Charts Full-market The Official UK Top 50
David Walliams’ Blob spends a fourth week slumped at the top of the bestseller charts, holding off James Paterson, who tops both hardback and paperback lists in the fiction stakes—the first author to do so since... himself, back in 2014. Kiera O’Brien reports
week ending 18th March 2017 TCM VALUE (£)
24.8M –6.7% +4.9%
; :
AVG SELLING PRICE (£)
7.84 :
Penguin £1.36m HarperCollins
Pan Mac £742k
Bloomsbury £546k Transworld £423k
Cornerstone £419k
Ebury £399k Vintage £371k
Growth of 3.3% on 2016’s figure
£7.58 PUBLISHERS’ REVENUES £986k
Value growth on last week’s figures
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Past 12 months vs previous 12 (value)
wks title 4 ) Blob
2 : Never Never
author imprint David Walliams
J Patterson & C Fox
3 ) Where’s Wally?... Fantastic Journey Martin Handford 8 : Mary Berry Everyday
Mary Berry
3 ; Everyone Loves Underpants 3 ; Butterfly Beach
Claire Freedman Jacqueline Wilson
Philippa Gregory Yuval Noah Harari
12 1 : Fantastic Beasts... to Find Them 13 3 ; Horrid Henry Funny Fact Files
Linwood Barclay J K Rowling
Francesca Simon
14 3 ; Good Old Timmy and Other Stories Enid Blyton 15 2 : The Missing Wife 16 2 : Saturday Requiem
17 2 : Everything but the Truth 18 2 : Five Forget Mother’s Day 19 4 ; Mount!
20 6 ; A Summer at Sea
21 5 ; Grandpa’s Great Escape 22 3 ; Island
Sheila O’Flanagan Nicci French
Gillian McAllister Bruno Vincent Jilly Cooper Katie Fforde
David Walliams David Almond
23 12 : The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Joanna Cannon 24 1 : How it Works: The Mum 25 3 : My Name is Lucy Barton 26 1 : I Found You 27 3 ; Dead of Night
28 4 ; Nice Work if You Can Get it 29 1 : Stay Dead
30 6 ; The Summer Seaside Kitchen 31 1 : The Detective Dog 32= 2 : Black Water Lilies
32= 1 : Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs 34 8 ; Out of Bounds 35 1 : If Not for You
36 20 ; The Midnight Gang
Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print
book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
WKS the number of weeks the edition has been in the chart. TCM Sales the
edition’s sales to date. Key : New entry : Re-entry · : Up · ) Same · ; Down
14
37 10 : Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet 38 3 ; The Gangster 39 2 : Lie with Me 40 1 : Vinegar Girl 41 12 ; The Muse 42 64 ; Lean in 15
Michael Grant Celia Imrie Jessie Keane Jenny Colgan
Julia Donaldson Michel Bussi Monty Don
Val McDermid
Debbie Macomber David Walliams Tom Kerridge
C Cussler & J Scott Sabine Durrant Anne Tyler
Jessie Burton Joe Wicks
43 11 ; Harry Potter... Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling 44 5 ; Gangsta Granny 45 2 ; 16th Seduction 46 4 ; Every Dark Corner 47 46 ; The Girl on the Train 48 3 ; Demon Dentist 49 7 ; Old School
50 1 : When Breath Becomes Air David Walliams
Paula Hawkins David Walliams Jeff Kinney
Paul Kalanithi
Hazeley & Morris Elizabeth Strout Lisa Jewell
isbn (978+) 1784754143 tcm sales wk sale
HC Children’s 0008221539 205,259 26,658 Arrow Walker BBC
23,891 14,948
1406376753 103,246 14,794 1785941689
S&S Children’s 1471163074 Corgi
4 ; Peppa Loves World Book Day! – Ladybird 4 : Three Sisters, Three Queens 2 : Sapiens
S&S Vintage
10 3 ; Princess Mirror-Belle... Snow White Julia Donaldson 11 2 : The Twenty-Three
Macmillan... Orion
0552576222 0141378312 1471133039
108,691
65,804 14,170 92,720 13,963 85,329 13,693 13,291
60,774 12,330
0099590088 206,339 12,091 1509840861 1409146551
Bloomsbury 1408880715 Orion Children’s 1510102798 Hodder... Headline Penguin Penguin Quercus Corgi Arrow
HC Children’s 0008183424 Hodder....
1444937176 Borough Press 0008132170
0241248782 0099599494
Sphere
Two Roads Sphere Arrow
1447254348 0751564808
1444937190 1472210753 1405918619 1405928267 1786486868 0552170284 0099579328
69,779 11,358 21,278 11,085 10,997 10,883 74,685 10,502 76,144 10,234 15,652 9,280 14,262 8,895 11,988 7,415 16,425 7,053 42,798 6,939 61,198 6,889 47,024 6,582 49,569 5,799 99,487 5,715
Michael Joseph 0718184216 296,996 5,711 Viking Arrow
Electric Monkey 1780318134 Bloomsbury 1408876947 Pan
Macmillan.... 1509801602 W&N
1474601764 1473641716 0751561432 0099595045
Mulholland Vintage Picador Bluebird
J Patterson & M Paetro Century Karen Rose
1472935410 1405923842 1473608320 0099589877 1447250975
16,692 5,374 8,649 5,355 42,814 5,286 26,736 5,135 8,302 5,035 42,583 5,016 9,008 4,841 12,447 4,733 8,583 4,733 76,455 4,732 8,159 4,689
HC Children’s 0008164614 702,826 4,657 Absolute Penguin
96,591 4,534 17,805 4,446 53,987 4,443 7,628 4,334 93,013 4,320
1509800667 1,190,048 4,284
Bloomsbury 1408855652 396,434 4,207 HC Children’s 0007371464 934,499 4,071 1780895192 0755390076
Headline Black Swan Vintage
0141377094 1784701994
0552779777 1,179,558 3,891
HC Children’s 0007453580 435,388 3,850 Puffin
36,892 3,834 61,073 3,791
24th March 2017
8,811 4,059 23,496 4,032
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