With 2015 over the Entertainment Retailers Association of the UK has put out its Entertainment Chart.
Usually games and movies are the biggest hits in terms of sales numbers.
Not so much in 2015.
Adele’s ’25’ – which MBW estimates turned over more than £20m (US $29m) at retail in the UK last year alone – outsold all competition per unit in the market.
According to ERA’s chart, based on more official data plus its equivalents in the video games and movie markets, ’25’ outsold annual video game update FIFA 16 by 88,771 copies.
As for the latest Call Of Duty, Black Ops III, 25 was way out ahead – it outsold the Activision Blizzard title by a very comfortable 676,037.
Of course, it’s probably best for the music business’s ego not to work out what the turnover was of these titles. Let’s keep the euphoria going.
Let’s just quietly consider the fact that the average UK album sells for about $15, while the average boxed ‘triple-A’ video game goes for closer to $50.
Ed Sheeran’s X was the second highest-selling music product in 2015, according to the ERA chart, with just over 1m unit sales in the year.