of 17,500. Gospel artist Fred Hammond’s album God, Love & Romance dropped off the chart again after 11 weeks and sales of just under 80,000.
