The Official Charts Company is moving with the times, and has finally launched an Official Film Chart in the UK this week, which brings together sales from digital downlads across the likes of Amazon and iTunes alongside physical media such as DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD. The results are already quite eye-opening, and we’ll make it our business to keep an eye on the weekly updates from now on. They’re set to be published every Wednesday, and will deliver a weekly Top 40.
Not a massive shock: The Greatest Showman is the biggest seller in 2018 to date, with Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Avengers: Infinity War trailing at positions 2 and 3 respectively.
Here’s the home release Top ten in 2018 so far, via Yahoo UK:
1. The Greatest Showman
2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. Paddington 2
5. Peter Rabbit
6. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Black Panther
9. Deadpool 2
10. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
As you can see, Marvel has done very well when it comes to home releases in 2018, and there’s everything to play for on the run up to Christmas. It’s not surprising to see family fare in there, of course, but Kingsman: The Golden Circle is perhaps a bit of a surprise. Matthew Vaughn’s follow up to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service was received with mixed reviews earlier in the year, but it made almost $411 million off a $104 million budget, so combined with its home release success, we can start to get a better idea of how a third film in the franchise has cracked along so quickly.
All the films languishing behind Hugh Jackman’s audience-winning loose musical biopic of P.T. Barnum’s success story will have to do very well to knock it off the 2018 charts, though – back in July, it had already broken the UK record for the most digital copies sold, with 1.4 million units shifted overall, 33% of those in digital format.
This week, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is sitting atop the Top 40, but it still has some stiff competition from The Greatest Showman 43 weeks after its release.