Season 4 DVD Moves More Than Half a Million Units

A couple of weeks back, we reported that Game of Thrones Season 4 DVD sales in the UK had smashed records. The US sales report the next week by Variety announced that the Season 4 DVDs was also Number 1 in the states upon release. There was one little detail that bothered me. The report was based on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which doesn’t actually include any hard data behind its lists.

Exactly how many DVD/BluRay of Game of Thrones did sell that first week? Well the numbers are in at The Numbers, and the answers are pretty impressive.

Here’s the chart:

In its first week, Season 4 moved over half a million units. That’s really impressive. It’s even more so, if you look back at the 2014 DVD and BluRay sales and see that Season 3–which was considered a record breaker for HBO across the board, only sold 700,00 by the time it was done:

Now the fact is, most of us ran out that first week and bought the DVD, so it’s uncertain how many more units the show might move in the next five weeks before Season 5 officially hits the airwaves. (Actually, four weeks, six days, but who’s counting? Oh, right. Me.) We’ll have to check next week’s numbers and see how far it fell. But though this may not have broken any log standing records in the US like it did in the UK, it proof that Game of Thrones’ popularity is still on the up and up.

• Published on 03/09/2015 at 8:00 AM CDT
• Last updated on 10/21/2016 at 1:06 PM CDT