{"id":6882,"date":"2021-06-22T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:29:12","slug":"backfilling-complete-november-2020-rankings-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/22\/backfilling-complete-november-2020-rankings-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Backfilling complete: November 2020 rankings online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6883\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2020-11-All16x9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2020-11-All16x9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2020-11-All16x9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2020-11-All16x9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Comichron2020-11-All16x9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"995ns-0-0\">Finishing a chore that built up while waiting to see what Diamond would do, <\/span><a class=\"_4X_-components-SimpleRichTextEditor-components-LinkSpan--linkSpan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2020\/2020-11.html\"><span data-offset-key=\"995ns-1-0\">November 2020&#8217;s rankings<\/span><\/a><span data-offset-key=\"995ns-2-0\"> based on our retail dataset&#8217;s initial orders are now online. That&#8217;s the month when Diamond paused its sales reports, setting off this latest ongoing phase of uncertainty. November saw strong sales on a smaller slate, which seems to be the story of the year. Fewer new releases, more copies sold. In these months\u00a0we&#8217;re seeing 25% to 33% fewer new comics released, yet initial order totals beating (in November&#8217;s case, handily) the bigger slates of 2019-early 2020. DC pared its offerings in 2018, but not everyone did it. The pandemic refocused everyone on their bestsellers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finishing a chore that built up while waiting to see what Diamond would do, November 2020&#8217;s rankings based on our retail dataset&#8217;s initial orders are now online. That&#8217;s the month when Diamond paused its sales reports, setting off this latest ongoing phase of uncertainty. November saw strong sales on a smaller slate, which seems to &#8230; <a title=\"Backfilling complete: November 2020 rankings online\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/22\/backfilling-complete-november-2020-rankings-online\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Backfilling complete: November 2020 rankings online\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","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=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6884,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}