UK Sales Chart – Week ending 18th July

Largely thanks to the premier of the latest movie, EA’s tie-in game Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince managed to push up to the top spot this week, despite only increasing sale by 5%.

1. Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince (4)
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (3)
3. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (1)
4. Wii Fit (6)
5. Fight Night Round 4 (2)
6. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (5)
7. The Sims 3 (8)
8. Virtua Tennis 2009 (7)
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (9)
10. EA Sports Active (13)
11. Mario Kart Wii (14)
12. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (15)
13. [PROTOTYPE] (10)
14. Call of Duty: World at War (16)
15. UFC 2009: Undisputed (11)
16. Grand Slam Tennis (12)
17. Pokemon Platinum (18)
18. Guitar Hero: World Tour (19)
19. Rhythm Paradise (Re-entry)
20. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (21)
21. FIFA 09 (17)
22. infamous (22)
23. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (23)
24. Overlord II (28)
25. Mario Kart DS (27)
26. Red Faction: Guerrilla (20)
27. Transformers Revenge – Autobots (29)
28. Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits (24)
29. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (26)
30. Grand Theft Auto Auto IV (33)
31. Football Manager 2009 (31)
32. MySims Racing (34)
33. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (38)
34. Club Penguin : Elite Penguin Force (37)
35. Lego Battles (36)
36. New Super Mario Bros. (40)
37. Ben 10: Alien Force (Re-entry)
38. Hannah Montana: The Movie (39)
39. Guitar Hero: Metallica (35)
40. Gardening Mama (Re-entry)

Last week’s bestselling game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 dropped 20% in sales, falling to No.3, which allowed another film tie-in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to move up to No.2 despite a 4% dip in sales.
It’s been a rather successful past couple of months for mega-publisher EA, with four separate EA titles reaching No.1 in the charts for a total of 6 out of the past 7 weeks. The also now have a total of five games in the Top 10.

Wii Fit has continued its consistent good form, moving back up two places to No.4. In fact, Nintendo’s Balance Board game has remained in the All Formats Top 10 for the whole of 2009 so far.

Is Fight Night Round 4 on the ropes? The boxing sim fell three places to No.5 with a 30% drop in sales. Sales of Call of Juarez fell by a similar margin of 27%, but the game only goes down one place to No.6.

There are no new entries this week at all, but the highest new entry by far is Rhythm Paradise, which reappears in the Top 40 at No.19, having increased sales by 96% following a new spate of TV adverts starring Beyonce.

The biggest loser that is still in the charts is Red Faction: Guerrilla, which fell six places to No.20. But three notable titles disappeared from the Top 40 completely this week; Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings was gone after five weeks , Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite after three weeks and The Conduit dropped out after just a week in the charts…

All info provided by Chart-Track