Britain’s Entertainment Retailers Association has released a list of the top ten selling entertainment products in 2009 and topping the list isModern Warfare 2. The game has sold 2.9 million copies in the UK, beating unit sales of major releases such asTwilightandQuantum of Solaceon DVD.
Second place went toHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but the distance is considerable with only 2.2 million units sold. The top three is rounded out withFIFA 10, a mere fifty thousand copies less than the sorcery-filled film.
We always talk about how big the games industry is getting, but these numbers still manage to stagger me.Modern Warfare 2didn’t have very much time to amass sales in 2009, so to hit the absolute peak of sales for Britain in that time is impressive to say the least.
On a semi-related side note, Lady Gaga’s debut album,The Fame, landed in the eighth spot with 1.4 million sales. Of course, that album was released in the third quarter of2008, so it certainly has to be a much bigger success than the list might lead you to believe. Rightly so.
The full list of entertainment products and their sales numbers resides below the fold.
MW2 is 2009’s entertainment champ[MCV viaCVG]
1.COD: Modern Warfare 2(Activision) – 2,926,637game2.Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince(Warner) – 2,193,700video3.FIFA 10(EA) – 2,155,697game4.Quantum of Solace(Fox) – 2,040,229video5.Twilight(E1 Ent) – 1,815,543video6.Susan Boyle: I Dreamed A Dream(Sony) – 1,714,369music7.Wii Sports Resort(Nintendo) – 1,488,797game8.Lady GaGa: The Fame(Universal) – 1,458,289music9.Slumdog Millionaire(Fox) – 1,383,838video10.Transformers Revenge Fallen(Paramount) – 1,362,020video
