{"id":6877,"date":"2021-06-10T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:24:50","slug":"batman-108-leads-may-2021-projected-rankings-december-2020-also-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/batman-108-leads-may-2021-projected-rankings-december-2020-also-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman #108 leads May 2021 projected rankings; December 2020 also added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6878\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2021-05-All16x9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2021-05-All16x9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2021-05-All16x9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2021-05-All16x9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2021-05-All16x9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nMay charts are now online. <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><strong><em>Batman<\/em> #108<\/strong> led our projected all-industry rankings for comic shop initial orders in the month. A projected 6 to 7 million copies were initially ordered overall, worth $30 to 31 million, obviously way above May 2020. Click to see the charts for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2021\/2021-05.html\"><strong>May 2021<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">May 2021&#8217;s 329 new comic releases dwarf the 91 that came out in May 2020; Diamond only restarted on the 20th. But May 2019 saw 486 new releases, and even though it had one more ship week, that&#8217;s still a lot more than we&#8217;re seeing yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">We also have a page just for what DC sold through Lunar, though note again that as our retail order sample only looks at initial orders, books like Batman\/Fortnite may have done better in the end. Click to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2021\/2021-05DC.html\"><strong>DC May 2021 rankings<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Finally, we&#8217;re nearly caught up on the charts from earlier in Diamond&#8217;s data pause: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2020\/2020-12.html\"><strong>December 2020&#8217;s rankings are online<\/strong><\/a>.<strong><em> King in Black<\/em> #1<\/strong> led initial orders in the overall market, according to our retail order sample. (Just November to go!)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May charts are now online. Batman #108 led our projected all-industry rankings for comic shop initial orders in the month. A projected 6 to 7 million copies were initially ordered overall, worth $30 to 31 million, obviously way above May 2020. Click to see the charts for May 2021. May 2021&#8217;s 329 new comic releases &#8230; <a title=\"Batman #108 leads May 2021 projected rankings; December 2020 also added\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/batman-108-leads-may-2021-projected-rankings-december-2020-also-added\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Batman #108 leads May 2021 projected rankings; December 2020 also added\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,17,6],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2021-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-lunar-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}