ENTERTAINMENT retailer, HMV’s top ten best-selling Christmas gifts and charts for Christmas week… for albums, DVD, boxsets, games, personal technology (also broken down for top five headphones, tablets and app-enabled gadgets), popular culture books, 2012 calendars and t-shirts.
Top ten singles
1. Military Wives Choir with Gareth Malone / Wherever You Are
2. Little Mix / Cannonball
3. Lou Monte / Dominick The Donkey
4. Alex Day / Forever Yours
5. Coldplay / Paradise
6. Olly Murs / Dance With Me Tonight
7. Lloyd ft. Andre 3000/Lil Wayne / Dedication to My Ex (Miss That)
8. Nirvana / Smells Like Teen Spirit
9. Flo-rida / Good Feeling
10. Leona Lewis / Hurt
Top ten albums
1. Michael Bublé – Christmas
2. Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures
3. Coldplay – Mylo Xloto
4. Rihanna – Talk That Talk
5. One Direction – Up All Night
6. Olly Murs – In Case You Didn’t Know
7. Westlife – Greatest Hits
8. Adele – 21
9. Ed Sheeran – +
10. Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Top ten DVDs
1. The Inbetweeners Movie – 1
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
4. Hangover 2
5. Peter Kay – The Tour That Doesn’t Tour 2011
6. Lee Evans – Roadrunner 2011
7. Bridesmaids
8. Mrs Browns Boys S1
9. Celebrity Juice
10. Frozen Planet
Top ten DVD & blu-ray boxsets
1. Harry Potter Complete 8-Film Collection
2. Downton Abbey Series 1 & 2
3. The Inbetweeners Series 1 – 3
4. Twilight Trilogy
5. Home Alone 1 – 4
6. The Pacific
7. Toy Story 1 – 3
8. Star Wars Complete Saga (blu-ray)
9. 24: Complete
10. The Killing Series 2
Top ten games (across all platforms)
1. Call of Duty
2. Fifa 2012
3. Battlefield 3
4. Batman Arkham City
5. Just Dance
6. Assassins Creed
7. Uncharted 3
8. Need for Speed
9. Elder Scrolls Skyrim
10. Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics
Top ten personal technology devices
1. Beats Studios headphones – Colours (Various colours, incl. hmv green exclusive)
2. iPad2 16gb Wifi
3. Appblaster
4. Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9″
5 Angry Birds Speaker
6. TDK 2-Speaker Boombox
7. BeeWe helicopter
8. Sennheiser MM 30i headphones
9. Skullcandy Uprock headphones
10. ASUS eeePad transformer package with keyboard
Top five headphones
1. Beats Studios (Various colours use hmv green exclusive as hero) Green Cat No: 128811
2. Sennheiser MM 30i
3. Skullcandy Uprock
4. Beats by Dre Solos
5. House of Marley Jammin: Smile Jamaica
Top five tablets
1. iPad2 16gb Wifi
2. Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9″
3. ASUS eeePad transformer package with keyboard
4. Motorola Xoom
5. Acer A500 16gb wifi
Top five app-enabled gadgets
1. Appblaster
2. BeeWe helicopter
3. Crayola product
4. BeeWe Mini Cooper
5. DJ Cable
Top ten books (popular culture & books)
1. Paul Moran – Where’s The Meerkat
2. Chas Newkey-Burden – Adele: The Biography
3. Marc Leverton – Banksy Myths & Legends (HMV Exclusive)
4. One Direction – Dare To Dream
5. Damon Beasley & Iain Morris – Inbetweeners Yearbook
6. Queen – 40 Years of Queen (with HMV Exclusive artwork)
7. Harry Hill – Bumper Book of Bloopers
8. Noel Fielding – Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton
9. Banksy – Wall & Piece
10. Sarah Herman – When Meerkats Turn Bad
Top ten calendars – 2012
1. One Direction
2. Cliff Richard
3. Jessie J
4. Cheryl Cole
5. JLS
6. Justin Bieber
7. Michael Bublé
8. Take That
9. Family Guy
10. Marvel Retro Classic
Top ten t-shirts – music and film
1. One Direction-Up All Night
2. Captain America
3. Superman logo
4. Family Guy
5. The Beatles – Sergeant Pepper
6. AC/DC – Back in Black
7. Metallica – Skull
8. Batman logo
9. Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
10. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Enquiries
Gennaro Castaldo
Head of Press & PR (HMV & Fopp)
+44 (0)20 7432 2033 / +44 (0)7801 194 139.
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