Warner's '
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' easily won the week for Blu-ray Sales during the week ended December 13, according to Nielsen VideoScan. Universal's '
Public Enemies' got second place. The other major new theatrical release of the week, Sony's '
Julie and Julia', only managed number 10 of the charts.
Regarding Blu-ray market share, the biggest percentage was this time for 'Public Enemies', with 30%. 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' got 24% of its sales from high-def, whereas 'Julie & Julia' had a BD percentage of only 6%.
The top 10 and overall sales figures will be added in a later update.
Update
Here is the Blu-ray top 10 (previous-week ranking in parenthesis):
- • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- • Public Enemies
- (1) Terminator: Salvation
- (3) Star Trek
- (4) Up
- (12) The Taking of Pelham 123
- (2) Night at the Museum: Battle of
the Smithsonian
- • Lost: The
Complete Fifth Season
- (5) Angels & Demons
- • Julie and Julia
'Lost: The Complete Fifth Season' got 16% from its total sales from Blu-ray.
Overall, BD sales revenue was $79.86 million, up 70.64% from the same week last year.
Packaged-media sales revenue was $588.98 million, down 13.85% year-on-year. Blu-ray accounted for 13.6% of that revenue.