During the week ended January 10, Sony Pictures' animated movie '
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' was the top-selling title on Blu-ray, according to Nielsen Videoscan. '
The Hangover' followed close by, unexpectedly beating another new entry, '
The Final Destination', which only managed third place.
Here is the Blu-ray top 10 (previous week ranking in parenthesis:
- • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- (1) The Hangover
- • The Final Destination
- (2) District 9
- (6) Inglourious Basterds
- (r) Gladiator
- (7) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- (13) The Dark Knight
- (10) Star Trek
- (5) 9
Regarding Blu-ray market share for this week's releases, the biggest percentage was for 'The Final Destination', with 32% of its sales coming from Blu-ray. 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' got 18%, not as high as the record 24% BD market share for '
Up' during its first week on shelves, but significantly better than other animation titles released late 2009 (see blu-ray.com,
November 19, 2009). '
Chuck: The Complete Second Season' (17th in the BD sales chart) got 20% Blu-ray market share.
Overall, BD sales revenue was $22.42 million, up 19.85% from the same week last year.
Packaged-media sales revenue was $163.90 million, down 2.59% year-on-year. Blu-ray accounted for 13.7% of that revenue.