Top Spring Webtoon Titles – Book Channel and Direct Market

We present here the Top 10 Webtoon Collections – Spring 2024 in the book channel and in the direct market, from Circana (formerly NPD) BookScan and ComicHub data for January through April 2024.

The differences in titles on the two charts illustrate differences in retailer emphasis and the customers in the two channels, and point the way toward opportunities for growth.  Sales in the book channel appear to have been more strongly influenced by the Solo Leveling anime, which dropped in the U.S. earlier this year (see “’Solo Leveling’ Drop Date“) and has pushed the webtoon collections high on the bestseller charts.

Circana collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more.  Circana covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market.  The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales.

In comic stores, characters that originated in traditional comic periodicals do much better, and there were also some other minor variations in the titles that did well.

These are unit sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.  During the period for which these reports were generated, there were over 125 stores using the ComicHub system.  As this is a small, non-random sample of over 3,000 stores selling American comics worldwide, these rankings may not be typical for all stores, but do represent a variety of locations and store emphases.

For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the “Top 20 GN Index.”

For ComicHub charts from past periods, see “Comics and Graphic Novel Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data Index.”

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Source: ICV2