Call of Duty: Black Ops II was 2012’s biggest selling entertainment ti

Music loses out to video games in 2012’s biggest selling entertainment tiles chart.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops II was the UK’s biggest-selling entertainment title in 2012 with sales of 2.7m copies, according to data published by the Entertainment Retailers Association.

It sold over one million copies more than the biggest-selling video title of the year, The Dark Knight Rises, and 1.2m copies more than the biggest-selling album, Emeli Sande’s Our Version of Events.

2011’s biggest-selling entertainment title was Adele’s 21 which sold 3.9m units during that year. In 2012 it sold a further 816,317 copies to become the seventeenth biggest-selling entertainment title of the year.

The 2012 Entertainment Chart, combining sales of the best-selling music, video and games titles, sees video accounting for 23 titles in the Top 40, with music taking 10 and games seven.

Overall sales of the Top 40 titles plunged by 25% compared with the previous year. In 2011 some 19 titles sold over one million units; in 2012 there were just eight. The 2011 Entertainment Top 40 generated sales of 49.3m units; in 2012 the total was just 36.9m units.

“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,” said ERA Director General, Kim Bayley. “Luckily, 2013 has got off to a good start with Skyfall already selling more than 2m copies – way ahead of last year’s biggest-selling video, The Dark Knight Rises.”

The 2012 Entertainment Top 40 is as follows:

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