Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-05: Despicable Me and Bad Boys' "fourquels" top the charts, while 4K's slice of the pie decreases to less than 10%!
Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-05: Despicable Me and Bad Boys' "fourquels" top the charts, while 4K's slice of the pie decreases to less than 10%!
Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs
- Despicable Me 4
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die
- Longlegs
- Inside Out 2
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- The Fall Guy
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Bad Boys 4-Movie Collection
- The Boy and the Heron
- Dune: Part Two
- The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
- The West Wing: The Complete Series
- Civil War
- The Garfield Movie
- Abigail
- IF
- The Thing
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
- Salem's Lot (1979)
Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)
Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die
- Longlegs
- Despicable Me 4
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
- The Thing
- Paramount Scares Vol. 2
- The Fifth ELement
- Stardust
- Sleepy Hollow
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- The Boy and the Heron
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- The Fall Guy
- The Blob (1988)
- Imaginary
- Halloween
- Body Double
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)
Top 10 HD Formats Disc Share Per Title
- Despicable Me 4 (43%)
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die (40%)
- Longlegs (50%)
- Inside Out 2 (39%)
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (36%)
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (48%)
- Beetlejuice (7$)
- Addams Family/Addams Family Values (18%)
- The Fall Guy (52%)
- Despicable Me 4-Movie Collection (4%)
Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)
Further Reading:
Until I started seeing this graphic weekly on all, I greatly overestimated blu-ray's market share. I find it surprising given the ubiquity of higher definition televisions and blu-ray players.
As stated in previous threads, there are lots of reasons why DVDs are still popular today:
- Unawareness of, or indifference to, DVDs' subpar video/audio quality.
- For most people, DVDs "just work".
- Studios and manufacturers did a poor job of educating the public about the different formats.
- Streaming/digital is too convenient for the public to consider physical media.
- People are unable/unwilling to upgrade their tech.
- DVDs are cheaper and more ubiquitous than Blu-rays and 4K UHD discs.
Also people bought them many years ago and they are still chugging along, so they have no desire to upgrade.