Call of Duty named UK's bestselling entertainment release of 2012March 14, 2013 - 14:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was the UK's biggest selling entertainment release of last year - beating the top-selling music album, by Emeli Sande, by 1.2 million copies, according to BBC News. Activision's game sold almost 2.7 million copies, and was closely followed in the chart by EA's Fifa 13. Film titles The Dark Knight Rises and The Twilight Saga took third and fourth spot. Overall, sales of entertainment products were down 12% year-on-year. In what has been described by the Entertainment Retail Association (ERA) as a "poor" year across the board, sales of the Top 40 titles were down 25% when compared to last year's big hitters. Kim Bayley, director of the ERA, blamed the slump on a weak year with few blockbuster hits. "2012 was a tough year for entertainment due to a number of factors, but this sharp 25% shrinkage in sales of the biggest titles suggests that the quality of releases was at least partly to blame. Luckily 2013 has got off to a good start with Skyfall already selling more than two million copies - way ahead of last year's biggest-selling video, The Dark Knight Rises." Skyfall, the latest James Bond film, is on course to beat Call of Duty's tally within just a couple of months of its release, the ERA said. Sande's Our Version of Events was the top-selling music title by some considerable distance, aside from two "Now That's What I Call Music" compilations. Other video games making a strong showing include Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 3 - which shifted 886,198 copies - and Microsoft's Halo 4, with 753,489. The chart also showed a strong showing for television series Mrs Brown's Boys. The chart aggregates sales data from the Official Charts Company and GFK Chart-track to determine the year's standings. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. EU still discussing funding Armenia through European Peace Facility Discussions continue in the EU on providing Armenia with funds from the European Peace Facility, Vassilis Maragos says. |