Top selling Christian records
The list below charts a number of well known, and not so well known, bands and how their singles and albums have charted. I’ve started with the number two, tomorrow I’ll submit the number one Christian band of all time. Any guesses???
At the top of today’s list is a single from 1967. “Oh Happy Day” is a traditional hymn recorded with a black gospel/soul slant. Recorded on a simple two-track stereo, only five hundred copies were produced as a church fund raiser. After receiving airplay on a local San Francisco, the choir was signed for national distribution. The rest, as they say, is history. The single went on to be the most popular of all Christian releases.
Edwin Hawkins Singers | “Oh Happy Day” (single) | over 7 million |
Jars Of Clay | self-titled album (includes “Flood”) | over 4 million |
Owl City | “Fireflies” single | over 4 million |
P.O.D. | Satellite (album) | over 3 million |
The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown (album) | over 1 million | |
MercyMe | Spoken (album) | over 3 million |
dc Talk | Jesus Freak (album) | over 2 million |
Supernatural (album) | over 1 million | |
The Fray | How to Save a Life(album) | over 2 million |
Switchfoot | The Beautiful Letdown (album) | over 2 million |
five additional albums | over 500,000 | |
Third Day | Live Wire (album) | over 1 million |
Offerings (album) | over 1 million | |
numerous albums | over 500,00 | |
Flyleaf | self-titled (album) | over 1 million |
All Around Me (Single) | over 1 million | |
Bruce Cockburn | Dancing In The Dragons Jaws (album) | over 1 million |
Stealing Fire (album) | over 1 million | |
Waiting For A Miracle (album) | over 1 million | |
Stryper | To Hell With The Devil (album) | over 1 million |
Live in Japan (video) | over 1 million | |
three additional albums | over 500,000 | |
Paramore | The Only Exception (single) | over 1 million |
Misery Business (single) | over 1 million | |
Sixpence None the Richer | self-titled (album) | over 1 million |
Skillet | two gold albums | over 500,000 |
MxPx | Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo (album) | over 500,000 |
newsboys | five gold albums | over 500,000 |
Underoath | Define the Great Line (album) | over 500,000 |
Petra | Petra Praise and Beyond Belief (albums) | both over 500,000 |
Delirious? | The Cutting Edge (album) | over 500,000 |
As I Lay Dying | This Is Who We Are (album) | over 500,000 |
Plus One | The Promise (album) | over 500,000 |
Keith Green | The Ministry Years (album) | over 500,000 |
Relient K | five albums | over 500,000 |
tobyMac | three albums | over 500,000 |