Blu-ray Sells over $330m in Q1 2010
Posted April 5, 2010 05:15 AM by Juan Calonge
According to aggregate weekly estimates from the research department of Home Media Magazine and listed each week on blu-ray.com's sales information posts, revenues from BD sales in the US in the first quarter of 2010 were $331.31 million, 68.5% more than in the same period of 2009. Blu-ray accounted for 12.3% of packaged-media sales revenue in the first three months of the year (versus 7.0% in Jan-Mar 2009).
Packaged-media sales revenues for the quarter were just short of $2.7 billion, 3.1% up year-on-year.
The biggest-selling week in the quarter was the week ended March 25, with $45.46 million in BD sales. The slowest week was the week ended February 21, with $18.58 million.
During the month of March, Blu-ray sales revenues were $130.36 million, 86% up year-on-year.