Market Share and Revenues Rise for the Week Ending November 8th

Posted in Market Share on November 13th, 2009 by Dave

The week ending November 8th was up a little over the previous week with the Blu-ray market share at 14% and a revenue of $28M for Blu-ray, according to Home Media Magazine.

The new chart leader was G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra from Paramount, with The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 from Sony in 2nd.

The top five was rounded out by popular recent releases Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen from Paramount/DreamWorks, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from Disney and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs from Fox Home Entertainment.

New catalog releases Forrest Gump from Paramount and North by Northwest from Warner took 6th and 7th place respectively.

Other new releases in the charts included Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete Season One from Warner in 9th place, It’s a Wonderful Life from Paramount in 14th and Aliens in the Attic from Fox in 15th position.

Looking at per title market share, we saw strong Blu-ray sales for the top seller G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, with 28% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

The Taking of Pelham 123 also did well, selling 21% on Blu-ray, while the recent Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had a 23% market share for Blu-ray.

Family title Aliens in the Attic was a different story though, with only 7% market share for Blu-ray - though that is pretty good for a family title really.

Teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper did better though with 10% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

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2 Responses to “Market Share and Revenues Rise for the Week Ending November 8th”

Robert Markham says:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Still hovering in the mid-teens, eh? This is probably Blu-ray’s last Christmas to try to really become a mainstream product, which I think is unlikely. It’s doing fine, of course, but will never become the standard format.
Dave says:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:51 am
I am not sure what you mean by standard format. It already is a standard format in my definition of the term - you find it pretty much all media outlets and many other places including 7-11 and supermarkets these days.

While it will take many years, it would not surprise me if Blu-ray becomes _the_ standard product eventually simply because the studios phase out DVDs in favour of the higher capacity Blu discs… of course that is years out from now, but in the long run it won’t make sense to press DVD discs.