'
Gran Torino' continued to be the top-selling title on Blu-ray for the week ended June 14, according to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert, closely followed by the 2009 remake of '
Friday the 13th', in its first week on store shelves. In third place, and not far behind, was a catalog title: '
Ghostbusters'.
Here is the Blu-ray top 10 (previous-week ranking in parenthesis):
- (1) Gran Torino
- • Friday the 13th
- • Ghostbusters
- (8) Transformers
- (3) Taken
- (13) The Dark Knight
- • Lost: The Complete First Season
- (19) The Boondock Saints
- (2) The International
- (16) The Terminator
'Ghostbusters' had a strong showing. The BD market share for the week for that title was 62%, and BD sales propelled the title to 16th place in the overall disc sales chart. '
Transformers' jumped further from eighth to fourth place.
Among the several TV series released on Blu-ray last week, the best-selling was '
Lost: The Complete First Season' in seventh place (strangely, the
second season didn't even make the charts). '
John Adams' got 17th place, and in another strange occurrence, '
Generation Kill', despite being in principle a more spectacular title, didn't make the charts either.
Regarding market share, 'Friday the 13th' moved 20% on Blu-ray. It must be noted that other two new releases didn't get a Blu-ray edition: 'Madea Goes to Jail' and 'Family Guy: Volume Seven'.
Update
Home Media Magazine has now published the pie chart comparing aggregate unit sales of the top 20 BDs versus the top 20 DVDs. The split for this week is 8% BD: 92% DVD.
Total revenue from BD sales was $20.80 million, up 218.74% from the same week last year. DVD revenue was $234.00 million, up 37.35% year-on-year.
BD accounted for 8.2% of total packaged-media sales revenue.