2014 Year End Sales

We're starting to get the 2014 year end sales. I'll update this post with relevant links as they come in.

Diamond's Top 500 Comics with index
Diamond's Top 500 Graphic Novels with index

The index point for those charts will probably end up being around 1133 [edited to add, turned out to be 1132.55 according to Comichron, so almost nailed it. Here are the definitive Top 1000 charts, if I ever cite 2014 Diamond sales that's the page I'm using].

Using that, on the Comics chart AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 will come in at about 559k, WALKING DEAD #132 at 326k, BATMAN #32 at 133k, SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 at 70k and LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #36 at 57k.

On the books side, SAGA TP VOL 03 is about 62.2k, BATMAN TP VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS is about 24.8k, GUARDIANS OF GALAXY TP VOL 01 COSMIC AVENGERS is about 23.8k, AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE TP VOL 01 is about 13.8k, AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 07 RIFT PART 1 is about 11.5k, NEMO ROSES OF BERLIN HC is about 10.8k.

ICV2 has the Top 1000 for each category (501-1000 for Comics, 501-1000 for Graphic Novels). Unfortunately no index values, although they do have the retail rank which points out a few interesting anomalies, like comics which the publisher overshipped or older books which were blown out at high discounts. I'll wait to see if the info is posted elsewhere with index values or estimated sales (at Comichron, most likely) before looking too closely, but here are the top publishers by number of entries on each chart:

Comics - Entries in Top 1000
Marvel - 512
DC - 407
Image - 57
Dark Horse - 14
Archie - 4
Titan - 3
Dynamite - 1
Valiant - 1
IDW - 1

Graphic Novels - Entries in Top 1000

DC - 393

Marvel - 251

Image - 115

Dark Horse - 88

IDW - 36

Random House - 25

Boom - 19

Viz - 17

Oni - 10

The Beat has five Top 100 charts, one for Manga and two each (Comics and GNs) for Small Press and Indie publishers, as Diamond defines them. There's a lot of overlap in those categories, if you combine them you get 367 distinct titles.