17.4% In August Adult Fiction was up 17.4% year on year
Audible Audio Download Chart Audiobook users crown fiction King
has seen the print market looking particularly healthy, even during the usually sluggish month of August. Adult fiction has been especially buoyant, with volume 15.4% up against August 2019— and 17.4% up against similarly grounded August 2020. So far for the summer months,
this knock-on effect seems to have extended into the audio download chart. The 2011 e-book revolution was enough to take a hefty bite out of the print fiction market a decade ago, but audio has always skewed towards non-fiction, especially celebrity memoir and self-help. Of course,
September to January is peak release time for both those genres, and with celebrity autobiographies currently lining up in the Hardback Non-fiction top 20, it’s likely that in the first autumn Audible chart we will see fiction edged out. That’s not to say no celeb
The habits-based guide was origi- nally released in 2018, but became a January high flyer in the perfect storm of the “new year, new you” period combining with the abrupt timetable erasure of a national lockdown. Since then, it’s continued to chalk up a string of monthly chart appear- ances. Jordan
Audio has always skewed towards non-fiction, especially celebrity memoir and self-help
AUDIBLE NUMBER ONE
STEPHEN KING CLAIMED HIS FIRST
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memoirs or self-help titles made the Audible August chart. Hollywood film star Matthew McConaughey, who has officially outlasted Barack Obama in the audio ranking, hit 15th place with his October 2020-published autobiography, and James Clear’s Atomic Habits claimed sixth place.
1 Billy Summers
2 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 3 The Night She Disappeared 4 The Thursday Murder Club 5 Harry... Chamber of Secrets 6 Atomic Habits 7 Dune
8 Harry... Prisoner of Azkaban 9 Harry... Goblet of Fire 10 The Midnight Library
11 Harry... Order of the Phoenix 12 Harry... Half-Blood Prince 13 Harry... Deathly Hallows 14 Mythos
15 Greenlights
16 The Sandman: Act II 17 12 Rules for Life 18 I Follow You
19 Where the Crawdads Sing 20 The Hobbit
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Stephen King J K Rowling Lisa Jewell
Richard Osman J K Rowling James Clear Frank Herbert J K Rowling J K Rowling Matt Haig J K Rowling J K Rowling J K Rowling Stephen Fry
Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life also returned to the chart for the first time since the spring. We have seen before that the
Audible chart loves a sci-fi title, and August was no exception. Frank Herbert’s Dune continues to rise in the ranking as the hype for its film adaptation snowballs; Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman II fell a little short of its August 2020 chart-topping predecessor, but still claimed 15th; and J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit claimed 20th place for a second month.
Narrator/s Paul Sparks Stephen Fry
Joanne Froggatt
Imprint Hodder
Pottermore Penguin
Manville, Osman, Keyes Penguin Stephen Fry James Clear
Brick, Cassidy et al Stephen Fry Stephen Fry
Carey Mulligan Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Stephen Fry
Jordan B Peterson Justin Avoth
Pottermore Penguin
Macmillan Pottermore Pottermore Canongate Pottermore Pottermore Pottermore Penguin
Matthew McConaughey Matthew McConaughey Headline N Gaiman, D Maggs Gaiman, McAvoy et al Audible Jordan B Peterson Peter James Delia Owens J R R Tolkien
Penguin Macmillan
Cassandra Campbell Hachette Andy Serkis
Audible Audio Download Chart Date Range 1st–31st August 2021. Source Audible Physical Audio Top 5 Date Range 1st–31st August 2021. Source Nielsen Key New Up Same Down
HarperCollins 127 units
The Thursday... Richard Osman Penguin
03 157 units
Spectacular Stories... David Walliams HarperCollins
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Physical Audio Top 5
01 469 units
Children’s Top... Nursery Songs CRS
02 384 units
The Wheels on the Bus BBC Audiobooks
04 136 units
Ladybird First Favourite Tales Ladybird
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