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Black Ops Bests Avatar in Entertainment in U.K.

Posted April 14, 2011 by Ben Strauss

Call of Duty: Black Ops has hit the big time with sales, scoring just under 3.3 million units sold in the U.K.  That number puts it as the top entertainment property of 2010 for the U.K. market.  By comparison, Avatar only managed to take in just over 3 million units.

The list of top properties, courtesy of ERA data through MCV, show that games had an overall strong presence in the world of entertainment.  FIFA 11 placed third, beating out Pixar’s Toy Story 3 by just over 300K units. 

The full list:

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops [Activision Blizzard] – 3,266,298
  2. Avatar [20th Century Fox] – 3,001,769
  3. FIFA 11 [Electronic Arts] – 2,390,231
  4. Toy Story 3 [Walt Disney Studios] – 2,082,461
  5. Progress (Take That) [Universal Music] – 1,933,205
  6. The Twilight Saga: New Moon [Entertainment One] – 1,889,187
  7. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [Entertainment One] – 1,334,490
  8. Inception [Warner Home Video] – 1,328,290
  9. Just Dance [Ubisoft] – 1,305,338
  10. 2012 [Sony Pictures] – 1,298,705
  11. Crazy Love (Michael Buble) [Warner Music] – 1,289,304
  12. Now That's What I Call Music 77 [EMI Music/UniversalMusic] – 1,255,006
  13. The Hurt Locker [Elevation Sales] – 1,247,604
  14. Up [Walt Disney Studios] – 1,236,066
  15. Sherlock Holmes [Warner Home Video] – 1,217,637
  16. Red Dead Redemption [Take-Two] – 1,135,559
  17. The Fame (Lady Gaga) [Universal Music] – 1,104,504
  18. The Hangover [Warner Home Video] – 1,024,546
  19. Alice In Wonderland [Walt Disney Studios] – 943,220
  20. Shrek Forever After - The Final Chapter [Paramount] – 928,726

 

Ben is a recent graduate of Xavier University.  You can see him ramble on about gaming, gamification, military-related gaming and manly things on his Twitter @Sinner101GR.




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