In Spring 2008, HMM started releasing relative and (later) absolute sales figures for BD and also DVD.
Code:
Week Top20% BD$ BDYTD$ DVD$ DVDYTD$ $% $%YTD
01/04 16 24.33 24.33 132.83 132.83 15.5 15.5
01/11 13 18.72 43.05 110.78 243.61 14.5 15.0
01/18 12 10.56 53.61 98.37 341.98 9.7 13.6
01/25 17 15.66 69.27 108.96 450.94 12.6 13.3
02/01 14 10.27 79.54 115.36 566.30 8.2 12.3
02/08 7 11 90.54 142.11 708.41 7.2 11.3
02/15 8 10.78 101.32 153.35 861.76 6.6 10.5
02/22 10 13.28 114.6 141.64 1003.4 8.6 10.2
03/01 8 11.85 126.45 138.21 1141.61 7.9 10.0
03/08 10 10.61 137.06 134.84 1276.45 7.9 9.7
03/15 12 16.75 153.81 154.31 1430.76 9.8 9.7
03/22 9 18.79 172.6 175.67 1606.43 9.7 9.7
03/29 13 24.03 196.63 196.10 1802.53 10.9 9.8
04/05 10 17.24 213.87 182.40 1984.93 8.6 9.7
04/12 7 19.56 233.43 239.14 2224.07 8.2 9.5
BD$: million dollars spent by consumers on BD during the week
DVD$: million dollars spent by consumers on DVD during the week
$%: expenditure on BD vs expenditure on DVD
Top20%: Top 20 BD unit volume vs Top 20 DVD unit volume
Comparison of 2009 vs 2008 revenue:
Code:
Month 2008 2009 %Change
January 33.66 69.26 +106%
February 31.29 45.33 +45%
March 52.25 82.03 +57%
April (3w) 24.00 47.59 +98%
Credit to marzetta7 for running the Nielsen data during the format war.