BD Sales: October 12-18 (Update)

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BD Sales: October 12-18 (Update)

Posted October 22, 2009 03:34 AM by Juan Calonge

'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was again the top-selling Blu-ray according to data from Nielsen VideoScan for the week ended October 18. The week's three new releases, 'The Proposal', 'Drag Me to Hell' and 'Land of the Lost', entered the charts at positions two, three and four, respectively. Surprisingly, Sandra Bullock's comedy sold nearly twice more BDs than Sam Raimi's fan-favorite horror flick.

Here is the Blu-ray top 10 (previous-week ranking in parenthesis):
  1. (1) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  2. • The Proposal
  3. • Drag Me to Hell
  4. • Land of the Lost
  5. (3) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  6. (2) Monsters vs. Aliens
  7. (4) The Wizard of Oz
  8. (6) The Dark Knight
  9. (15) Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
  10. (5) Year One
Regarding Blu-ray share for new titles, the title with the biggest BD percentage was 'Drag Me to Hell', with 22% of its sales coming from highdef disc. 'Land of the Lost' got 13% and 'The Proposal', 7%.

In more general Blu-ray sales information, Home Media Magazine is reporting that, according to estimates from its market research, 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', the first of the summer tentpoles to be released on disc, has become the top-selling new release Blu-ray Disc of the year, with more than 500,000 units bought by consumers.

Overall, BD sales revenue was $25.09 million, up 81.65% from the same week last year. DVD sales revenue was $165.63 million, down 7.25% year-on-year.

Blu-ray accounted for 13.2% of total packaged-media sales revenue.