wraggster
July 20th, 2009, 19:55
Following its modest chart entrance at number ten two weeks ago, sales of EA's Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince have picked up enough to take the game to the number one position in this week's UK sales chart.
Bolstered by the wizard's cinema success, the game has enjoyed a five per cent rise in sales - enough to snatch the top spot from last week's number one, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, according to the latest Gfk Chart Track figures.
Also enjoying chart rises this week are Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which rose from number three to number two, despite a four per cent dip in sales, and Wii Fit, which moved back up two chart places.
But neither publisher of those titles (Activision Blizzard and Nintendo respectively) can match EA's current chart streak which - including its Harry Potter number one - sees the publisher with five games in the top ten this week. For six of the past seven weeks, an EA title has been at the top of the chart.
Elsewhere, Ubisoft's Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood dropped one place to number six, with a sales decline of 27 per cent, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare continued to outsell newer game World At War, perhaps helped by a lower price point.
Nintendo title Rhythm Paradise saw the biggest sales increase aided by a TV advert starring Beyoncé - up 96 per cent to take it to chart position number 21.
01 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
02 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
03 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
04 Wii Fit
05 Fight Night Round 4
06 Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
07 The Sims 3
08 Virtua Tennis 2009
09 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10 EA Sports Active
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/harry-potter-tops-uk-all-formats-chart
Bolstered by the wizard's cinema success, the game has enjoyed a five per cent rise in sales - enough to snatch the top spot from last week's number one, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, according to the latest Gfk Chart Track figures.
Also enjoying chart rises this week are Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which rose from number three to number two, despite a four per cent dip in sales, and Wii Fit, which moved back up two chart places.
But neither publisher of those titles (Activision Blizzard and Nintendo respectively) can match EA's current chart streak which - including its Harry Potter number one - sees the publisher with five games in the top ten this week. For six of the past seven weeks, an EA title has been at the top of the chart.
Elsewhere, Ubisoft's Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood dropped one place to number six, with a sales decline of 27 per cent, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare continued to outsell newer game World At War, perhaps helped by a lower price point.
Nintendo title Rhythm Paradise saw the biggest sales increase aided by a TV advert starring Beyoncé - up 96 per cent to take it to chart position number 21.
01 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
02 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
03 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
04 Wii Fit
05 Fight Night Round 4
06 Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
07 The Sims 3
08 Virtua Tennis 2009
09 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10 EA Sports Active
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/harry-potter-tops-uk-all-formats-chart