US manga sales, 2007
My last post got the attention of someone who, in passing, mentioned The Beat; taking a moment to check it out, I happened upon a link to Bookscan numbers for 2007, which struck me as a great topic.
* 192 titles sold over 10,000 copies
* 572 of the top 750 GNs for 2007 were manga or sold as (28 of which domestically-produced,) sales gross $61.5 million on 6.8 million units on these titles alone.
* 338 titles for Viz, for $39.0 million; 144 titles for TP, for $15.0 million; 44 titles for Del Rey, for $4.8 million; 13 titles for Dark Horse, for $1.1 million; 7 titles for ADV Books, for $440k; 5 titles for Brocolli, for $275k
* CMX’s only charters were Megatokyo
* Authors with more than 10 volumes charting: Kishimoto Masashi ($10.0 million), Kubo Tite ($4.7 million), Takaya Natsuki ($4.3 million), Ohba Tsugumi ($2.8 million), Arakawa Hiromu ($2.5 million), CLAMP ($2.2 million), Akamatsu Ken ($1.8 million), Watsuki Nobuhiro ($1.3 million), Hatori Bisco ($1.1 million), Takahashi Rumiko ($1.0 million), Oda Eiichiro ($1.0 million), Nakajo Hisaya ($990k), Tanemura Arina ($950k), Yabuki Kentaro ($885k), Sugisaki Yukiru ($715k), Toriyama Akira ($700k), Yuki Kaori ($640k), Anzai Nobuyuki ($614k)
* Series with more than 10 volumes charting, or with 7-9 volumes of which all charted : Naruto ($10.0 million), Bleach ($4.4 millon), Fruits Basket ($4.3 million), Death Note ($2.8 million), FMA ($2.5 million), Negima ($1.6 million), Tsubasa ($1.4 million), Loveless ($1.1 million), One Piece ($1.0 million), Hana Kimi ($990k), Inu Yasha ($895k), Black Cat ($885k), Ouran ($800k), Rurouni Kenshin ($780k), DN Angel ($715k), MAR ($615k), Buso Renkin ($565k), Godchild ($495k), Dragon Ball Z ($490k)