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Market Share for Each Genre in 2021

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Note: This chart ranks genres by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2021. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2021. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2020 will most likely earn money in 2020 and 2021.

Top Grossing of 2021

RankGenreMovies2021 GrossTicketsShare
1 Action 46 $2,299,891,208 226,144,650 50.94%
2 Adventure 26 $700,331,090 68,862,439 15.51%
3 Horror 50 $583,265,852 57,351,587 12.92%
4 Comedy 58 $360,876,255 35,484,367 7.99%
5 Drama 120 $227,842,440 22,403,337 5.05%
6 Musical 5 $149,630,839 14,712,964 3.31%
7 Thriller/Suspense 40 $140,857,154 13,850,247 3.12%
8 Documentary 48 $16,273,466 1,600,123 0.36%
9 Concert/Performance 3 $14,742,812 1,449,636 0.33%
10 Black Comedy 2 $10,097,184 992,840 0.22%
11 Western 4 $9,161,627 900,847 0.20%
12 Romantic Comedy 7 $1,358,954 133,622 0.03%
13 Multiple Genres 2 $455,295 44,768 0.01%

Our Theatrical Market pages are based on the Domestic Theatrical Market performance only. The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).

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.