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

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Stats:

For the week ending 4th July 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 25.05% vs 74.95%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $20.05 million
DVD sales total spending: $59.99 million

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Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Blu-ray revenue stayed at last week's lows, although DVD revenue did improve slightly for the 4th of July sales week (with the holiday, another one that's not particularly busy). The slight improvement in total revenue can be contributed to the fact that, yes, we actually have some more notable releases this week, starting with this week's best selling new release and overall number one seller Get Hard. It easily outsold last week's number one, 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'.

It's 4th place for the next new release, Last Knights.

The next, and the last new release in the top 20, was The Gunman in 6th place.

So some pretty average new releases, and only three of them to boot, means Blu-ray revenue stays close to record lows for the year (only $10,000 better).

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

1. Get Hard
2. Kingsman: The Secret Service
3. Chappie
4. Last Knights
5. American Sniper
6. The Gunman
7. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
8. Interstellar
9. Despicable Me 2
10. Despicable Me

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 worst selling of this week's three notable new releases actually had the best BD sales share - 'The Gunman' managed 44.55%.

Both of the other new releases, 'Get Hard' and 'Last Knights' got 31% - fairly average for new releases.

Again, there were no new notable 3D releases this week.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 5th July 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: 25.47% vs 74.53%

Blu-ray: $22.68 million
DVD: $66.36 million

There were barely any new releases this time last year, but both DVD and Blu-ray sales were still better (largely off the success of The Lego Movie), which makes this week's "all red" just that slightly more disconcerting.

Blu-ray sales decreased by $2.63m (down 11.6%), while DVD sales decreased by $6.37m (down 9.6%) producing $9 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share decreased from 25.47% to 25.05%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 27th June 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 26.29% vs 73.71%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $20.04 million
DVD sales total spending: $56.18 million

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Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Another poor week for both Blu-ray and DVD revenue, with Blu-ray revenue falling to the worst result in 2015, and DVD revenue close to the lowest ever recorded.

The reason for the poor results has to with the poor release slate for the week, with only 3 new releases in the top 20, and none failing to even make it into the top 5.

Survivor was the week's best selling new release, but it only managed to get as high as 6th on the Blu-ray chart (5th on the combined Blu-ray and DVD chart).

The next most popular new release didn't even make the top 10 - at 11th was The Forger.

An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success was the only other new release in the top 20, at 14th.

As you can see, none of this week's releases were what you would exactly call A-list (or even B-list). The big problem in 2015 for Blu-ray and DVD was the relatively poor release slate of movies at the cinema in 2014. 2015 is already looking like a fantastic year for movies, with Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron combining to earn almost a billion at the box office in the US alone, that's more than the top 3 movies in 2014 (American Sniper, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy) combined - and we still have the rest of the summer releases, and Star Wars (!) coming. All of these will combine to make the end of 2015 and 2016 a big year for Blu-ray and DVD (or at least, bigger than 2014/2015).

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

1. Kingsman: The Secret Service
2. American Sniper
3. Chappie
4. Jurassic Park
5. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
6. Survivor
7. Run All Night
8. Jupiter Ascending
9. Fifty Shades of Grey
10. Interstellar

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.

Not only did this week's new releases sell poorly, they also sold poorly on Blu-ray compared to the average for new releases. 'Survivor', the best of this week's titles in terms of BD sales share, only managed 32.20% (18th on the BD sales share chart).

'The Forger' only got 27% and 'An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success' managed 23%.

There were no new notable 3D releases this week.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 28th June 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: 30.21% vs 69.79%

Blu-ray: $29.26 million
DVD: $67.61 million

6th placed 'Survivor' from this week takes on this time last year's number one '300: Rise of an Empire' - no contest, really.

Blu-ray sales decreased by $9.22m (down 31.5%), while DVD sales decreased by $11.43m (down 16.9%) producing $20.65 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share decreased from 30.21% to 26.29%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 20th June 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 32.81% vs 67.19%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $31.65 million
DVD sales total spending: $64.82 million

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Top 10:

Despite none of these week's new releases doing any better than 3rd place (with 'American Sniper' and 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' still occupying the first and second spots), Blu-ray revenue and market share both went up (and even DVD revenue went up too).

Chappie was this week's best selling new release, but as mentioned previously, it only managed to sell enough copies to get third place.

In 5th place was another new release, Run All Night, but that was it for new releases in the top 10.

Outside the top 10, Spirited Away debuts in 12th, with The Lazarus Effect in 14th and Unfinished Business in 16th.

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

1. American Sniper
2. Kingsman: The Secret Service
3. Chappie
4. Jurassic Park
5. Run All Night
6. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
7. Interstellar
8. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
9. Jupiter Ascending
10. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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.

'Chappie' had a BD sales share of 49%, the best of this week's new releases. The next best was 'Unfinished Business' with 37%, while the other two releases, 'The Lazarus Effect' and 'Run All Night' managed 31%.

There were no new notable 3D releases this week.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 21st June 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: 35.26% vs 64.74%

Blu-ray: $41.93 million
DVD: $76.98 million

This week's third placed 'Chappie' is up against this time last year's 'The Lego Movie', so it was no competition really, and we have another 'all red' week as a result.

Blu-ray sales decreased by $10.28m (down 24.5%), while DVD sales decreased by $12.16m (down 15.8%) producing $22.44 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share decreased from 35.26% to 32.81%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 13th June 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 31.63% vs 68.37%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $28.47 million
DVD sales total spending: $61.54 million

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Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

Both Blu-ray and DVD revenue, as well as weekly Blu-ray market share fell again compared to last week's temporary high, as the quantity and quality of new releases failed to match that of last week.

The best selling title of the week, which was also a new release, was Kingsman: The Secret Service.

It's all the way down to 7th for the next new release, which was The Duff. It was closely followed by another new release, Project Almanac, in 8th place.

Outside of the top 10, we have Serena in 19th as this week's last notable new release.

The box office success of Jurassic World ensured that all three previous movies, plus the collector's edition box set, were all in the top 20.

So hardly a great selection of new titles, ensuring Blu-ray revenue fell back below $30 million for the week again.

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

1. Kingsman: The Secret Service
2. American Sniper
3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
4. Jupiter Ascending
5. Jurassic Park
6. The Duff
7. Project Almanac
8. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
9. Fifty Shades of Grey
10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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.

'Kingsman: The Secret Service' did quite well on Blu-ray, selling more on the HD format than on DVD with a BD sales share of 51.01%.

'Project Almanac' managed 47.12%, while 'The Duff' and 'Serena' managed 25% and 24% respectively.

No notable 3D releases this week.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 14th June 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: 33.39% vs 66.61%

Blu-ray: $38.47 million
DVD: $76.73 million

Another 'all red' week unfortunately, and it wasn't as if this time last year was a huge week in terms of new releases ('Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' and 'Non-Stop' were the notable new releases back then).

Blu-ray sales decreased by $10m (down 26%), while DVD sales decreased by $15.19m (down 19.8%) producing $25.19 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share decreased from 33.39% to 31.63%.

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Stats:

For the week ending 6th June 2015, here are the stats:

Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 33.25% vs 66.75%

Blu-ray sales total spending: $32.49 million
DVD sales total spending: $65.23 million

These stats available from here:

Home Media Magazine



Top 10:

A couple of better releases this week allowed Blu-ray weekly revenue and market share to rise compared to last week.

Leading the charts was The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, an A-list release (of sorts) that helped Blu-ray revenue rise.

Not too far behind was the critically panned Jupiter Ascending.

Focus, in 4th place, was the next best selling new release, ahead of McFarland USA in 6th.

And finally in 10th place was Justified: The Final Season.

Outside of the top 20, we have Falling Skies: The Complete Fourth Season, which finished 16th on the combined Blu-ray and DVD chart.

So a selection of better releases this week, and Blu-ray revenue rose to its highest point in over a month.

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

1. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
2. Jupiter Ascending
3. American Sniper
4. Focus
5. Fifty Shades of Grey
6. McFarland USA
7. Seventh Son
8. Jurassic Park
9. Interstellar
10. Justified: The Final Season

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.

None of this week's new releases broke through the 50% barrier. The title that came closest was 'Jupiter Ascending at 48.85%. 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water' managed 44.16%

'Focus' managed to have a 38.75% BD sales share.

For the rest, 'Falling Skies: The Complete Fourth Season' managed 27%, 'McFarland USA' got 25% and 'Justified: The Final Season' managed 24%.

We do have some notable 3D releases this week, with 'Jupiter Ascending' having a Blu-ray 3D sales share of 11.23%, while 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water' managed 3.18%.

Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart

Year on Year Comparison

The stats for the week ending 7th June 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: 33.47% vs 66.53%

Blu-ray: $37.17 million
DVD: $73.87 million

Another 'all red' week, but just barely. It's understandable though, given that this time last year, we had a release slate that included 'Lone Survivor'.

Blu-ray sales decreased by $4.68m (down 12.6%), while DVD sales decreased by $8.64m (down 11.7%) producing $13.32 million less in combined revenue.

Blu-ray's market share decreased from 33.47% to 33.25%.