Emmy darling Mad Men was also the DVD sales darling its first week in release with nearly 100,000 units sold. Although, that's not a particularly impressive first week total. True Blood and 24 both had much more impressive first week sales.
I'd never heard of The State, the #2 DVD seller for the week. It aired on MTV about 15 years ago, way past my MTV viewing days.
2009's TV show DVD sales leader, True Blood: The Complete First Season, saw its unit sales increase 8% to just under 50,000 for the week. It keeps hanging on and is now the #15 DVD seller by revenue for the year. 24 is the only other TV show on the year's top 50 at #45.
Four other titles are near the bottom of the overall top 30 DVD sellers and could all be in the last week we will see their sales information. Weeds - Season Four has sold 414,000 units, and has been on our list 5 weeks out of the 7 its been on sale. Family Guy - Volume 7 has sold 406,480 in 5 weeks . Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Fifth Season unit sales dropped to 38,988 in its third week. In its third week, Entourage - The Complete Fifth Season unit sales fell 47% to 37,164.
Even though it was the first week of sales for ER - The Complete Eleventh Season it didn't appear on the top 30 seller list that we see. NHL: Stanley Cup 2008-2009 Champions: Pittsburgh Penguins fell off the list after only one week.
Next week we will see the opening week DVD sales numbers for Monk - Season Seven, Prison Break - The Final Break, Psych: The Complete Second Season, Pushing Daisies - The Complete Second Season, and Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods.
US TV Show DVD Sales for Week Ending July 19, 2009
| Title | Units this Week | % Change | Total Units | Sales this Week | Total Sales | Weeks in Release |
| Mad Men: Season 2 | 94,774 | 94,774 | $3,173,981 | $3,173,981 | 1 | |
| The State: The Complete Series | 51,555 | 51,555 | $1,803,909 | $1,803,909 | 1 | |
| True Blood: The Complete First Season | 48,528 | 8.20% | 1,164,914 | $1,618,409 | $40,190,922 | 9 |
| Family Guy - Volume 7 | 40,279 | -1.10% | 406,480 | $836,998 | $10,701,008 | 5 |
| Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Fifth Season | 38,988 | 13.60% | 179,473 | $1,018,756 | $5,294,008 | 3 |
| Weeds - Season Four | 37,205 | -16.00% | 414,292 | $515,289 | $9,507,366 | 7 |
| Entourage - The Complete Fifth Season | 37,164 | -47.70% | 275,233 | $602,057 | $5,896,636 | 3 |
| 24 - Season Seven | 538,649 | $17,630,872 | 9 |
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You can see past weekly lists of TV Show DVD Sales numbers here.
Source: the-numbers.com
