Nielsen VideoScan/Home Media Magazine: Blu-ray/DVD/HD DVD Stats (Updated Weekly)

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Stats:

For the week ending 19th December 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 39.79% vs 60.21%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $105.50 million
DVD sales total spending: $159.63 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Blu-ray revenue reached a 2015 high, thanks to still strong sales of 'Minions', and the release of three popular titles. And with Christmas in mind, sales were also high (as is the case every year at this time).

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
and Ted 2 were in the 2nd to 4th place, while the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four was also new, in 8th place.

That was it for new releases in the top 20 though, but it was enough to turn this week's Blu-ray revenue into one of the highest ever (although it's still not quite at the record levels achieved during the same week in 2013).

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Minions
2. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
3. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
   
4. Ted 2
5. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
6. Ant-Man
7. Inside Out
8. Fantastic Four
9. Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy
10. Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

The new Mission Impossible movie managed a BD sales share of 63.83%, which was the highest for the week. The new Fantastic Four managed 51.88%, while 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' was only slightly behind at 50.71%. 'Ted 2' managed 48.43%.

None of these new releases were available on Blu-ray 3D.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 20th December 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 32.49% vs 67.51%

Blu-ray: $99.62 million
DVD: $207.04 million

Blu-ray sales increased by $5.88m (up 5.9%), while DVD sales decreased by $47.41m (down 22.9%) producing $41.53 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 32.49% to 39.79%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 12th December 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 40.59% vs 59.41%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $87.66 million
DVD sales total spending: $128.33 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Two A-list titles (one a bit more A-listy than the other) helped Blu-ray revenue rise to nearly $80 million, and for weekly Blu-ray market share to go above 40%.

The two titles were Minions and the slightly less popular Ant-Man, which sold roughly half as many copies as the animated hit.

The only other new release fell outside of the top 10, at 17th place for The Transporter Refueled.

But the two mega-hits, and also the Star Wars fever helping to make all of the Star Wars box sets appear in the top 10, helped the Blu-ray results for the week to be one of the best for the year as we get down to the business end of the year in terms of disc sales.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Minions
2. Ant-Man
3. Inside Out
4. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
5. Jurassic World
6. Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy
7. Star Wars: The Complete Saga
8. *Aladdin
9. Avengers: Age of Ultron
10. Home Alone

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

'Minions' had the best BD sales share, with 62.69%, closely followed by 'Ant-Man' with 62.51%. 'The Transporter Refueled' managed 34%.

Both 'Minions' and 'Ant-Man' were available on 3D as well, with BD3D sales share of 27.51% (!) for Ant-Man, but only 3% (!) for Minions. The price differential between the standard 2D version and the 3D versions of these films (just $2 for Ant-Man at one point, compared to around $7-9 for Minions) may be responsible for the BD3D sales share difference.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 13th December 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 34.97% vs 65.03%

Blu-ray: $86.79 million
DVD: $161.42 million

It's official, Minions and Ant-Man can't beat Guardians of the Galaxy, at least not on DVD. An "all red" week avoided thanks to DVD revenue falling faster than Blu-ray's (and thus, ensuring Blu-ray market share was up).

Blu-ray sales decreased by $0.87m (down 1%), while DVD sales decreased by $33.09m (down 20.5%) producing $33.96 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 34.97% to 40.59%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 5th December 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 34.75% vs 65.25%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $58.04 million
DVD sales total spending: $108.97 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

The Black Friday sales are over, but the week ending the 5th December does include the Cyber Monday sales, and this is perhaps why Blu-ray revenue remained at a relatively high $58.04 million.

Typically for the Cyber Monday week, new releases are light on the ground, and in this week's case, there were none in the top 20. This allowed recent hit Inside Out to take back the number one spot, with the other spots being filled by discounted titles, and some Christmas favourites.

Comparing this year's Cyber Monday to last year's, both Blu-ray and DVD revenue fell, with DVD falling more (as expected). This allowed the weekly Blu-ray market share to rise compared to last year, scant consolation perhaps considering total revenue fell by more than $36 million.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Inside Out
2. Jurassic World
3. Elf
4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
5. Jurassic Park Collection
6. Furious 7
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
8. The Polar Express
9. Harry Potter Complete 8-Film Collection
10. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

Another with with no notable new releases, and it was the turn of 'Jurassic Park Collection' to top the BD sales share charts with an even more massive 93.13% BD sales rate.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 6th December 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 31.35% vs 68.65%

Blu-ray: $63.71 million
DVD: $139.53 million

Blu-ray sales decreased by $5.67m (down 8.9%), while DVD sales decreased by $30.56m (down 21.9%) producing $36.23 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 31.35% to 34.75%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 28th November 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 34.55% vs 65.45%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $101.20 million
DVD sales total spending: $191.68 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

It's Black Friday week, and sales are way up for both Blu-ray and DVD, with Blu-ray revenue exceeding $100 million for the first time since the last Black Friday week.

Traditionally, the Black Friday week is not a week that has many new releases, or in this week's case, *any* new releases at all, but with so many sales on, it's usually the one time of the year you can rely on for huge disc sales.

And this year is no different, with Blu-ray's $101.20 million just shy of last BF's $103.58, a negligible drop. This is much better than last year, when results fell by more than $15 million compared to BF 2013.

DVD sales continued their decline though, and maybe even accelerated a bit, with this year's $191.68 down by more than $34 million compared to last year (DVD revenue for BF 2014 was down $27 million compared to BF 2013).

Combined disc sales showed that BF 2015 was down $37 million compared to BF 2014.

As for this week's best selling titles, the sale of selected titles, such as 'Furious 7' and 'American Sniper', helped them get back into the top 10.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Jurassic World
2. Inside Out
3. Home
4. Pitch Perfect 2
5. American Sniper
6. San Andreas
7. Furious 7
8. Interstellar
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. *Aladdin

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

No notable new releases this week, but 'Jurassic World' topped the BD sales share charts with a massive 77.11% BD sales rate, ensuring that more than 3 in 4 disc packages sold for the movie contained a Blu-ray version of the film.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 29th November 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 31.40% vs 68.60%

Blu-ray: $103.58 million
DVD: $226.30 million

Blu-ray sales decreased by $2.38m (down 2.3%), while DVD sales decreased by $34.62m (down 15.3%) producing $37 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 31.40% to 34.55%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 21st November 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 34.14% vs 65.86%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $34.68 million
DVD sales total spending: $66.89 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Blu-ray revenue and market shared dropped slightly compared to last week, despite the scarcity of new releases this week.

The week's best seller only managed to get 3rd place on the Blu-ray chart, and it was The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

The release of the extended versions of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies also helped the movie re-enter the top 100, at 5th (the trilogy pack was 13th).

And that was it for the Blu-ray top 20, although Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood did manage to grab 13th spot on the combined Blu-ray and DVD chart.

Despite the small number of new releases, the Blu-ray results remained high thanks to the last few week's major releases ('Inside Out' and 'Jurassic World').

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Inside Out
2. Jurassic World
3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
4. Terminator: Genisys
5. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
6. Trainwreck
7. *Aladdin
8. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
9. Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy
10. Avengers: Age of Ultron

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

The Hobbit movies were at the top of the BD sales share charts, with 83.74% for the trilogy and 70.19% for the Battle of Five Armies.

'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' managed 46.48%. 'Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood' only got 18%.

There were no notable Blu-ray 3D releases for the week.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 22nd November 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 29.35% vs 70.65%

Blu-ray: $37.86 million
DVD: $91.13 million

Blu-ray sales decreased by $3.18m (down 8.4%), while DVD sales decreased by $24.24m (down 26.6%) producing $27.42 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 29.35% to 34.14%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 14th November 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 36.27% vs 63.73%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $39.74 million
DVD sales total spending: $69.83 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:


We have a new number one this week and it's the new release Terminator: Genisys. However, it was not a great seller on Blu-ray, at least not compared to last week's 'Inside Out', which meant that Blu-ray revenue and market share both dropped, with the former falling just shy of the $40 million mark.

There were quite a few "new" releases in the Blu-ray top 20 this week, much of it was Star Wars related, but more on that later. In third place however was the next new release, Trainwreck. Self/less was in 7th place.

The rest was all Star Wars, with the new Blu-ray exclusive Steelbook versions of the films. Popularity wise, they were in the order Episode IV, Episode V, Episode VI, and then the prequel trilogy in their right order, finishing in 9th, 11th, 13th, and 15th, 17th and 18th.

Outside of the top 20, we have Mr. Holmes and Pay the Ghost, which were 8th and 17th respectively on the Blu-ray and DVD combined chart.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Terminator: Genisys
2. Inside Out
3. Trainwreck
4. Jurassic World
5. *Aladdin
6. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
7. Self/less
8. Pixels
9. Star Wars: Episode IV
10. Avengers: Age of Ultron

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

'Terminator: Genisys' had the best BD sales share as well, with 63.66%. It was also available on Blu-ray 3D, with a BD3D sales share of 9.58%. 'Trainwreck' managed 45.68%, while 'Self/less' got 43.31%.

'Pay the Ghost' and 'Mr. Holmes' got 26% and 24% respectively.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 15th November 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 34.64% vs 65.36%

Blu-ray: $47.94 million
DVD: $90.45 million

An 'all red' week prevented thanks to rising Blu-ray market share, as the new 'Terminator' movie couldn't compared to 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' from this week last year.

Blu-ray sales decreased by $8.2m (down 17.1%), while DVD sales decreased by $20.62m (down 22.8%) producing $28.82 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 34.64% to 36.27%.

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Also, I can't believe I've been doing this for seven years already!

Yes, that's a real good job, and now this database is quite a real time machine. When this topic was started, there were a lot's of different future ideas which sounds totally weird today. For example, nobody thought, that the "iThings", just like iPhone will change everything, as there weren't any need for such things at the market, but there were a need for a lot's of optical drives and optical drive investments.

And, even it's a real long story, for now it's only a part of the history. So actually, we are writing history. Ok, mostly You write the history, we just assist for this sometimes

Optical things... just like a galaxy, far, far away

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Stats:

For the week ending 7th November 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 39.54% vs 60.46%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $50.38 million
DVD sales total spending: $77.03 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Another A-list release this week in the form of Pixar's latest offering Inside Out. It easily outsold the last two week's number one 'Jurassic World', by nearly a 5-to-1 margin.

The next new release was in third place, Vacation.

That was actually it for new releases in the top 10, and Toy Story That Time Forgot was the only other new release in the top 20 (coming in at 11th).

But once again, it's not the number of new releases, but the quality of these releases, that set the tone for the week with Blu-ray revenue rising above the $50 million mark again, although Blu-ray market share was just shy of 40%.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Inside Out
2. Jurassic World
3. Vacation
4. *Aladdin
5. Pixels
6. Avengers: Age of Ultron
7. Southpaw
8. San Andreas
9. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
10. Max

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

This week's top seller 'Inside Out' also had the best BD sales share, with 56.52%. 'Toy Story That Time Forgot' managed 40.07%, while 'Vacation' was not in the top 20 with 33%.

'Inside Out' was also available on Blu-ray 3D, with a BD3D sales share of 4.26%.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 8th November 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 35.47% vs 64.53%

Blu-ray: $45.72 million
DVD: $83.19 million

Blu-ray sales increased by $4.66m (up 10.2%), while DVD sales decreased by $6.16m (down 7.4%) producing $1.5 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 35.47% to 39.54%.

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Yep, it's clear that packaged media as a whole has been on the slide for a while now. Blu-ray managed to slow the decline for a while, but its growth has stalled now too.

Also, I can't believe I've been doing this for seven years already!

[AT.]

Just for fun, here is a seven year old data for the same period:

For the week ending 16th November 2008, here are the stats:

Percentage of Top 20 titles by disc volume:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 9% vs 91%

All sales by $ volume (Percentage of Total Sales):
Blu-ray sales up 83.49% compared to last week, total spending: $20.17 million (10.35%)
DVD sales up 46.92% compared to last week, total spending: $174.71 million (89.65%)

Even if the percentage raises, the value is not rising but struggling.

Of course, it's just a sample, the previous week had $10 million revenue in the past, however IMHO now it can be stated, that not the BD figures are healthier week by week, but the entire optical market is dying.

IMHO the only question remains for today is that, which format will be completly dead for first.

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Stats:

For the week ending 31st October 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 36.18% vs 63.82%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $36.90 million
DVD sales total spending: $65.10 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Blu-ray weekly revenue and market share are off their recent highs despite the presence of four new releases in the top 10.

The best selling of the new releases was Adam Sandler's Pixels, which did not sell enough copies on Blu-ray to beat last week's (and this week's) top seller, 'Jurassic World'.

A little bit behind in 3rd place was Southpaw.

Max in 6th place was the next best selling new release, with The Gift in 10th place rounding off things.

Outside of the top 20, in 20th place, was the re-release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the 40th Anniversary edition.

One title that made the combined Blu-ray and DVD top 20 but not the Blu-ray top 20 was Barbie & Her Sisters in The Great Puppy Adventure.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Jurassic World
2. Pixels
3. Southpaw
4. *Aladdin
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron
6. Max
7. San Andreas
8. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
9. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
10. The Gift

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' led the BD sales share charts for the week with a BD sales share of 79.46%. 'Southpaw' was the next best at 49.08%.

Despite being the top seller, 'Pixels' only managed 45.73%. 'The Gift' managed 40.93%.

'Max' managed 22%, while 'Barbie & Her Sisters in The Great Puppy Adventure' only managed 10%.

There were no notable new Blu-ray 3D releases for the week.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 1st November 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 25.15% vs 74.85%

Blu-ray: $22.36 million
DVD: $66.56 million

Blu-ray sales increased by $14.54m (up 65%), while DVD sales decreased by $1.46m (down 2.2%) producing $13.08 million more in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 25.15% to 36.18%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 24th October 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 48.62% vs 51.38%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $64.34 million
DVD sales total spending: $68.00 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

A huge A-list release this week helped Blu-ray revenue reach its highest point in 2015, and for weekly Blu-ray market share reach a record high.

Jurassic World was the A-list release in question, and it blew away all other releases in its wake, outselling last week's number one ('Aladdin') by more than a 10-to-1 margin. The updated Jurassic Park Collection (that includes the new movie) also sold enough copies to get into the top 10 (at 7th). The new Jurassic Park movie also helped individual sales of the older movies, with 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' get into the top 20 (at 12th and 19th respectively).

The next best selling new release was in 4th, with Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'. Back to the Future Day (October 21st, 2015) helped sales of the Back to the Future: 30th Anniversary Trilogy, which ranked 6th this week.

There was only one more new release in the top 20, Paper Towns in 11th.

But as mentioned earlier, it was really 'Jurassic World' that helped to break some records for Blu-ray this week, with the highest sales result of 2015 so far, and the highest ever weekly Blu-ray market share of 48.62%, with Blu-ray nearly outselling DVDs for the week.

Of course, some of that is down to ever decreasing DVD sales. As a comparison, for the week 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' was released (in March, 2014), the week had a Blu-ray revenue of nearly $60 million, comparable to this week. But DVD revenue that week was $106.57 million, compared to only $68 million this week (and this is despite 'Jurassic World' being a much bigger box office hit than 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire', $650 million versus $425 million).

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Jurassic World
2. *Aladdin
3. San Andreas
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron
5. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
6. Back to the Future: 30th Anniversary Trilogy
7. Jurassic Park Collection
8. Tomorrowland
9. Furious 7
10. Star Wars: The Original Trilogy

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

The title that topped the BD sales share chart, Back to the Future: The Complete Adventures, didn't get into any of the sales top 20. With a whopping 93.65%, it makes you wonder why Universal even bothered to release the DVD edition of the collection, which includes all the movies plus the animated series. The 'Back to the Future: 30th Anniversary Trilogy' managed 59.91%, suggesting that Blu-ray is "where it's at" for collectibles.

'Jurassic World' did great for a new release as well, with 67.06% (the 'Jurassic Park Collection" was slightly behind with 61.35%). 'Jurassic World' was also available on Blu-ray 3D, with a BD3D sales share of 7.16%.

'Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'' managed 54.08%, while 'Paper Towns' scored 33.15%.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 25th October 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 28.69% vs 71.31%

Blu-ray: $26.85 million
DVD: $66.73 million

From last week's 'all red' week to this week's 'all green', no surprises that this week's 'Jurassic World' beat this time last year's 'Earth to Echo'.

Blu-ray sales increased by $37.49m (up 139.6%), while DVD sales increased by $1.27m (up 1.9%) producing $38.76 million more in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 28.69% to 48.62%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 17th October 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 40.33% vs 59.67%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $43.02 million
DVD sales total spending: $63.65 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Two relatively big releases and a classic Disney re-release helped Blu-ray revenue rise compared to last week. Blu-ray revenue rose above $40 million again, and weekly Blu-ray market share to go above 40%.

San Andreas was the best selling out of this week's new releases when taking into account Blu-ray and DVD sales, but it was the Blu-ray exclusive re-release of Disney's Aladdin that was the week's best selling Blu-ray.

In 4th place was another new release, and another Disney release, Tomorrowland.

And then it's all the way down to 10th for the next new release, Dope.

Outside of the top 10, How the Grinch Stole Christmas managed to get as high as 17th.

Outside of the top 20, The Gallows was 14th on the combined Blu-ray and DVD charts.

But it was really 'Aladdin' and to a lesser extent, 'San Andreas', that helped to boost the Blu-ray sales stats for the week.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. *Aladdin
2. San Andreas
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron
4. Tomorrowland
5. Furious 7
6. Magic Mike XXL
7. Pitch Perfect 2
8. Cinderella
9. Spy
10. Dope

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

'Dope' narrowly beat 'Tomorrowland' in the BD sales share stakes, with 47% compared to 46.71%. 'San Andreas' was further back with 39.59%, and as it was also available on Blu-ray 3D, it managed a BD3D sales share of 7.46%.

'The Gallows' only managed 22%, which explains why it failed to break through to the Blu-ray top 20.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 18th October 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 35.11% vs 64.89%

Blu-ray: $39.40 million
DVD: $72.83 million

Another 'all red' week prevented, just, by this week's slightly higher Blu-ray market share.

Blu-ray sales increased by $3.62m (up 9.2%), while DVD sales decreased by $9.18m (down 12.6%) producing $5.56 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 35.11% to 40.33%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 10th October 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 33.52% vs 66.48%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $33.26 million
DVD sales total spending: $65.97 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Unlike the last two weeks, no A-list releases this week, and instantly, DVD, Blu-ray revenue and Blu-ray weekly market share all dropped as a result.

The week's top selling new release was Magic Mike XXL, which did not sell enough copies either on Blu-ray or DVD to outsell 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', which was still this week's top selling title.

Within the Blu-ray top 10, Insidious: Chapter 3, Tremors 5: Bloodlines were the new releases, finishing in 6th and 8th respectively.

Outside of the top 10, and in the top 20, the new increases include Vikings: The Complete Third Season in 13th, When Marnie Was There in 16th and American Horror Story: Freak Show in 18th.

Outside of the top 20, Dark Places finished in the combined Blu-ray and DVD top 20.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron
2. Magic Mike XXL
3. Furious 7
4. Pitch Perfect 2
5. Spy
6. Insidious: Chapter 3
7. Cinderella
8. Tremors 5: Bloodlines
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Poltergeist (2015)

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

Despite not selling a lot of copies overall, 'When Marnie Was There' had the best BD sales share with 60.79%. The next best was 'Tremors 5: Bloodlines' with 40.34%. 'Insidious: Chapter 3' managed 37.16%, while 'Vikings: The Complete Third Season' got 35.63%.

This week's top selling new release, 'Magic Mike XXL', didn't even make the BD sales share top 20, with only 27% choosing to buy the Blu-ray version of the film.

Both 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' and 'Dark Places' managed 21%.

None of this week's notable releases were available on Blu-ray 3D.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 11th October 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 33.33% vs 66.67%

Blu-ray: $35.46 million
DVD: $70.94 million

Another 'all red' week prevented, just, by this week's slightly higher Blu-ray market share.

Blu-ray sales decreased by $2.2m (down 6.2%), while DVD sales decreased by $4.97m (down 7%) producing $7.17 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 33.33% to 33.52%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 3rd October 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 38.27% vs 61.73%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $44.22 million
DVD sales total spending: $71.34 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Another A-list release this week in the form of Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Blu-ray revenue shot up back above $40 million again, although weekly market share was just shy of 40%.

While this latest Avengers movie was definitely the driving force for this week's better results, there were also other new releases in the top 10 including Spy (4th), 2015's Poltergeist (6th), Entourage: The Movie (7th) and Outlander: Season 1 Vol. 2 (9th).

Outside of the top 10, we have Monster High: Boo York, Boo York in 16th.

A couple of other titles made the combined Blu-ray and DVD top 20, but failed to get into the Blu-ray top 20. These include Walmart exclusive Spy/The Heat double pack (14th on the combined chart) and Grimm: Season Four (16th).

But it was really 'Avengers' that helped Blu-ray results this week.

The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron
2. Furious 7
3. Pitch Perfect 2
4. Spy
5. Cinderella
6. Poltergeist (2015)
7. Entourage: The Movie
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Outlander: Season 1 Vol. 2
10. Home

Blu-ray Sales Share:

BD sales share for a title is the percentage of disc packages sold for this movie that contained the Blu-ray edition of the film (including combos). So a BD sales share of 60% indicates that 60% of disc packages sold for this particular film contained the Blu-ray edition for this film, and so anything over 50% means that the Blu-ray version of the film was more popular than the DVD version.

'Avengers: Age of Ultron' led the BD sales share chart with 63.01%. The next best was the Entourage movie, with 44.39%, followed by 'Poltergeist' with 38.13%.

'Spy' was further back at 33.45%, while 'Outlander: Season 1 Vol. 2', 'Grimm: Season Four' and 'Monster High: Boo York, Boo York' had 24%, 22% and 16% respectively.

'Age of Ultra' was also available on Blu-ray 3D, with a quite impressive BD3D sales share of 26.89% (26.89% of all disc packages sold contained the Blu-ray 3D version of the film).

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 4th October 2014 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.

Blu-ray vs DVD: 35.19% vs 64.81%

Blu-ray: $40.09 million
DVD: $73.85 million

With 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' released in the same week last year, it wasn't exactly a super quiet week either. But this week's new 'Avengers' still managed to easily beat last year's Transformers.

Blu-ray sales increased by $4.13m (up 10.3%), while DVD sales decreased by $2.51m (down 3.4%) producing $1.62 million more in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share increased from 35.19% to 38.27%.