…hold the top three positions, respectively, on Billboard’s Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week.
Billboard reports that Sapp’s Here I Am (Verity) is the first gospel album to reach the Top 10 in sales since Mary Mary’s The Sound (Sony) did so in November 2008.
Congratulations to Pastor Sapp on his continued success! Let’s hope this is a sign of a comeback in gospel music sales, as well.
Read more from the New York Times: “Chart Gets Religion”
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