BD Sales Information: August 3-9

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BD Sales Information: August 3-9

Posted August 13, 2009 03:38 AM by Juan Calonge

In its second week on shelves, 'Fast & Furious' remained the top-selling Blu-ray for the week ended August 9, according to data from Nielsen VideoScan First Alert. 'Race to Witch Mountain', which was the number-one title of the week on DVD, only managed a second place on BD, although sales volumes for both titles were very close.

Here is the Blu-ray top 10 (previous-week ranking in parenthesis):
  1. (1) Fast & Furious
  2. • Race to Witch Mountain
  3. (2) Watchmen
  4. • Obsessed
  5. (3) Coraline
  6. • Big Trouble in Little China
  7. • The Soloist
  8. (4) Taken
  9. (20) Ghostbusters
  10. (16) Knowing
Regarding BD market share for new releases, 'Race to Witch Mountain' got 11%, a respectable figure for a family title. 'The Soloist' and 'Obsessed' got 8% and 6%, respectively.

Overall, BD sales revenue was $16.11 million, up 207.73% from the same week last year. DVD sales revenue was $165.75 million, down 4.53% year-on-year.

Blu-ray accounted for 8.9% of total packaged-media sales revenue.