Today, the first set of figures to be released in 2024 by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Official Charts Company (OCC) crown Barbie as the queen of 2023 home entertainment. Today we’re taking a look at the top sellers on digital, DVD and Blu-ray for a year which saw Brits spend £4.9bn on our favourite titles.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was the UK’s biggest visual entertainment title across Theatrical and Home Entertainment, with a performance of £95.5m at the UK Box Office, as well as a value of over £9.5m across transactional Home Entertainment in 2023, through Premium EST (PEST) and Premium VOD (PVoD) releases in September 2023, and physical release in October 2023. This amounted to a collective consumer spend of just over £200 per minute on Greta Gerwig’s BARBIE across the year, across all visual formats, demonstrating the resonance of content across channels with savvy audiences as release windows continue to evolve.
Barbie is joined in the top five by John Wick: Chapter 4 which also topped the rental charts with 306K sales on VoD. This adds to its 388k sales across Disc and EST. Also featuring in the top five is James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water which becomes 2023’s highest performing EST and DISC title, with digital and physical ownership transactions at 560k units across the year, following a £52m performance at the UK Box Office, before it’s transactional and Disney+ premier in June 2023.
Here’s a look at the full top five:
Official Video Chart 2023 (All Digital; Blu-ray and DVD, EST, TVOD Jan-Sept)
1 BARBIE
2 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
3 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE
4 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
5 ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed Oppenheimer might be missing from the top five but was the biggest title across both disc formats in the UK in 2023, with a value of £1.1m on Blu-ray and £673k on DVD. Whilst DC fans can rejoice as Black Adam is named the biggest title on DVD, demonstrating the resonance and value of big family titles on the most affordable new release physical format, with 80k[1] units sold.
Here’s a look at both the DVD, Blu-ray and combined physical media charts:
Official Video Chart 2023 (All Blu-ray & DVD)
1 OPPENHEIMER
2 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
3 BLACK ADAM
4 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
5 TOP GUN: MAVERICK
Official DVD Chart 2023
1 BLACK ADAM
2 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
3 ELVIS
4 OPPENHEIMER
5 TOP GUN: MAVERICK
Official Blu-ray Chart 2023
1 OPPENHEIMER
2 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
3 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
4 BLACK ADAM
5 MISSON: IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PT 1
All data compiled and © Official Charts Company.
