Christian music powerhouse Casting Crowns wraps the year with an unparalleled impact in Christian music, securing the No.1 top-selling album of 2007, a seventh No.1 radio hit and the highest-grossing tour in Christian music with $4.4 million in ticket sales.
The Altar and the Door stands as the No.1 album of the year according to SoundScan's Christian/Gospel year-end chart (week ending 12/9) with more than 450,000 units sold since debuting at No. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 chart with historic first-week sales of 130,000 (Sept.2).The RIAA Gold album spent 11 weeks in the No.1 slot on the Top Christian Albums chart and held 13 weeks at No.1 on iTunes.
Incredibly, all three of the band's albums rank in the top 25 for 2007, with Lifesong at No.11 and Casting Crowns at No. 22 on the year-end sales chart. Casting Crowns is the only artist with multiple projects in the year's top rankings.