11/29/09 historical data

Top 20 Sellers and Top 20 Blu-ray for week ending 11/29/09

(Black Friday week)

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Identifiable Blu-ray Unit Sales for the Week Ended  

Estimates of Blu-ray units sold by title by two methods:

BD#Index is the estimate of units sold per title based on the index numbers on the Blu-ray Disc Top 20 chart.  Each title units are estimated based on its Index number as a percentage to the #1 bestselling Blu-ray title. 

BD#BD% is the estimate of units sold per title based on the Blu-ray marketshare off the Top 20 Sellers chart or the BD Title Share chart computed against the DVD units sales per title reported each week on the-numbers.com US DVD Sales Chart.  


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TOP DVD SALES - Week Ending 29 November 2009 

1 2 3 UP Animated 1.280.000 7.582.000 
2 RE 19 THE DARK KNIGHT Christian Bale, Michael Caine 1.192.000 18.474.000 
3 NE 1 ANGELS & DEMONS Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor 1.040.000 1.040.000 
4 NE 1 SANTA BUDDIES: THE LEGEND OF SANTA PAWS Animated 975.000 975.000 
5 1 2 STAR TREK Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto 864.000 6.014.000 
6 NE 1 FOUR CHRISTMASES Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon 747.000 747.000 
7 RE 13 MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Animated 554.000 8.190.000 
8 RE 11 ELF Will Ferrell, Andy Richter 475.000 8.240.000 
9 RE 16 SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall   461.000 6.170.000 
10 RE 7 PAUL BLART: MALL COP Kevin James, Jayma Mays 388.000 3.860.000 
11 RE 18 HAPPY FEET Animated 372.000 14.180.000 
12 RE 7 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL Jason Segel, Kristen Bell   351.000 2.120.000 
13 RE 37 TRANSFORMERS Shia LaBoeuf, Tyrese Gibson 336.000 18.270.000 
14 16 26 THE POLAR EXPRESS Tom Hanks 303.000 13.822.000 
15 RE 12 THE HOLIDAY Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet 297.000 5.050.000 
16 14 9 MONSTERS VS. ALIENS Animated 292.000 4.996.000 
17 RE 6 BABY MAMA Tina Fey, Amy Poehler 283.000 1.715.000 
18 RE 24 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Animated 239.000 7.410.000 
19 RE 29 THE NOTEBOOK Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams 230.000 10.680.000 
20 3 2 MY SISTER'S KEEPER Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin 205.000 683.000 

The Only Way Is 'Up' 

"Up" returns to the top this week, the third DVD to do so this year, after "Madagascar 2" and "Marley & Me". With total sales of 7.5 million in 3 weeks, "Up" is the 4th biggest selling DVD of 2009 (coming soon: the annual 2009 DVD chart). Historically, during the week of Black Friday, the DVD and blu-ray sales are high. According to VideoScan, more than 25 million units were sold last week. The number of re-entries this week (12) was the highest since the Black Friday of 2007 (12) and the Black Friday of 2005 (also 12). "The Dark Knight" and "Transformers" become the 4th and the 5th DVD titles respectively to surpass the 18-million mark in the history of the DVD format. Only "Finding Nemo", "Pirates Of The Caribbean 1" and "Shrek 2" have sold more units. To see how popular is the first "Transformers", the sequel is already out of the chart this week (after 5 weeks) while the first movie spends its 37th week in the top twenty. 

"The Dark Knight" scores the 3rd highest re-entry of the year at #2 this week. Earlier this year "Pinocchio" and "Snow White" re-entered the VS chart at #1. "The Wizard Of Oz" also re-entered the chart at number two. It's the fastest selling DVD (18 million units in 11 months) since "Shrek 2" in 2004-05. "Finding Nemo" remains the fastest selling DVD ever of course. 

"Angels & Demons" opens at #3 with 1 million units. "The DaVinci Code" opened at #1 with 3 million in November 2006, so the sales of "Angels" are rather disappointing. 

UPDATE ALERT: If you live in Europe you may have a problem to understand how popular is "The Notebook" in America. The fact that the DVD has spent 29 weeks in the Top 20 says it all. Its total sales of 10.6 million make the DVD title one of the biggest surprises in the history of the format. Clearly, Americans love the movie (and the book too). 

Next week, the "Night at the Museum" sequel poised to hit the #1 spot on the VS chart. It will exterminate the new "Terminator" movie.

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Last edited by Kosty : 05-03-2010 at 07:20 PM.