According to Nielsen, Adele's 25 has sold at least 510,000 copies in its third week of release, racking up more than 5m copies in total when added to the 4.49m copies sold in the album's first two weeks of release since 20 November.
Staking out the new-release rack in a record store may be fine for teenagers, he said, "but for people who are beyond that part of their life and they have jobs and maybe have families, the reality is they don't have two hours to go hang out at Tower Records".
Paramount Pictures was the most successful by volume; for the summer its releases racked up over $770 million at the domestic box office.
So far this year, Disney's releases have racked up nearly $2bn in domestic grosses, twice those of its closest competitor, 20th Century Fox, according to data from BoxOffice Mojo.
The unapologetically full-figured 44-year-old Melissa McCarthy propelled Spy to a $100m£64m4m) gross this summer; Meryl Streep, meanwhile, is still headlining multiplex releases and racking up Oscar nominations at 66.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent was successful enough as a downloadable game to get a "rack release"by THQ in North America, although the market has shifted even since 2011.
BEAUTIFUL Directed by Sally Field; written by Jon Bernstein; director of photography, Robert Yeoman; edited by Debra Neil-Fischer; music by John Frizzell; production designer, Charles Breen; produced by John Bertolli and B. J. Rack; released by Destination Films.
Geared exclusively towards girls, the site attracted over 10,000 members just 5 days after its release on September 10, racking up 3.5 million page views in the same time frame.
Remove from the oven, leave to rest for five minutes, then carefully turn out on to a wire rack to release the bread – you may need to loosen the sides with a knife first.
Let the cake cool for 10 minutes on a rack before releasing the sides of the springform or tart pan.
