Adele's 25 beats FIFA 16 to become biggest entertainment seller in 2015
The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has released its entertainment chart for 2015 as well as retail revenue figures from the year across music, video and games titles.
According to ERA, the biggest entertainment seller of the year was Adele’s 25, released on November 20, which sold just over 2.6m copies in the six weeks to the end of the year (Source: Official Charts Company with 5% upweight on physical copies).
It narrowly beat the top game, FIFA 16, whose latest edition released in September 2015 sold 2.5m copies.
In the six years that ERA has compiled the Entertainment Chart, which includes the top selling music, video and games titles, only two music titles have topped the chart - both by Adele, with 2011's 21 selling 3.92m units.
ERA ENTERTAINMENT CHART 2015
25 Adele 2,604,850
FIFA 16 2,516,079
Call Of Duty: Black Ops III 1,928,813
Paddington 1,180,437
Fallout 4 1,126,929
Jurassic World 1,052,790
The Hobbit - Battle Of The Five Armies 1,021,059
Star Wars Battlefront 1,018,884
X Ed Sheeran 1,001,845
Grand Theft Auto V 998,726
In The Lonely Hour Sam Smith 925,147
If I Can Dream Elvis Presley 924,377
Fifty Shades Of Grey 909,152
Now! That's What I Call Music 92 841,800
Minions 816,917
Avengers - Age Of Ultron 804,652
Now! That's What I Call Music 90 784,719
Inside Out 780,246
Big Hero 6 Walt Disney Studios 766,164
The Hunger Games - Mockingjay - Pt 1 740,026