2,500 Minimum number of Atomic Habits paperbacks sold per week in 2022


Audible Audio Download Chart Smith secures self-help hat-trick


third month in the top three. Like Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, the title has soared in both audio and print across the last few months. Beginning with January’s annual “New Year, new you” hullabaloo, Atomic Habits has maintained a strong presence in the weekly audio charts moving into the spring. Clear’s book has been rising slowly in sales over the past few years, especially as the pandemic stripped away the book-buying public’s daily routines and the flabby monotony of lockdown took over. However, it


including Roman Abravomich— with Chelsea footballers facing the prospect of Easyjet flights to Champions League matches. Putin-critical political titles thun- dered into the print charts, with Tom Burgis’ Kleptopia and Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People, both books that have faced (and


reached its highest sales outside lock- down so far this year, is yet to drop below 2,500 paperback copies sold per week in 2022 through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM and regularly notches up top-five placements in the Audible weekly chart. Its ethos of slow, regular habit-forming in improving one’s life, as opposed to pure white-knuckle willpower or restriction, also embodies the gentler approach to self-help that 2022 has embraced so far, with even diet books leaning towards “comfort food”. With Russian troops invading


Ukraine in late February, March saw the UK government impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs,


Atomic Habits has maintained a strong presence in the weekly audio charts moving into the spring


SLOW, REGULAR HABIT FORMING BEHAVIOUR


JAMES CLEAR’S ATOMIC HABITS PROMOTES


Title


1 Why Has Nobody Told Me... 2 Atomic Habits


3 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 4 Again, Rachel 5 Putin’s People


6 The Thursday Murder Club 7 Windswept & Interesting 8 Harry... Prisoner of Azkaban 9 Harry... Chamber of Secrets 10 Harry... Goblet of Fire 11 The Fellowship of the Ring 12 The Man Who Died Twice 13 Harry... Order of the Phoenix 14 Harry... Half-Blood Prince 15 Harry... Deathly Hallows 16 Kleptopia


17 This Is Going to Hurt 18 The Storyteller 19 Will


FORBES-WATSON: PAN MAC ‘WILL BOUNCE BACK FROM HORROR 2017


TOM BURGIS’ KLEPTOPIA DISSECTS DIRTY MONEY’S GLOBAL INFLUENCE


20 The Silmarillion Author


Dr Julie Smith James Clear J K Rowling Marian Keyes


Catherine Belton Richard Osman Billy Connolly J K Rowling J K Rowling J K Rowling J R R Tolkien


Richard Osman J K Rowling J K Rowling J K Rowling Tom Burgis Adam Kay Dave Grohl


defeated) lawsuits in the High Court, each notching up number ones in the Paperback Non-fiction chart in consecutive weeks. Both titles also made their débuts in the Audible top 20 for the month. J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the


Rings series has proved almost as popular as that other big fantasy book series turned film franchise in the Audible chart over the past few months. The Silmarillion, narrated by Martin Shaw, joined The Fellowship of the Ring in the top 20 last month.


Narrator/s


Dr Julie Smith James Clear Stephen Fry Keyes, Norton


Imprint


Penguin Audio Penguin Audio Pottermore


Penguin Audio


Dugald Bruce-Lockhart William Collins Manville, Osman, Keyes Penguin Audio Billy Connolly Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Andy Serkis


Two Roads Pottermore Pottermore Pottermore


Manville, Osman Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Tom Burgis Adam Kay Dave Grohl


Smith, Manson Will Smith J R R Tolkien


Martin Shaw


Audible Audio Download Chart Date Range 1st–31st March 2022 Source Audible Physical Audio Top 5 Date Range 1st–31st March 2022 Source Nielsen Key New Up Same Down


HarperCollins Penguin Audio Pottermore Pottermore Pottermore


William Collins Picador S&S


Penguin Audio HarperCollins


145 units


Doctor Who... Glen McCoy BBC


170 units


Dr Who... Paul Magrs BBC


Exclusive


Physical Audio Top 5


01 392 units


Children’s Top... Nursery Songs CRS


02 339 units


The Wheels on the Bus BBC


 03


04 146 units


The Pam Ayres Poetry Collection Pam Ayres BBC


05


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