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Top Gun: Maverick

‘Top Gun’ Movies Ruled 2022 U.K. Home Entertainment Sales, Rentals

January 5, 2023

Paramount Home Entertainment’s Top Gun movie franchise dominated 2022 U.K. home entertainment sales and rentals, according to new data released Jan. 5 by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and the Official Charts Company.

Top Gun: Maverick was the biggest-selling home entertainment title in 2022, with more than 1.2 million sales across DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and digital sellthrough. The original Top Gun (1986) was the most-rented title with nearly half a million digital transactions. 

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Spider-Man: No Way Home (the 2021 global box office champ) finished No. 2 with more than 900,000 sales across DVD, Blu-ray and digital sales, plus a rental performance of more than 450,000 transactional VOD units. 

BASE said more than 50 titles were released on premium VOD and sellthrough.

Meanwhile, subscription VOD continues to resonate with U.K. consumers, who ended 2022 with nearly 50 million subscriptions, up 6.4% from 2021. Disney+ and Netflix introduced lower-cost ad-supported options, while Paramount+ launched in the U.K., and FAST channels like Paramount’s Pluto TV continued to grow. Animated musical Encanto was the best-selling children’s title alongside it’s release on Disney+. 

HBO Max’s “House of the Dragon” dominated the TV charts, snatching the No. 1 spot with its home video release at Christmas. Longtime British favorite series, “Doctor Who” also dominated the TV disc chart with three titles in the top 10, including the last series starring Jodie Whittaker in the title role in “Doctor Who: Flux,” and “The Abominable Snowmen,” animated episodes of the lost classic set to the surviving 1967 audio recordings. 

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s Downton Abbey: A New Era underscored the resilience of DVD with more than 190,000 unit sales.  BASE said that more than 680 million DVDs have been sold over the last 10 years. In 2022, more than 40% of packaged-media sales were Blu-ray Disc and 4K UHD Blu-ray, with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s 2021 release Dune the top-selling title for the high-definition format. 

 “U.K. home entertainment has evolved at an electrifying speed to meet the needs of savvy audiences,” Liz Bales, CEO of BASE, said in a statement.

Bales said that with myriad home entertainment distribution choices, the box office still remains the greatest indicator of movie’s retail success.

“So, it was fantastic to see Top Gun: Maverick convert its outstanding cinema performance into the biggest sales of the year, and the original Top Gun prove once again that audiences love nostalgia,” Bales said. 

Official Video Chart 2022 (Blu-ray Disc and DVD, Digital Sellthrough, TVOD)

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  3. No Time to Die (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Top Gun (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  5. Uncharted (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

 

Official Video Chart 2022 (All Digital Retail; Blu-ray Disc and DVD, Digital Sellthrough)

  1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. Dune (2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  4. The Batman (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  5. Ghostbusters – Afterlife (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

 

Official Video Chart 2022 (All Blu-ray Disc & DVD)

  1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. No Time to Die (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Dune (2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  5. The Batman (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)

 

Official DVD Chart 2022

  1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  2. Downton Abbey: A New Era (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. No Time to Die (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  5. Elvis (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)

 

Official Blu-ray Disc Chart 2022

  1. Dune (2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. The Batman (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  4. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  5. No Time to Die (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)

 

Official Film Download Chart: Digital Sellthrough 2022

  1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. Sing 2 (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Ghostbusters – Afterlife (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  5. Dune (2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)

 

Official Film Download Chart: Digital Rental 2022

  1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. Uncharted (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  5. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

 

Official Film on Video Chart 2022

  1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Dune (2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  5. The Batman (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)

 

Official Children’s Video Chart 2022

  1. Encanto (Walt Disney Home Entertainment)
  2. Sing 2 (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. Minions: The Rise of Gru (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  4. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Paramount Home Entertainment) 
  5. The Boss Baby 2: Family Business (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)

 

Official Catalog Video Chart 2022 on Disc

  1. Dune (2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  2. No Time to Die (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
  3. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Home Entertainment)
  4. The Batman (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
  5. Encanto (Walt Disney Home Entertainment)

 

Top-Selling Boxed Sets (Disc and Digital Sellthrough)

  1. Harry Potter: The Complete Collection
  2. Jurassic World: Ultimate Collection
  3. The Hobbit Trilogy
  4. The Godfather Trilogy
  5. Hobbit Trilogy/Lord of the Rings Trilogy

 

© The British Association for Screen Entertainment, The Official Charts

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