The NHL: Stanley Cup 2008-2009 Champions: Pittsburgh Penguins opened at the #2 position for TV show DVD unit sales. I'm confident it was the #1 seller across western Pennsylvania. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts on our list.
In its second week, Entourage - The Complete Fifth Season was still the #1 DVD unit seller among TV shows, but its numbers fell 58% from its first week. It may not be on the list we see much longer.
This year's reigning TV show DVD leader, True Blood: The Complete First Season, saw its unit sales drop just 11% to just under 45,000 for the week, and has sold over 1.1 million units in its 8 weeks on the market.
Weeds - Season Four popped back onto the list for the third time. It's sold nearly 380,000 units, and has been on our list 4 weeks out of the 6 its been on sale. Family Guy - Volume 7 has sold 366,000 in 4 weeks and soon may be popping on and off the list like Weeds. Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Fifth Season unit sales dropped almost 68% in its second week. This is likely its last week on our chart.
Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season dropped off the list after only one week. Next week DVD sales begin for ER - The Complete Eleventh Season.
US TV Show DVD Sales for Week Ending July 12, 2009
| Title | Units this Week | % Change | Total Units | Sales this Week | Total Sales | Weeks in Release |
| Entourage - The Complete Fifth Season | 71,045 | -58% | 238,069 | $1,242,577 | $5,294,579 | 2 |
| NHL: Stanley Cup 2008-2009 Champions: Pittsburgh Penguins | 64,628 | 64,628 | $1,291,914 | $1,291,914 | 1 | |
| True Blood: The Complete First Season | 44,838 | -11.20% | 1,116,386 | $1,389,530 | $38,572,513 | 8 |
| Weeds - Season Four | 44,297 | 377,087 | $708,309 | $8,992,077 | 6 | |
| Family Guy - Volume 7 | 40,741 | -16.70% | 366,201 | $916,265 | $9,864,010 | 4 |
| Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Fifth Season | 34,324 | -67.70% | 140,485 | $977,891 | $4,275,251 | 2 |
| 24 - Season Seven | 530,935 | $17,435,862 | 8 |
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You can see past weekly lists of TV Show DVD Sales numbers here.
Source: the-numbers.com
This covers the week after the mini-marathon of True Blood over the July 4th weekend. It could be that the shallow dropoff is due to the extra week giving new viewers more time to remember to find the season one DVDs.
Was there a similar two-week gap for Weeds?
Damn…Mad Men didn’t even make the Top 30?!!
No JS, Mad Men is released on July 21st (today). Notice this data goes through June 12th. We’ll have to wait two weeks to see how Mad Men does.
Oops, a week off. Mad Men’s out on the 14th. So it’ll be on next week’s chart.
Pushing Daisies: The Complete Second Season comes out today!!!!!