June 3rd, 2020
It could be a really expensive week on the home market, as there are a number of prime releases, as well as a few potential hidden gems. The Blu-ray special releases of Glengarry Glen Ross, Jaws, and One Cut of the Dead are all worth picking up, especially if you don’t already own the film on Blu-ray. The lack of impressive extras hurt Harley Quinn: The Complete First Season and Sound! Euphonium - Our Promise: A Brand New Day, but I still pre-ordered both of them. As for Pick-of-the-Week contenders, there were three titles battling for that honor: Star Trek: Short Treks, Tokyo Godfathers, and Watchmen: An HBO Limited Series. In the end, Watchmen gets the prize, but it was a close call.
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Weekly US DVD Sales
| Date | Rank | Units
this
Week | % Change | Total
Units | Spending
this
Week | Total
Spending | Weeks
in
Release |
|---|
| Nov 18, 2018 | 11 | 26,348 | | 26,348 | $737,481 | $737,481 | 61 |
| Dec 9, 2018 | 30 | 17,752 | | 59,475 | $457,114 | $1,613,246 | 64 |
| Jan 20, 2019 | 24 | 11,734 | | 129,048 | $323,272 | $3,425,871 | 70 |
| Nov 17, 2019 | 14 | 24,505 | | 24,505 | $734,905 | $734,905 | 113 |
| Jul 25, 2021 | 12 | 10,437 | | 10,437 | $375,210 | $375,210 | 201 |
| Aug 1, 2021 | 19 | 5,586 | -46% |
16,023 | $200,817 | $576,027 | 202 |
| Aug 8, 2021 | 20 | 2,843 | -49% |
18,866 | $102,206 | $678,233 | 203 |
| Dec 11, 2022 | 18 | 12,982 | | 12,982 | $368,299 | $368,299 | 273 |
Weekly US Blu-ray Sales
| Date | Rank | Units
this
Week | % Change | Total
Units | Spending
this
Week | Total
Spending | Weeks
in
Release |
|---|
| Nov 18, 2018 | 7 | 29,009 | | 29,009 | $1,018,208 | $1,018,208 | 61 |
| Nov 17, 2019 | 5 | 62,947 | | 62,947 | $2,202,517 | $2,202,517 | 113 |
| Nov 24, 2019 | 14 | 11,031 | -82% |
73,978 | $385,982 | $2,588,499 | 114 |
| Jul 25, 2021 | 5 | 21,688 | | 21,688 | $779,684 | $779,684 | 201 |
| Aug 1, 2021 | 10 | 6,720 | -69% |
28,408 | $241,584 | $1,021,268 | 202 |
| Aug 8, 2021 | 14 | 4,041 | -40% |
32,449 | $145,274 | $1,166,542 | 203 |
| Dec 11, 2022 | 6 | 16,974 | | 16,974 | $597,655 | $597,655 | 273 |
Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.
For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.
We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.
Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.
