Comments on: Heroes leads TV Show DVD Sales, Supernatural strong for week ending 9/6

By: rgcomer

rgcomer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:21:29 +0000

CW’s Supernatural Season 4
Cant say enough.. The acting, writing and effects were incredible. I am so happy for J2 and the crew to see those kind of numbers. I pre-ordered mine and Ive never even considered doing that for any other show.
Thanks to this site too for supplying this type of information!

By: DW

DW — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:03:46 +0000

What crazy masochists want to own Heroes season 3? Yikes.

By: double mint

double mint — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:57:22 +0000

There was a recent article on this site suggesting House and NCIS dvd sets went up in sales because of repeats on cable. According to the article, House Season 5 improved over its prior set’s sales going from 167k units sold to 223k units and improving revenue from $5.5million last year to over $6 million this year. NCIS Season 6 actually doubled both sales and revenue from 54,991 units to 126,506 until and sales of $2.11 million to $4.49 million.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/09/heavy-rotation-on-usa-network-helpingncis-house-dvd-sales/26516#more-26516

But, I think there must be something bigger going on in the market for tv on dvd sales.

True Blood Season 1 sales are incredible. They’ve sold 1.49 million units with estimated revenue of almost $52 million. And look at Supernatural. It’s not a new show and it isn’t on heavy rotation on cable, yet Supernatural’s Fourth season DVD set debut doubled sales from 104,979 units last year to 238,081 units this year and doubled its sales from $4.1 million to an estimated $8.7 million.

Earlier this year, I had read an article predicting really poor DVD sales due to the bad economy so it’s funny to see the DOUBLING of dvd sales for some shows or record breaking sales instead. I haven’t looked at other shows’ sales but those really stood out to me bc doubling sales is a big increase in a bad economy. It’s really hard for me to figure out why sales are so great. I’m wondering if the bad economy is making people stay home more and that’s why they’re buying so many tv shows on dvd and this is part of a bigger trend. I don’t know if there are other tv shows on dvd that fit this profile of significant increases from last year in sales. If so, the people predicting bad dvd sales may have missed that people will still want entertainment and they may figure it will end up being cheaper to buy tv shows on dvd rather than going out.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:47:25 +0000

Dexter is the best show on television.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:42:03 +0000

good news for supernatural. that’s a hit! cw is going to gain more from supernatural than gossip crap! or 9021crap or melrose crap!

By: Dillan

Dillan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:03:03 +0000

Cool, my mistake Bill!

I think the fact Smallville Season 8 isn’t especially discounted may also have something to do with the okay-but-could-be-better sales.

By: Dillan

Dillan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:01:28 +0000

Ryan, you’re not the only one.

On Kryptonsite, Season 8 was voted the Best Season with 32% of the vote, thrashing second-place Season 4 which had 15% of the vote.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:56:46 +0000

Dillan, Blu-ray sales are included in the above list. We don’t have separate numbers for Blu-ray though.

By: Dillan

Dillan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:54:42 +0000

People need to remember Smallville is a big Blu-ray draw (which is not included in the above chart) and has also had two pretty successful re-run slots throughout the summer.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:55:55 +0000

ummmmmm Stephan, as an avid watcher of both smallville since season1, season 8 was by far the best and most intense season of the series! and im sure im not the only one who thinks the same.

By: David

David — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:47:19 +0000

Sonny With a Chance sales, please? It’s the first dvd from the serie, I would love to know.

By: tvmegafan

tvmegafan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:29:43 +0000

Good for heroes, But Dang True Blood is STILL keeping on and on…I suspect AMAZING numers to come around christmas!!!

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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:32:56 +0000

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By: Uglyboy

Uglyboy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:19:09 +0000

Thanks Robert.

Grey’s Anatomy DVDs are as expensive as Desperate Housewives. Their numbers (season 5) should be available in two weeks. I’m curious…

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:22:46 +0000

Ugly, there are many dynamics involved, but the only one easily quantified is “price”. The Supernatural DVDs are ~$10-$12 cheaper than Desperate Housewives. How much of a factor that plays, with the difference in sales though I cannot quantify.

By: Uglyboy

Uglyboy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:15:44 +0000

I don’t undertsand Desperate Housewives numbers !

Only 78,085 units sold but 15 million people watch it on ABC
Supernatural sold 238,081 units for 3 million people on CW

I really don’t understand

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:02:04 +0000

Stephan – Yes, I felt the same. I bought Supernatural but I will wait to buy Smallville until it lowers in price, maybe around Christmas, if not, I can wait.

Awesome news for Supernatural! YaY!

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:06:41 +0000

Good for Heroes Season 3. I haven’t bought it yet though, I’m a poor college student

By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:22:20 +0000

As to Supernatural outselling Smallville, I have purchased every season of both, but S8 of Smallville was so horrible that I skipped it. I wonder if others felt the same as me.

By: Polly

Polly — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:28:24 +0000

Thanks Robert!! Hope this season has something to offer over last season (besides Fringe).

Thanks for the highlight on True Blood, that was worth checking out.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:18:46 +0000

Fillet of soled…

Polly!!!! We missed you, the TV season must be kicking into gear finally

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:18:13 +0000

Oh, that’s what I was going to fix. I knew I had spotted something somewhere but forgot where it was.

By: Polly

Polly — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:13:43 +0000

Yeah Supernatural! Glad to see good things for the show.

Robert- soled=sold Don’t you just hate spell check?

Thanks for all your hard work.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:34:25 +0000

DD, Criminal Minds DVD went on sale the week of Sept. 8, look for its data in next week’s post.

By: DD

DD — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:32:09 +0000

What about Criminal Minds? Every single time I tried to preorder they were always sold out-so that must be good for something.

By: Jessica.,

Jessica., — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:18:47 +0000

Nice to hear about Supernatural’s DVD sales.

By: johnthemon23

johnthemon23 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:23:10 +0000

yay! the DVD sales for Heroes prove it’s still a popular show. A lot of people I know just wait for the DVD to come out so they don’t have to wait a week for every episode.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:16:01 +0000

Bill, Robert,

You can get Blu-ray numbers at:
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/high-definition-smackdown/77119-2009-blu-ray-sales-metrics-stats-nielsen-videoscan-hmm-charts-ratios-bestsellers-etc-61.html

They break them down typically on Wed/Thurs.

By: max452

max452 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:10:04 +0000

Good for Heroes, even though its not as good as season 1 now, season 3 was an improvement over season 2. I am hopeful for the new season!

That said, I’m sure all the Heroes haters will be coming out of the woodwork soon enough….

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:02 +0000

it’s not about prose in this case, but relative comparisons, especially to previous years.

The data is already in a table on the-numbers.com. Taking out just the TV shows which were already easy to spot and putting them into a separate table doesn’t add much value.

The relative comparisons probably don’t add much value either, but that’s another story

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:51:50 +0000

Nice to see word of mouth is spreading about Supernatural and it’s translating into DVD sales.

I’m surprised Heroes did so well considering its lackluster season.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:47:09 +0000

Julia, “Did Nielsen take away the charts for DVD sales, too?”

No. I guess Robert decided not to include it. I’ll toss it in later today. He likes writing the prose a lot more than I do. Were it me, I’d *just* do the table

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:44:54 +0000

Sandro, we don’t have *separate* blu-ray numbers.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:44:45 +0000

Julia, haha, no. But there didn’t seem like much point in reinventing the wheel from the-numbers.com. Sandro, we don’t see anything other than what’s available from the-numbers.com and it does not breakout Blu-ray sales.

By: Sandro

Sandro — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:21:06 +0000

Do you have Blu-ray charts too?

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:19:52 +0000

Pete, they include Blu-ray.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:13:01 +0000

Just wondering if these are strictly DVD sales, or also include Blu-ray? I bought Supernatural S4 (and S3 for that matter) on Blu-ray. I know the industry usually dilineates between DVD & BD when quoting sales figures.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:10:08 +0000

Did Nielsen take away the charts for DVD sales, too?

By: ebas

ebas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:51:49 +0000

ryan, Supernatural did in fact outperform Smallville:

Supernatural: 238,081 units, $8,670,910
Smallville: 206,341 units, $7,529,383

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:37:19 +0000

did supernatural sell more first week then smallville? i cant remember what smallville sold, im thinking it was something liek 181k but im probably wrong, cuz i doubt supernatural would outsell smallville…. anyone know?

By: Kathy B.

Kathy B. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:08:01 +0000

Great news for Supernatural. It’s an awesome show that not enough people are watching.

By: joshua f

joshua f — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:01:43 +0000

yes! great for desperate housewives

well done to hereoes. heres hoping it lasts 100 episodes

roll on desperate housewives season 6!!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:20:08 +0000

Great news that the Desperate Housewives DVD sales are up this season!

By: mark wood

mark wood — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:10:17 +0000

Thats two years in a row that Supernaturals initial DVD sales doubled from the previous year. And its the first time since they started these charts that Smallville wasn’t the best selling release from either the WB/UPn or the CW.

By: tdot

tdot — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:18:35 +0000

i don’t like the change in cover art for heroes between season 1 and 2, 3