Stats:
For the week ending 31st January 2010, here are the stats:
Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 11.25% vs 88.75%
Blu-ray sales total spending: $21.16 million
DVD sales total spending: $167 million
You can read the latest digital edition of HMM (February 8 - 14 Issue) with the above stats here:
Top 10:
Michael Jackson's This Is It is easily this week's number one selling Blu-ray title, beating second place, and also a new release, Surrogates by more than a 3:1 ratio. Saw VI, another new release, was third and sold about half as many as Surrogates. WWII in HD rounded off the new releases in the top 10 at 9th place.
The rest of the top 10 were all previously released titles, and the complete top 10 chart is below:
1. Michael Jackson: This Is It
2. Surrogates
3. Saw VI
4. The Hangover
5. Up
6. Star Trek
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Gamer
9. WWII in HD
10. Inglourious Basterds
Market Share:
Looking at the revenue market share stats above, Blu-ray sales actually feel relative to DVD sales. This is solely due to one title, Michael Jackson's This Is It, whose universal popularity saw the DVD version sell in large numbers, enough to ensure the Blu-ray version doesn't even make the market share top 10 chart. Otherwise, this week had bigger releases than last week but still ended up being one of the better recent weeks for DVD (compared to Blu-ray).
Of the week's other new releases, Surrogates also didn't make the top 10, which is strange because this is the kind of title (Action, Sci-Fi) that Blu-ray buyers usually love. The fact that the Blu-ray version is selling at a high price, on Amazon at least, perhaps has something to do with it. Surrogates has yet to drop below $23.95 on Amazon, and was as high as $25.99 when it first became available for pre-order.
The week's other new release, WWII in HD sold quite well on Blu-ray as expected. In a very strange decision, this title was actually in released on standard definition DVD. Just why a " ... in HD" title was released in SD, you'll have to ask A&E Home Video and the History Channel. In any case, consumers were wise to this confusion and snapped up the one and only true HD version of this " ... in HD" title on Blu-ray, with a massive 57.87% market share. Which still didn't see it top the charts, as it belonged to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with an amazing 63.10% market share. In other words, the Blu-ray version of this movie is almost selling at a 2:1 ratio to the DVD version.
The complete Top 20 best sellers and Blu-ray market share tables can be seen here:
Year to Year Comparison
The stats for the week ending 1st February 2009 are as follows, after being adjusted to the new calculation method (see "Important Note" section in this post) used for the majority of 2009 (original stats can be seen here):
DVD sale was up 7.23% from the same week a year ago, while Blu-ray sales rose by 106.09%.
Blu-ray's market share grew by just over 82% year on year.
For the week ending 31st January 2010, here are the stats:
Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 11.25% vs 88.75%
Blu-ray sales total spending: $21.16 million
DVD sales total spending: $167 million
You can read the latest digital edition of HMM (February 8 - 14 Issue) with the above stats here:
Top 10:
Michael Jackson's This Is It is easily this week's number one selling Blu-ray title, beating second place, and also a new release, Surrogates by more than a 3:1 ratio. Saw VI, another new release, was third and sold about half as many as Surrogates. WWII in HD rounded off the new releases in the top 10 at 9th place.
The rest of the top 10 were all previously released titles, and the complete top 10 chart is below:
1. Michael Jackson: This Is It
2. Surrogates
3. Saw VI
4. The Hangover
5. Up
6. Star Trek
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Gamer
9. WWII in HD
10. Inglourious Basterds
Market Share:
Looking at the revenue market share stats above, Blu-ray sales actually feel relative to DVD sales. This is solely due to one title, Michael Jackson's This Is It, whose universal popularity saw the DVD version sell in large numbers, enough to ensure the Blu-ray version doesn't even make the market share top 10 chart. Otherwise, this week had bigger releases than last week but still ended up being one of the better recent weeks for DVD (compared to Blu-ray).
Of the week's other new releases, Surrogates also didn't make the top 10, which is strange because this is the kind of title (Action, Sci-Fi) that Blu-ray buyers usually love. The fact that the Blu-ray version is selling at a high price, on Amazon at least, perhaps has something to do with it. Surrogates has yet to drop below $23.95 on Amazon, and was as high as $25.99 when it first became available for pre-order.
The week's other new release, WWII in HD sold quite well on Blu-ray as expected. In a very strange decision, this title was actually in released on standard definition DVD. Just why a " ... in HD" title was released in SD, you'll have to ask A&E Home Video and the History Channel. In any case, consumers were wise to this confusion and snapped up the one and only true HD version of this " ... in HD" title on Blu-ray, with a massive 57.87% market share. Which still didn't see it top the charts, as it belonged to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with an amazing 63.10% market share. In other words, the Blu-ray version of this movie is almost selling at a 2:1 ratio to the DVD version.
The complete Top 20 best sellers and Blu-ray market share tables can be seen here:
Year to Year Comparison
The stats for the week ending 1st February 2009 are as follows, after being adjusted to the new calculation method (see "Important Note" section in this post) used for the majority of 2009 (original stats can be seen here):
Originally Posted by Stats for week ending 1st February 2009
Blu-ray's market share grew by just over 82% year on year.
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