After a hiatus and period of restoration, hip-hop artist The Ambassador returns to the gospel marketplace with Stop the Funeral to solid sales and a #6 debut on Billboard’s Gospel Albums chart.  Congrats!

Also, after two weeks at #2, Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear regains its #1 position, and Earnest Pugh’s Earnestly Yours falls to #2, followed by Mary Mary’s Something Big at #3.

Trin-i-tee 5:7′s latest project falls from #3 to #7 this week and Times of Refreshing, by Pastor James R. Adams jumps from #17 to #4.

The full Top 10 is right here:

1 | Kirk Franklin – Hello Fear
2 | Earnest Pugh – Earnestly Yours
3 | Mary Mary – Something Big
4 | Pastor James R. Adams – Times of Refreshing
5 | WOW Gospel 2011
6 | The Ambassador – Stop the Funeral
7 | Trin-i-tee 5:7 – Angel & Chanelle
8 | Lecrae – Rehab
9 | Tedashii – Blacklight
10 | Deitrick Haddon – Church on the Moon

As I mentioned last week, I’m very interested to see where Richard Smallwood lands on the charts this coming week. If you haven’t already gotten the album, check out my review and listen to the snippets to see if you wanna grab it!