Christian Album Sales – Week of 5/8/12
May 25, 2012 Leave a comment
Gospel duo Mary Mary is still at it, and while Go Get It is not a career-best for them it still shows them holding a strong place in the “urban contemporary gospel” scene. It also sounds like this was not a completely new album like last year’s which hit #10, but contains some remixes and remasters, and these are pretty good numbers for that kind of album. Selected discography for Mary Mary:
Thankful – 2000 – #59
Incredible – 2002 – #20
Mary Mary – 2005 – #8
The Sound – 2008 – #7
Something Big – 2011 – #10 (42,000)
Go Get It - 2012 – #16 (19,000)
| Mary Mary | Go Get It | 16 | 19000 | 18000 | 19000 | 93.5% |
| Laura Story | Blessings | 30 | 13000 | 60000 | 129000+ | |
| Casting Crowns | Come To The Well | 44 | 10000 | 194000 | 434000 | 44.7% |
| Marvin Sapp | I Win | 58 | 7800 | 82000 | 93000 | 87.8% |
| Chris Tomlin | And If Our God Is For Us… | 79 | 6000 | 186000 | 196000+ | |
| Mandisa | What If We Were Real | 89 | 5500 | 55000 | 111000+ | |
| Various | Wow Gospel 2012 | 98 | 4900 | 89000 | 105000 | 84.7% |
| Michael W. Smith | Decades of Worship | 99 | 4800 | 8100 | 8100+ | |
| Newsboys | God’s Not Dead | 101 | 4800 | 46000 | 133000 | 34.3% |
| Various | Wow Hits 2012 | 111 | 4400 | 101000 | 250000 | 36.2% |
| Various | Joyful Noise | 112 | 4400 | 82000 | 83000 | 98.3% |
| Alan Jackson | Precious Memories | 138 | 3600 | 30000 | 31000 | 96.9% |
| Michael W. Smith | Glory | 147 | 3500 | 23000 | 62000+ | |
| Francesca Battistelli | Hundred More Years | 149 | 3400 | 68000 | 75000+ | |
| Matthew West | The Story of Your Life | 155 | 3400 | 50000 | 59000+ | |
| Thousand Foot Krutch | The End Is Where We Begin | 158 | 3300 | 32000 | 37000+ | 87.0% |
| Chris Tomlin | How Great Is Our God | 184 | 2900 | 75000 | 160000 | 46.8% |
| Nicole C. Mullen | Ultimate Collection | 185 | 2900 | 8500 | 14000+ |
(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.)
There were a lot of CCM albums that reappeared on the chart last week. I don’t know if there were more sales going on or if it was a Mother’s Day effect.
