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Market Share for Each Genre in 2009

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Note: This chart ranks genres by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2009. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2009. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2008 will most likely earn money in 2008 and 2009.

Top Grossing of 2009

RankGenreMovies2009 GrossTicketsShare
1 Adventure 44 $2,540,049,625 338,673,276 23.87%
2 Action 33 $2,041,439,009 272,191,862 19.19%
3 Drama 200 $1,826,299,890 243,506,569 17.17%
4 Comedy 95 $1,744,915,605 232,655,387 16.40%
5 Thriller/Suspense 55 $876,404,624 116,853,929 8.24%
6 Romantic Comedy 27 $657,171,387 87,622,846 6.18%
7 Horror 27 $600,884,902 80,117,978 5.65%
8 Documentary 94 $187,731,285 25,030,799 1.76%
9 Black Comedy 12 $92,514,316 12,335,238 0.87%
10 Musical 10 $39,330,920 5,244,119 0.37%
11 Concert/Performance 3 $19,953,639 2,660,484 0.19%
12 Multiple Genres 1 $644,635 85,951 0.01%
13 Western 2 $169,906 22,654 0.00%

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The yearly amounts on our Theatrical Market pages are based on box office years. Each box office year starts on the first Monday of the year, so the previous year ends on the Sunday before the first Monday. For example, the "2017 box office year" started on January 2, 2017 so the "2016 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 1, 2017.