Stats:
For the week ending 30th August 2014, here are the stats:
Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 26.47% vs 73.53%
Blu-ray sales total spending: $25.85 million
DVD sales total spending: $71.81 million
These stats available from here:
Home Media Magazine
Top 10:
Last week's high only lasted a week, as Blu-ray revenue and market shared dropped back down following last week's A-list release of 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'. On Blu-ray, it was still the best selling title for the week, easily beating this week's top selling new Blu-ray, The Walking Dead: The Complete Fourth Season.
When you add in DVD sales, the new season of 'The Walking Dead' wasn't actually the best seller - it was Blended - it was just that the zombie series did better on Blu-ray, although only just.
Being that time of the year, another TV season box set Sons of Anarchy: Season Six was a new best seller, coming in at 5th.
And that was it for new Blu-ray releases in the top 20. Both Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return and The Possession of Michael King, while making the combined Blu-ray and DVD top 20 (at 17th and 18th respectively), did not sell enough on Blu-ray to get into the top 20.
So no new A-list release, plus a poor showing for new releases both in popularity and quantity, meant another ho-hum week for Blu-ray (and DVD).
The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):
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.
Of this week's new releases, 'The Walking Dead: The Complete Fourth Season' did best in terms of BD sales share, with 38.41%. 'Blended' managed 34.45%.
Despite not coming in the Blu-ray top 20, 'Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return' managed a BD sales share of 28.92%, bettering the 21% for 'Sons of Anarchy: Season Six' and the 15% for 'The Possession of Michael King'.
None of this week's top ranking 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 31st August 2013 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.
Another 'all red' week, with this week's weak slate up against this time last year's 'The Great Gatsby'. Worth noting that this week's best selling new release, the new season of 'The Walking Dead', was only last week's 3rd best selling new release (for the then new season 3). Also noteworthy that the BD sales share for season 3 was actually higher (39.81%) than for season 4 (38.41%). The same comparison for 'Sons of Anarchy' showed no growth for Blu-ray compared to DVD over the last year. Is Blu-ray becoming less popular compared to DVD, or is the prevalence of HD streaming and downloading options finally starting to hurt the HD disc format?
Blu-ray sales increased by $5.48m (down 17.5%), while DVD sales decreased by $13.48m (down 15.8%) producing $18.96 million less in combined revenue.
Blu-ray's market share decreased from 26.87% to 26.47%.
For the week ending 30th August 2014, here are the stats:
Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 26.47% vs 73.53%
Blu-ray sales total spending: $25.85 million
DVD sales total spending: $71.81 million
These stats available from here:
Home Media Magazine
Top 10:
Last week's high only lasted a week, as Blu-ray revenue and market shared dropped back down following last week's A-list release of 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'. On Blu-ray, it was still the best selling title for the week, easily beating this week's top selling new Blu-ray, The Walking Dead: The Complete Fourth Season.
When you add in DVD sales, the new season of 'The Walking Dead' wasn't actually the best seller - it was Blended - it was just that the zombie series did better on Blu-ray, although only just.
Being that time of the year, another TV season box set Sons of Anarchy: Season Six was a new best seller, coming in at 5th.
And that was it for new Blu-ray releases in the top 20. Both Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return and The Possession of Michael King, while making the combined Blu-ray and DVD top 20 (at 17th and 18th respectively), did not sell enough on Blu-ray to get into the top 20.
So no new A-list release, plus a poor showing for new releases both in popularity and quantity, meant another ho-hum week for Blu-ray (and DVD).
The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- The Walking Dead: The Complete Fourth Season
- Blended
- Divergent
- Sons of Anarchy: Season Six
- God's Not Dead
- * The Amazing Spider-Man 2-Pack
- Noah
- Muppets Most Wanted
- The Other Woman
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.
Of this week's new releases, 'The Walking Dead: The Complete Fourth Season' did best in terms of BD sales share, with 38.41%. 'Blended' managed 34.45%.
Despite not coming in the Blu-ray top 20, 'Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return' managed a BD sales share of 28.92%, bettering the 21% for 'Sons of Anarchy: Season Six' and the 15% for 'The Possession of Michael King'.
None of this week's top ranking 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 31st August 2013 are as follows. Some small adjustments to the data posted last year (based on more recent updates) has been made and is shown below.
Originally Posted by Stats for week ending 31st August 2013
Blu-ray sales increased by $5.48m (down 17.5%), while DVD sales decreased by $13.48m (down 15.8%) producing $18.96 million less in combined revenue.
Blu-ray's market share decreased from 26.87% to 26.47%.
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