Christmas sales continued to dominate last week, along with the beginning of an uptick in previously popular albums that we typically begin to see towards the end of the year heading into Christmas season. Chris Tomlin’s “greatest hits” album debuts at #40 – which is actually kinda bad for Chris Tomlin these days. I guess a lot of people already have all his albums. Here is a quick summary of Chris Tomlin’s charting albums:
Arriving – 2004 – #39
See The Morning – 2006 – #15
Hello Love – 2008 – #8
Glory In The Highest – 2009 – #19
And If Our God Is For Us – 2010 – #17
How Great Is Our God – 2011 – #40
The only other notable new release was by Newsboys, with a new worship album called God’s Not Dead. It didn’t sell nearly as well as their last album Born Again, which was the first album with “new” frontman Tait and the band’s best-selling debut in their two-decade career. I’m guessing most fans didn’t really consider the “worship” album like a regular album, or maybe it wasn’t marketed as much; I barely even knew it was being released. It also may reflect a bit of “worship fatigue” as the album performed worse than the band’s previous two “worship” albums.
Here is a quick summary of all the Newsboys albums that have made the Billboard 200:
Take Me To Your Leader – 1996 – #35
Step Up To The Microphone – 1998 – #61
Love Liberty Disco – 1999 – #80
Thrive – 2002 – #38
Adoration – 2003 – #33
Devotion – 2004 – #61
GO – 2006 – #51
In The Hands of God – 2009 – #28
Born Again – 2010 – #4
God’s Not Dead – 2011 – #63
Here are my selected sales of Billboard 200 albums sold in Christian outlets:
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