In another week with a lot of new TV show DVD releases, House lead the pack in unit sales (223,000), with Smallville in second place (183,000). Dexter, last week’s leader fell to #6.
After 15 weeks, the first season of True Blood is has now (on a revenue basis) moved up to the 9th best selling DVD of the season. No other TV shows are in the top 50 overall for the year. And although its far below its initial levels, this week’s sales were 28% above last weeks.
Also launching DVD sales this week were NCIS, One Tree Hill, Scrubs, and WWE: The Rise and Fall of WCW.
US TV Show DVD Sales for Week Ending August 30, 2009:
| Title | Units this Week | % Change | Total Units | Sales this Week | Total Sales | Weeks in Release |
| House, M.D. – Season Five | 223,351 | 223,351 | $6,028,243 | $6,028,243 | 1 | |
| Smallville: The Complete Eighth Season | 182,894 | 182,894 | $6,673,802 | $6,673,802 | 1 | |
| NCIS: The Complete Sixth Season | 126,506 | 126,506 | $4,489,698 | $4,489,698 | 1 | |
| One Tree Hill: The Complete Sixth Season | 109,027 | 109,027 | $3,923,882 | $3,923,882 | 1 | |
| Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season | 97,130 | 97,130 | $2,524,409 | $2,524,409 | 1 | |
| Dexter – The Complete Third Season | 94,278 | -68.30% | 391,858 | $2,713,321 | $8,789,904 | 2 |
| WWE: The Rise and Fall of WCW | 77,615 | 77,615 | $1,823,176 | $1,823,176 | 1 | |
| The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season | 53,902 | -67.70% | 220,690 | $1,724,325 | $7,059,873 | 2 |
| True Blood: The Complete First Season | 49,217 | 28% | 1,422,232 | $1,722,103 | $49,552,792 | 15 |
| Sons of Anarchy – Season One | 44,304 | -50.90% | 134,539 | $1,417,285 | $4,303,903 | 2 |
| Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Series | 38,451 | -63.10% | 142,740 | $1,441,528 | $5,225,133 | 2 |
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You can see past weekly lists of TV Show DVD Sales numbers here.
Source: the-numbers.com
Wow, True Blood is getting insane. I’m really looking forward to see the Vampire Diary’s ratings to see what is going on.
can’t wait for regular seasonnnnnnnnnn ratingss!!!!
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!
Go House, Go Dexter, Go True Blood!! I like these numbers
Poor Gossip Girl. You would think they would make up for the low ratings by a lot of DVD sales, but not the case. It won’t be canceled, but if the CW were to close down after this season it probably wouldn’t be picked up by any other network.
Why would a show with low ratings (though good for its network) have high DVD sales? It doesn’t make sense.
On another note, Gossip Girl sold a lot more DVDs in its first week (last week) than Dollhouse did in its first week. What does that say about Dollhouse’s performance? Can’t be good!
Another week like this and TB will be past $51 million, closing in on Heroes S1 and Planet Earth numbers.
The ups and downs of the weekly figures suggest that the future sales will be unpredictable as the plots.
Perhaps the weird egg in Sookie’s house holds whoever is buying all the DVDs.
Ima big fan of Smalllville but the prices of the blu-ray are unacceptible 69$ im gonna buy it but wait a few months itll go down in price like season 7 did and im so happy with the true blood sales! i hope dollhouse picks up, love season 1, got the blu-ray myself.