With a DVD heavy top seller, the Blu-ray market share was down to 9% for the week ending August 22nd, according to Home Media Magazine.

The revenue was middle of the road these days at $13.37M, up fractionally over last year for the same period.

Miley Cyrus vehicle The Last Song from Disney was the top seller for the week, followed by Showtime favourite Dexter: The Fourth Season in 2nd place, closely followed by Clash of the Titans from Warner in 3rd.

Kick-Ass from Lionsgate and Date Night from Fox rounded out the top 5, pushing Avatar to 6th place.

King Kong from Universal made a surprise appearance in 11th place, ahead of recent releases Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief from Fox in 12th and 13th respectively.

The top sellers were lower than typical Blu-ray market share, with The Last Song taking 10% and Dexter: The Fourth Season with 14% on Blu-ray Disc.

A hot selling DVD that failed to make the top 20 Blu-ray chart was Furry Vengeance from Summit, with only 5% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

This no doubt goes a long way to explain the low overall market share for the week.

On the plus side, Clash of the Titans and Kick-Ass sold in the 33%-34% market share range, with Avatar holding strong at 43% Blu-ray Disc market share.

While the Blu-ray market share was still in double figures, it was down to 11% for the week ending August 15th, according to Home Media Magazine.

The $14.42M revenue for the week was not a terrible number, however it was down again compared to the same week a year ago.

Date Night from Fox took the top of the chart, ahead of last week’s top seller Kick-Ass from Lionsgate and Clash of the Titans from Warner in 3rd place.

New release Death at a Funeral from Sony Pictures managed 4th place, ahead of Avatar from Fox in 5th position.

Recent Fox releases Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief took 6th place and 11th place on the chart respectively.

Buoyed by  promotional pricing at Amazon, Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series from Universal appeared on the chart in 12th position.

Other sale priced  titles to make the chart included Gangs of New York from Disney in 17th place and Terminator 2: Judgment Day from Lionsgate in 18th place.

Date Night had a fairly decent 20% market share, while the other major new release Death at a Funeral had only 15% Blu-ray market share.

Kick-Ass continues to live up to its name with 41% market share, edged out by Avatar with 42%.

On the other end of the scale, mark up a 10% market share for Diary of a Wimpy Kid and 12% for The Bounty Hunter.

More typical market share is in the 20% range, with Hot Tub Time Machine from MGM at 25%, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at 23% and Warner’s Cop Out at 21% Blu-ray market share for the week.

Kick-Ass propelled the Blu-ray market share to a healthier 14% for the week ending August 8th, according to Home Media Magazine.

Blu-ray revenue was $22.89M for the week, up over 40% compared to last year after two weeks of lagging 2009 figures.

Lionsgate’s Kick-Ass was easily to top seller for the week, ahead of Clash of the Titans from Warner in 2nd place.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid from Fox, Anchor Bay’s The Crazies and Avatar from Fox rounded out the top five on the chart for the week.

New release Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer from Summit took 9th position, ahead of Disney title James and the Giant Peach in 11th place.

Recent release Repo Men from Universal came in 12th place, ahead of another recent release Batman: Under the Red Hood from Warner in 14th position.

Kick-Ass was a very strong seller for Blu-ray Disc with 49% market share, while Diary of a Wimpy Kid was at the other end of the scale with just 12% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

Other top sellers with strong Blu-ray performance include Clash of the Titans with 36%, Avatar with 42% and Hot Tub Time Machine with 40% Blu-ray Disc market share.

However even these were beaten by bargain priced titles The Crazies with 74% and Brooklyn’s Finest with 60% Blu-ray market share.

Market share for other new releases included The Ghost Writer with 23% and on the TV side  Heroes: Season 4 had 18% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

The Blu-ray market share was 12% - back in double figures after a week under 10% for the week ending July 25th according to Home Media Magazine.

While the revenue was a reasonably healthy $13.67M, this was down over 60% compared to the same week last year.

Warner was on top for the week with The Losers in 1st place, and while it was the top DVD, Kevin Smith’s Cop Out came in a close 2nd on the Blu-ray Chart.

Fox also had a decent week with Blu-ray favourite Avatar in 3rd place and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief in 4th position.

The Bounty Hunter from Sony Pictures rounded out the top 5, ahead of new Sony release The Runaways in 6th.

2001: A Space Odyssey from Warner was pushed to 11th place by heavy discounting.

Art house titles featured in the top 20 chart, with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo from Music Box Films in 15th place and Criterion Collection’s new release The Red Shoes in 19th place.

The top DVD sellers were also strong  Blu-ray sellers. with Cop Out taking 38% market share and The Losers outselling the DVD with 51% of sales on Blu-ray Disc in its first week.

Other top DVD titles were not so hot on Blu-ray, with The Bounty Hunter at 13% and The Runaways with 17% Blu-ray market share.

Avatar had yet another strong week with 43% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

The Blu-ray market share was down at 9% for the week ending July 18th according to Home Media Magazine, in single digits for the first time since February.

The revenue for the week was still in double digits though, with $11.02M taken in for the week.

New release The Bounty Hunter from Sony Pictures took 1st place, ahead of Blu-ray favourite Avatar and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, both from Fox Home Entertainment.

Hot Tub Time Machine from MGM and Brooklyn’s Finest from Anchor Bay rounded out the top 5.

New release Our Family Wedding from Fox was the second placed DVD, but placed 8th on the Blu-ray chart.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo from Music Box Films continues to do well for a foreign title in 9th place.

Looking at market share for the top DVD titles it is easy to see how the overall market share is so low.

Top selling DVDs The Bounty Hunter and Our Family Wedding had only 14% and 11% market share respectively.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Hot Tub Time Machine did considerably better in the 22% -23% range.

Avatar is still doing superbly however, with 43% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

The Blu-ray market share was only 10% last week, and the revenue of $12.77M for the week ending July 11th was down 20% compared to last year, according to Home Media Magazine.

July has been a bit of a slow month for releases so these lack luster numbers don’t surprise me.

Brooklyn’s Finest from Anchor Bay topped the sales chart ahead of last week’s Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief release from Fox in 2nd place and MGM’s Hot Tub Time Machine in 3rd.

The ever present Avatar from Fox held 4th ahead of new release The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo from Music Box Films in 5th position.

Sony’s new release A Single Man settled for 14th place, while sale priced titles showed up in the chart, including Warner titles Dark City and 2001: A Space Odyssey in 17th and 18th place.

Looking at per title market share, Brooklyn’s Finest managed a solid 25% Blu-ray Disc market share, with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Hot Tub Time Machine in the same ball park at 23% - 24%.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo did a little better with 28% of sales on Blu-ray Disc while A Single Man was slightly worse at 21%.

Avatar is still going strong for Blu-ray though, with a 43% market share.

With consistently high market share for Blu-ray Disc, it would seem that Avatar is the ‘killer app’ this summer.

Blu-ray sales into July remain fairly steady with a market share of 11% on a decent revenue of $17.35M for the week ending July 4th, according to Home Media Magazine.

Fox release Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief took 1st place ahead of Hot Tub Time Machine from MGM in 2nd and The Crazies from Anchor Bay in 3rd.

The top five was rounded out by hot sellers Avatar from Fox and Warner’s The Book of Eli.

The new release of Predator (Ultimate Hunter Edition) from Fox, with its super shiny new transfer, also made the chart in 13th place.

Magnolia got a boost with their release The Warlords, featuring Jet Li, in 14th position.

The new release market share for the top selling titles were fairly strong, with Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief at 25%, Hot Tub Time Machine at 28% and The Crazies at 32% market share.

Avatar continues its strong tradition with 42% market share on Blu-ray Disc, while the HBO television series Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season is at the other end of the scale at 15% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

The Blu-ray market share was a fairly typical 12% on a revenue of $15.03M for the week ending June 27th, according to Home Media Magazine.

The Book of Eli from Warner maintained its place at the top of the chart, fending off Universal’s Green Zone, close behind in 2nd place.

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 2 took 3rd and 4th place respectively, ahead of Avatar from Fox in 5th place.

New release She’s Out of My League from Paramount came in 7th place, with new HBO release Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season very close behind in 8th position, and Summit’s new release Remember Me settled for 11th place.

The top sellers for this week had a pretty solid market share for Blu-ray Disc, with The Book of Eli selling 31% on Blu-ray Disc and Green Zone selling 29%.

On the other end of the spectrum though, Remember Me from Summit sold only 10% on Blu-ray Disc.

Avatar continues to be a strong seller with 42% Blu-ray Disc market share, which was equaled this week by the BBC’s TV series Life.

New releases Entourage and She’s Out of My League sold 20 - 21% on Blu-ray Disc.

It is kind of interesting that while on a release by release basis, Blu-ray is probably on average in the 20% market share range, the overall market share is much lower.

This indicates that the huge depth of the DVD catalog is going to be tough for Blu-ray to gain on.

The Blu-ray market share was 14% for the second week running for the week ending June 20th, according to Home Media Magazine.

On the plus side the revenue was a healthier $26.44M, up 27% over the same period last year.

Warner’s new release The Book of Eli took first place on the chart this week, ahead of Avatar from Fox which has pushed Disney’s Alice in Wonderland to 3rd position.

Shutter Island from Paramount and Sony’s 2012 round out the top 5, with recent Lionsgate release From Paris with Love having to settle for 6th place.

New release When in Rome from Disney debuted in 13th place on the chart, ahead of Sony’s new title Youth in Revolt in 17th position.

Looking at per title market share, top seller The Book of Eli was a strong player for Blu-ray with 35% market share, doing slightly better than Alice in Wonderland with 33% market share.

Avatar continues its strong run with 46% of sales on Blu-ray Disc, as does Life from BBC Video with 39% Blu-ray market share.

Discounts played a strong role this week with 2012 taking the top honors with 79% of sales on Blu-ray Disc, ahead of Law Abiding Citizen with 51% and of The Hangover with 48%.

New release When in Rome is at the other end of the scale with only 12% market share on Blu-ray Disc, while Youth in Revolt did better with 25% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

The Blu-ray market share was a typical 14% for the week ending June 13th, according to Home Media Magazine.

The weekly revenue was $19.52M for the week - down a little compared to last year.

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland remains in 1st place, ahead of new releases Shutter Island from Paramount and Lionsgate’s From Paris with Love in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Avatar is still a big seller for Fox, taking 4th place on the chart, with recent remake release The Wolfman from Universal rounding out the top 5.

The new releases are doing fairly well for Blu-ray, with Alice in Wonderland, Shutter Island and From Paris with Love all taking 28% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

Avatar is still in the 39% market share range while Life from BBC Video sold 43% on Blu-ray Disc.

The Hurt Locker from Summit was the winner for the week with 52% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

On a different note, sorry that this post is later and shorter than usual - I am actually in China for the week so while I will try to keep everything updated, my connectivity to the internets may be limited.