Christian Album Sales – Week of 5/1/12
May 12, 2012 Leave a comment
Point of Grace’s new album A Thousand Little Things debuts at #186. The female CCM group seems to have peaked about a decade ago, even before losing one of their members a few years ago. Selected chart history for Point of Grace, according to Wikipedia:
The Whole Truth – 1995 – #132 (Gold)
Life Love & Other Mysteries – 1996 (Platinum)
Steady On – 1998 – #24 (Platinum)
Free to Fly – 2001 – #20 (Gold)
I Choose You – 2004 – #85
How You Live – 2007 – #56
No Changin’ Us – 2010 – #60
A Thousand Little Things – 2012 – #186
| Artist | Album | Rk | This Week | Total | Real Total | MS% |
| Laura Story | Blessings | 44 | 10400 | 59000 | 116100+ | |
| Marvin Sapp | I Win | 58 | 7400 | 74700 | 85400 | 87.5% |
| Newsboys | God’s Not Dead | 95 | 4500 | 44300 | 128100 | 34.6% |
| Casting Crowns | Come To The Well | 101 | 4300 | 191300 | 423600 | 45.2% |
| Various | Wow Gospel 2012 | 102 | 4300 | 85000 | 100400 | 84.7% |
| Thousand Foot Krutch | The End Is Where We Begin | 115 | 4000 | 29400 | 33400 | 88.0% |
| Various | Wow Hits 2012 | 133 | 3500 | 98400 | 245400 | 36.0% |
| Various | Joyful Noise | 149 | 3100 | 77600 | 79000+ | 98.3% |
| Trip Lee | Good Life | 155 | 3000 | 29300 | 34900 | 83.9% |
| Alan Jackson | Precious Memories | 164 | 2900 | 26700 | 27500 | 96.8% |
| Point of Grace | A Thousand Little Things | 186 | 2700 | 1400 | 2900 | 49.2% |
| William McDowell | Arise | 190 | 2600 | 90800 | 97100+ | |
| Jamie Grace | One Song At a Time | 198 | 2500 | 42200 | 58200+ | |
| Mandisa | What If We Were Real | 200 | 2500 | 54500 | 105900+ |
(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.)
Wow Gospel 2012 cross the 100,000 mark. Newsboys crosses 125K. Britt Nicole’s new album fell off the charts after selling 25,000. Chris Tomlin’s compilation album fell off again after hitting 150,000.
