Let’s Talk Numbers

3 Weeks After Breaking Dawn Made Its Debut

Amazon.com, Breaking Dawn remaining the most ordered book. The list changes hour by hour, but number one is where it seems to be staying. The other books in the saga are in the top 20.

Barnes and Noble it is in the number 4 slot with the other books in the saga in the top 10.

USA TODAY
Breaking Dawn is number one and the rest of the saga is within the top 10. The Host punches in at number 20.

Wall Street Journal
Breaking Dawn is number one and the rest of the saga is within the top 10. The Host is at number 10.

The New York Times
Breaking Dawn and the rest of the Saga is at one ( the NY Times list categorizes the books as "series books" in their children’s list). The Host is at number 6 on it’s list (categorized as hardcover fiction).

Now if you consider the fact that most die hard fans get their books within the first week, the fact that the book is still doing this well three weeks later after a set release date, is pretty impressive.

Comments

  1. sou says:

    I’m glad to hear it!! :) and yes!! yay for SM!!

  2. urcoolcarrie says:

    yay!! this is amazing! it means that the fandom is, literally, getting bigger everyday. GO STEPHENIE!!!

  3. i love edward cullen says:

    I watched it and yes I DID FREAK every time i saw Rob, and I was like, Edward!!!!!, not Cedric. I do love the Harry Potter movies though.

  4. Team Twilight (formerly known as Twilighter) says:

    Tomorrow- Tuesday August 26 2008- on Entertainment Tonight they are gonna talk about “90210.” Kellan Lutz (A.K.A Emmett) is part of the cast. I saw him on the preview and he had his shirt OFF!!! EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH IT!!!! :)

  5. Team Twilight (formerly known as Twilighter) says:

    Oh!! MTV updated their blog!

  6. Jess says:

    These books are ADDICTING!!! I would tell my friends about them and as soon as I said vampires they rolled their eyes. When I finally got them to read Twilight they loved it and can’t wait for the movie to come out. This has to be my favorite series of books and Stephenie AWESOME!!!

  7. Lori says:

    TWILIGHT IS FILMING NEW SCENES THIS WEEK!
    http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1593481/story.jhtml

  8. Team Twilight (formerly known as Twilighter) says:

    I read the article (MTV new scenes) but I wanna watch the video. Youtube somebody? Please!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED FOR THE MOVIE AND I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE FLASBACK SCENES!!! MTV keep it coming cause that’s the kind of news I like to hear! ;)

  9. La tua Cantante says:

    I am so excited about the New scenes!!!
    I always hoped that they would do a peice going back in time like maybe when Edward was showing Bella the house fr the first time when he explains to her a little of Carliles story!!! I thought it would have benn cool if they did a scene going back in time as Edward told Bella his story!
    AND i really hope that if they mke New Moon that when Carlile is bandaging Bella up from her disasterous fall down at her Birthday they sill do the same thing!exept this time when he is bandaging her up as he is telling Bellla Edward story (just like in the book)they could easily do a quick scen of Edward and his mother laying in the hospital on the verge of death from the spanish influenza and when Edwards mom beggs Carlile to save edward and when he takes Edward over the rooftops and to his home during the night! It could end as Carllile is maybe saying I’m sorry to Edward and leans down to Bite him!!!
    I would love to see time pices here and ther in the movie! It would brings soo much more to it!
    but i have said this hundreds of times!
    cant wait to find out shat the new scene is about!!!

  10. Mi Lobo Robo(my red wolf) says:

    I am so excited about the New scenes!!!
    I always hoped that they would do a peice going back in time like maybe when Edward was showing Bella the house fr the first time when he explains to her a little of Carliles story!!! I thought it would have benn cool if they did a scene going back in time as Edward told Bella his story!
    AND i really hope that if they mke New Moon that when Carlile is bandaging Bella up from her disasterous fall down at her Birthday they sill do the same thing!exept this time when he is bandaging her up as he is telling Bellla Edward story (just like in the book)they could easily do a quick scen of Edward and his mother laying in the hospital on the verge of death from the spanish influenza and when Edwards mom beggs Carlile to save edward and when he takes Edward over the rooftops and to his home during the night! It could end as Carllile is maybe saying I’m sorry to Edward and leans down to Bite him!!!
    I would love to see time pices here and ther in the movie! It would brings soo much more to it!
    but i have said this hundreds of times!
    cant wait to find out shat the new scene is about!!!
    GO TWILIGHT!

  11. jazjade says:

    Lori, thanks for posting the MTV link about shooting new scenes. It says they’re putting Jacob into the Prom Scene. BTW, there’s a lot of Jacob-Hating going on in their comments section!! (Poor Taylor Lautner)

  12. Lori says:

    ^ your welcome ;)

    i didn’t read those comments yet. i personally like him as jacob

  13. nshae says:

    walmart.com top 50 sellers features BD as #2. 12 of the 50 books listed are from Stephenie as well (due to format variations – hardback, paperback, CD). Oh and the top 50 are all 50% off!

  14. sapient says:

    I’m thrilled.

  15. Sarah says:

    Maybe most diehard fans are getting the book over and over again lol
    But this is an accomplishment on SM’s part. Congrats.

  16. Celeste says:

    i have finally accepted it it is ok if you read it through properly

  17. Meg says:

    typo in the title: “its debut”

  18. U.N.Owen says:

    3 punctuation mistakes in this news feed. Oh yes, Twilight has intelligent fans all right.

  19. Beth says:

    NUMBERS DON’T MATTER.

    Just look at William Hung. He’s popular, because he’s a horrible singer. Just because he’s sold millions doesn’t mean his singing is good.

    Sticking a bunch of numbers on the chart and saying, “Here, look, this is proof that this is a good book,” is silly and useless.

  20. C says:

    Not that she deserves it

  21. U.N.Owen says:

    I completely agree with Beth above. BD sold millions of copies because of the hype built up, not necessarily because it was a fantastic book. That may be the case, but sale numbers and chart positions cannot be used as evidence of how amazing the book is.

  22. arielkid78 says:

    I think that people alredy decided, The numbers help you see what people thinks, she does deserve it.

  23. arielkid78 says:

    Cool! Go Breaking Dawn

  24. LizzT says:

    Thank you, Owen! Finally, some unbiased criticism!

  25. arielkid78 says:

    No one here said we are unbiased that is why we come here. The name of the site is twilight Lexicon.

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