The Home Entertainment Charts For 2025 Gives British Talent A Wickedly Good Year!
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Carl Roberts 
Wicked, Superman, and Conclave feature big in the home entertainment charts of 2025. Additionally, Jurassic World: Rebirth and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy also have a significant presence.
The Home Entertainment Charts for 2025 gave British talent a wickedly good year. Today, the first set of figures to be released in 2026 by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) in association with the Official Charts Company reveal that audiences love watching films and TV shows at home more than ever. This preference is pushing the value of the UK Home Entertainment sector to £5.7bn, the largest figure in recorded history. This number includes streaming, buying and renting films digitally or on DVD or Blu-Ray.
The total value of the UK media and entertainment industry rose to £34bn, also an industry record. Visual Entertainment was the top choice for audiences, over gaming and music. This number includes transactional and Pay TV Home Entertainment, Cinema, Games, and Music. The visual Home Entertainment consumer spend accounted for 17% of that number. The value of the sector grew to an all-time high. It did so without the disruptions to production and distribution. This is notable as these factors have challenged the industry in recent years.
WICKED
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande hit WICKED, filmed entirely in the UK and also starring UK leading man Jonathan Bailey. It soared to the top of the sales charts in 2025, selling and renting 1.4 million units with a value of £17.7 million across UK Home Entertainment. This figure includes all sales and rentals of the film across Digital and Disc (EST, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD). (Official Charts Company measures individual content purchases on disc and digital, to rent, buy or own in the UK, unlike multi-content SVoD services). WICKED scored £61.2mn at the UK Box office in 2024. Meanwhile, WICKED: FOR GOOD has achieved £46.5mn at the box office so far in 2025 and 2026. This was before its home entertainment release on January 2nd 2026.
LIZ BALES
Liz Bales, Chief Executive, BASE, said:
“The UK entertainment industry is a globally admired powerhouse of talent and innovation that has excelled in 2025. Whether it is buying, renting, streaming or in cinemas: UK supported and created film and TV shows continue to deliver for audiences. The strength of the UK entertainment industry is bolstered by the diversity of channels and choices for consumers who, alongside the array of streaming services being embraced, are flocking to buy and rent options, in growing numbers. As we move to embrace exciting new partnerships across the industry, and welcome Government’s recognition and support for the economic contribution of the Creative Industries, 2026 is set to offer exciting change, further growth and a wealth of brilliant and beautiful new stories for audiences to embrace in all the ways they know and love”.
GLADIATOR II AND CONCLAVE
The Ridley Scott-directed GLADIATOR II, released 25 years after the Russell Crowe original, fought its way to the number two spot in the Official Video Chart 2025, raking in £7.1mn across individual sales and rentals. More titles than ever were released fresh from cinemas and attracting a higher price: 79 in 2025, compared to 62 in 2024, in a year when the UK box office also rose by 1%.
The BAFTA Best British film of 2025, the Ralph Fiennes papal thriller CONCLAVE, proved the popularity of independent films and original stories with audiences. It had the most rentals across the year, achieving a value of £4mn. The value of the UK rental market rose to £137mn in 2025. This was driven by fantastic stories, the ease of digital rental, and the innovative premium rental market.
SUPERMAN, DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, AND BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
Warner Bros. Pictures SUPERMAN (2025) flew to number one on the Official Blu-Ray Chart 2025, where the value of the category is up 3.1% year on year. The higher price of the three-film LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY achieved sales totalling 13.8k, with a value of £804.1k. This shows the ongoing love for the films among fans. It also highlights the importance of older titles remaining available to audiences to own at home.
British powerhouse DOWNTON ABBEY: THE FINALE sold 56.5k DVDS for a value of £568k in just two weeks from its release on December 15th 2025, proving the ongoing popularity of the format for audiences who still value a physical copy of a film or TV show.
The British-made national treasure Bridget Jones was the fourth biggest-selling film of the year on the Official Video Chart. It achieved 740.5k sales and rentals for BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY, and a value of £7.4mn. Another Universal Pictures title, British-directed JURASSIC PARK: REBIRTH, was the fifth biggest-selling title, with 598k sales and rentals. It contributed £7.1mn.
THE FINAL WEEK OF 2025
The final week of 2025 saw 2.2 million unit sales and rentals, including 120.1k sales for classic Christmas titles ELF and 77.5k for THE POLAR EXPRESS, while AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH dominated in cinemas, and STRANGER THINGS: THE FINALE was released simultaneously on Netflix and in cinemas to the delight of UK fans. Netflix remains the most popular service for UK consumers with 17.6mn subscribers in the autumn, bolstered by the success of titles like award winner ADOLESENCE, and animated phenomenon K-POP DEMON HUNTERS.
Amazon Prime Video was the second-largest channel, reaching 13.6 million homes, and popular with audiences for its mix of free titles for subscribers, as well as new and classic titles to buy and rent. Streaming remains the audience’s top choice for at-home viewing, with 20.5 million homes using at least one service and 69.5% of the population watching. The now established ad-tiers for streaming channels contributed to the rise in value of the industry, when coupled with the consumer spend.
Disney+ was in 7.5 million UK homes, and Paramount+ was in 3.5 million homes. Smaller streaming channels also saw growth, as fans embraced variety of content across Discovery, which grew to 3.2mn homes, Apple TV which grew to 2.8mn homes, and NOW which grew to 2mn homes.
Four of the five top selling TV Titles in 2025 first aired on streaming channels in the UK, where HBO’s HOUSE OF THE DRAGON dominated for the third year running, and fan favourite Doctor Who took the number two spot, with the classic DOCTOR WHO: THE SAVAGES, which first aired in 1966, demonstrating the continuing thirst of fans for classic TV to own at home.
OFFICIAL ALL-VIDEO CHART
1 WICKED
2 GLADIATOR II
3 CONCLAVE
4 BRIDGET JONES – MAD ABOUT THE BOY
5 JURASSIC WORLD – REBIRTH
OFFICIAL FILM CHART 2025 (ALL DIGITAL RETAIL, BLU-RAY, AND DVD, EST)
1 WICKED
2 A MINECRAFT MOVIE
3 GLADIATOR II
4 BRIDGET JONES – MAD ABOUT THE BOY
5 JURASSIC WORLD – REBIRTH
OFFICIAL FILM DOWNLOAD CHART 2025
1 WICKED
2 A MINECRAFT MOVIE
3 BRIDGET JONES – MAD ABOUT THE BOY
4 GLADIATOR II
5 JURASSIC WORLD – REBIRTH
OFFICIAL FILM DIGITAL RENTAL CHART 2025
1 CONCLAVE
2 GLADIATOR II
3 BRIDGET JONES – MAD ABOUT THE BOY
4 WICKED
5 JURASSIC WORLD – REBIRTH
OFFICIAL VIDEO CHART 2025
1 WICKED
2 GLADIATOR II
3 JURASSIC WORLD – REBIRTH
4 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
5 PADDINGTON IN PERU
OFFICIAL BLU-RAY CHART 2025
1 SUPERMAN (2025)
2 WICKED
3 GLADIATOR II
4 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
5 NOSFERATU (2024)
OFFICIAL DVD CHART 2025
1 WICKED
2 GLADIATOR II
3 DOWNTON ABBEY – THE GRAND FINALE
4 PADDINGTON IN PERU
5 JURASSIC WORLD – REBIRTH
OFFICIAL TV ON VIDEO CHART 2025
1 HOUSE OF THE DRAGON – SEASON 2
2 DOCTOR WHO – THE SAVAGES
3 THE PENGUIN
4 FALLOUT – SEASON 1
5 THE LAST OF US – SEASON 2
As you can see, there’s a glut of top-quality titles in the 2025 charts of the year on home entertainment. Some are real crowd-pleasers, with some genuine blockbusters in the placings. It isn’t a real surprise to see Wicked dominating the charts, considering it has been in and out of the top ten ever since it was first released on all formats. It’s still holding firm inside the top ten as we enter 2026, and it may feature in this year’s chart come January of 2027.
As we look forward to what’s going to be on offer later this year, we can look forward in the short term to The Running Man, The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants and Avatar: Fire & Ash. Later on, we will see some of the big summer movies make their appearance, such as Supergirl, Minions 3, Scream 7, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The Mandalorian And Grogu, Moana (live-action), and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
With a line-up like that, it’s time to start saving those pennies for when they hit home entertainment! So, what did YOU buy on home entertainment during 2025? And did your favourite take one of the top spots?
Introducing Carl! As the News Editor at Future of the Force, Carl has been an invaluable member of our team since early 2016. His expertise and dedication have made him an integral part of our editorial staff. Beyond his professional role, Carl is a fervent supporter of Liverpool F.C. and an avid follower of pop culture. He has a deep passion for Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the iconic movie franchises Star Wars and Star Trek.
He can be found either at his neighborhood cinema, enjoying the latest releases on the big screen, or at home streaming the newest blockbuster movies.
