London 2012 Olympics makes history as biggest selling sport highlights

Olympic Games DVD is first sport highlights disc to sell over 600,000 units in UK.
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Olympic Games DVD is first sport highlights disc to sell over 600,000 units in UK.

The London 2012 Olympic Games has set a new record of its own – producing the biggest selling sport highlights release of all time.

The Official Charts Company confirms the record breaking feat today, as the UK begins to celebrate the first anniversary of the launch of the London Olympics on July 27 2012.

The Olympic release (which was released by BBC Worldwide last October) has to date sold a grand total of 651,000 copies on Blu-ray and DVD, a tally which makes it the first sports highlights disc to sell in excess of 600,000 units in the UK.

One year on from that amazing summer of sport, British sport is enjoying another great summer – this week sees the release of Wimbledon: Official 2013 Gentlemen’s Final, featuring highlights of Andy Murray’s historic victory over Novak Djokovic last month.

In turn, continued success by England in the Ashes cricket series will result in another hit DVD/Blu-ray release later this summer. The Ashes 2005 DVD/Blu-ray is the second biggest selling highlights selling 502,000 copies to date. Along with London 2012 release, it is the only other sports highlights release to sell more than half-a-million copies on disc format.

Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot says, “London 2012 had a massive impact on the British public and their enthusiasm in embracing the event is underlined by the massive success of the highlights release. Its success emphasises just how much we all enjoyed that great summer of sport – so much so, that we wanted to watch it again and again, even once the events had evaporated into history.

“It also means that, having watched so many records being broken last summer, everyone who bought this incredible DVD/Blu-Ray of sporting history have helped break an all-time record themselves.”

Official Sports Highlights DVD/Blu-ray Top 10 – all-time

1 LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES
2 THE ASHES 2005 - THE GREATEST SERIES
3 RUGBY WORLD CUP 2003 - OFFICIAL REVIEW
4 ENGLAND RUGBY - SWEET CHARIOT
5 LIVERPOOL FC - THE ROAD TO ISTANBUL
6 IAN WRIGHT - IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A
7 GERMANY 1 ENGLAND 5 - WORLD CUP
8 SOCCER AM 2 - THE TEN GREATEST PLAYERS
9 SOCCER AM
10 LIVERPOOL - CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE 2005

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