Mamma Mia! becomes biggest selling UK DVD ever

Mamma Mia! the movie has become the biggest-selling DVD in the UK ever.

According to the Official Charts Company, the release racked up enough sales during the Christmas break to become the first disc to sell more than five million DVDs.

Mamma Mia! has already been named as the fastest-selling DVD, selling 1.669 million on its first day of sale.

The movie soundtrack has been confirmed as the biggest selling compilation of 2008, with a million copies flying off the shelves

It has beaten ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl’, which has sold 4.7 million copies in the UK.

“Right from its release, Mamma Mia! has been a record breaker – when it was issued on DVD, it became the fastest seller of all time,” the Telegraph quoted Official Charts Company
managing director Martin Talbot, as saying.

“This latest landmark further underlines the popularity of the movie, which is now ‘officially’ the British public’s favourite DVD of all time – with one-in-four British households owning a copy,” Talbot added.

Here is the official all-time DVD top 50 from 1998 to 2008:

1. Mamma Mia! The Movie
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
3. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Casino Royale
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Gladiator
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
10. Shrek 2
11. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
12. Finding Nemo
13. Grease
14. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
15. Madagascar
16. Love Actually
17. Dirty Dancing
18. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
19. The Simpsons Movie
20. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
21. The Day After Tomorrow
22. Transformers
23. Hot Fuzz
24. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
25. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
26. War of the Worlds
27. Ocean’s Eleven
28. Bridget Jones’s Diary
29. Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone
30. Spiderman
31. Shrek
32. I Robot
33. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
34. Saving Private Ryan
35. Shrek the Third
36. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
37. The Da Vinci Code
38. The Incredibles
39. Troy
40. The Matrix
41. The Green Mile
42. High School Musical
43. Monsters Inc
44. The Matrix Reloaded
45. The Bourne Identity
46. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
47. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
48. The Polar Express
49. Star Wars: Trilogy
50. Shaun of the Dead (ANI)

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