Stats:
For the week ending 8th November 2014, here are the stats:
Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 35.47% vs 64.53%
Blu-ray sales total spending: $45.68 million
DVD sales total spending: $83.10 million
These stats available from here:
Home Media Magazine
Top 10:
A Disney A-lister topped the charts this week and helped Blu-ray weekly market share and revenue to rise, with both at their highest since April.
Disney's Maleficent was easily the week's top seller, outselling the number two, and also new release, 2014's Hercules by more than a 3-to-1 margin.
Not too far behind 'Hercules' in third place was another Disney release, Planes: Fire & Rescue.
That's the top 3 all being new releases. Technically, 4th placed also should belong to a new release, or rather, a re-release. The newly released extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug helped the title to climb back into the top 10.
All the way back in 10th place was another new release, at least new to Blu-ray - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: 50th Anniversary.
A couple of new releases failed to make the top 10. A Most Wanted Man was in 14th, while Step Up All In did very well on Blu-ray (well enough to be 7th on the combined Blu-ray and DVD chart), it only finished 16th on the Blu-ray chart.
Two more Christmas themed releases were present on the charts, with Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas/Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas just managing to sneak into the Blu-ray top 20 at 20th, while The Christmas Candle did very poorly on Blu-ray to miss out.
So the roller-coaster ride continues, and it's another high for Blu-ray thanks to another A-list release.
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.
As the extended version of 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' was available only on Blu-ray, this helped to push the title's BD sales share to a high of 75.48%. Surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly), 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: 50th Anniversary' had the next best BD sales share, despite not being a huge seller on Blu-ray - it had a BD sales share of 74.19%.
The top 3 sellers for the week, all new releases, all also managed to break through the 50% BD sales share barrier (meaning more Blu-ray copies of these films were sold than DVD-only copies), and all three were very close as well in terms of BD sales share. 'Maleficent', 'Planes: Fire & Rescue' and 'Hercules (2014)' managed 53.59%, 53.32% and 53.02% respectively.
For the rest of the new releases, 'A Most Wanted Man' managed a respectable 31%, while 'Step Up All In' got 17%. As mentioned earlier, 'The Christmas Candle' did rather poorly on Blu-ray, with a BD sales share of only 2%!
The extended version 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' was available on Blu-ray 3D, and when combined with the previously editions of the film, the BD3D sales share for the film was 10.44%. 'Hercules' managed a BD3D sales share of 5.67%. None of this week's other new releases in the top 20 were available on Blu-ray 3D.
Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart
Year on Year Comparison
The stats for the week ending 9th November 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.
This week's A-lister helped the week recover from last week's 'all red' status.
Blu-ray sales increased by $8.51m (up 22.9%), while DVD sales decreased by $4.93m (down 5.6%) producing $3.58 million more in combined revenue.
Blu-ray's market share increased from 29.69% to 35.47%.
For the week ending 8th November 2014, here are the stats:
Percentage of revenue:
Blu-ray vs DVD: 35.47% vs 64.53%
Blu-ray sales total spending: $45.68 million
DVD sales total spending: $83.10 million
These stats available from here:
Home Media Magazine
Top 10:
A Disney A-lister topped the charts this week and helped Blu-ray weekly market share and revenue to rise, with both at their highest since April.
Disney's Maleficent was easily the week's top seller, outselling the number two, and also new release, 2014's Hercules by more than a 3-to-1 margin.
Not too far behind 'Hercules' in third place was another Disney release, Planes: Fire & Rescue.
That's the top 3 all being new releases. Technically, 4th placed also should belong to a new release, or rather, a re-release. The newly released extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug helped the title to climb back into the top 10.
All the way back in 10th place was another new release, at least new to Blu-ray - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: 50th Anniversary.
A couple of new releases failed to make the top 10. A Most Wanted Man was in 14th, while Step Up All In did very well on Blu-ray (well enough to be 7th on the combined Blu-ray and DVD chart), it only finished 16th on the Blu-ray chart.
Two more Christmas themed releases were present on the charts, with Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas/Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas just managing to sneak into the Blu-ray top 20 at 20th, while The Christmas Candle did very poorly on Blu-ray to miss out.
So the roller-coaster ride continues, and it's another high for Blu-ray thanks to another A-list release.
The complete top 10 chart is below (new releases in bold, and Blu-ray exclusives are denoted by *):
- Maleficent
- Hercules
- Planes: Fire & Rescue
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman
- Sleeping Beauty: Diamond Edition
- Godzilla (2014)
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: 50th Anniversary
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.
As the extended version of 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' was available only on Blu-ray, this helped to push the title's BD sales share to a high of 75.48%. Surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly), 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: 50th Anniversary' had the next best BD sales share, despite not being a huge seller on Blu-ray - it had a BD sales share of 74.19%.
The top 3 sellers for the week, all new releases, all also managed to break through the 50% BD sales share barrier (meaning more Blu-ray copies of these films were sold than DVD-only copies), and all three were very close as well in terms of BD sales share. 'Maleficent', 'Planes: Fire & Rescue' and 'Hercules (2014)' managed 53.59%, 53.32% and 53.02% respectively.
For the rest of the new releases, 'A Most Wanted Man' managed a respectable 31%, while 'Step Up All In' got 17%. As mentioned earlier, 'The Christmas Candle' did rather poorly on Blu-ray, with a BD sales share of only 2%!
The extended version 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' was available on Blu-ray 3D, and when combined with the previously editions of the film, the BD3D sales share for the film was 10.44%. 'Hercules' managed a BD3D sales share of 5.67%. None of this week's other new releases in the top 20 were available on Blu-ray 3D.
Top 20 Blu-ray Market Share Chart
Year on Year Comparison
The stats for the week ending 9th November 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 9th November 2013
Blu-ray sales increased by $8.51m (up 22.9%), while DVD sales decreased by $4.93m (down 5.6%) producing $3.58 million more in combined revenue.
Blu-ray's market share increased from 29.69% to 35.47%.
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