Casting Crowns named as best selling Christian act of the year

POP ROCKERS Casting Crowns have the best selling Christian music album of 2007 and the highest grossing tour in Christian music history ($4.4 million in ticket sales). 'The Altar And The Door' stands as the number one album of the year according to SoundScan's Christian/Gospel year-end chart (week ending 9th December) with more than 450,000 units sold since debuting at number two on Billboard's Top 200 chart with historic first-week sales of 130,000 (2nd September). The RIAA Gold album spent 11 weeks in the number one slot on the Top Christian Albums chart and held 13 weeks at number one on iTunes. All three of the band's albums rank in the top 25 for 2007, with 'Lifesong' at number 11 and 'Casting Crowns' at number 22 on the year-end sales chart. Casting Crowns is the only artist with multiple projects in the year's top rankings.