Comics dominated France’s Top 50 bestselling books of 2022 list

Consumer analytics agency GfK and Livres Hebdo launched their report on the highest fifty bestselling books for 2022 in France and comics took a hefty chunk of that: 18 comics titles sat within the high 50 bestseller list, together with the yr’s highest promoting title, Christophe Blain and Jean-Marc Jancovici‘s World Without End.

Based on the report, which doesn’t embody a full list of gross sales numbers, the final fiction prose ebook class remained dominant, represented by 27 titles (54%) however comics took an enormous chunk of the remaining share – 18 titles (36%) , leaving simply 5 titles of different ebook classes filling out the highest 50. Quite a feat – and that’s not taking into consideration the complete scope of the sale figures.

According to the report, 

“Symbolizing the new dynamics of the book market, the 2022 Top 50 Books list is dominated by comics and manga. This list reflects the major trends in the publishing market in recent years and comprises 11.7 million overall copies sold.”

Adding,

“While general literature remains the dominant [book] category, comics and manga are establishing themselves permanently in the Top 50.”

France’s high three highest promoting books of 2022 – which do have gross sales figures quoted – had been led by a comic book: the juggernaut 2021-released hit Le Monde Sans Fin [“World Without End“] by Christophe Blain and Jean-Marc Jancovici at 514,000 copies. The local weather and vitality disaster title had persistently remained within the month-to-month comics charts all year long and the cumulative success put it properly forward of the most recent Joel Dicker novel The Alaska Sanders Affair (432,000) and Pierre Lemaitre’s The Great World (335,000) within the general bestseller charts too.

The report additionally said that whereas gross sales in 2022 had been larger than in 2019 and 2020, in comparison with the huge bumper yr of 2021 gross sales had been really down 9% – doubtless because of this of reopening from pandemic-induced lockdowns and French society returning to a level of normality with much less time caught indoors to learn.

GfK Market Intelligence Books marketing consultant Casseline Rosello stated within the report,

“General Literature and Comics dominate the 2022 ranking. General fiction accounts for 27 titles, almost entirely in Contemporary Fiction. At the same time, the French public favored 18 comics works, including 12 manga – Shonen exclusively, and among the classic series of the genre: Naruto, One Piece and Demon Slayer, were also joined by Spy X Family.”

Like the remainder of the world, manga is booming in France. Manga was all the time trending upwards however the introduction of a authorities Culture Pass app in the course of the pandemic that gave €300 (~$320) for 18-year-olds to spend on the humanities, gave comics a serious enhance and manga was the drug of selection. 

According to a 2021 New York Times article,

“As of [July 2021], books represented over 75 percent of all purchases made through the app since it was introduced nationwide in May [2021] — and roughly two-thirds of those books were manga, according to the organization that runs the app”

In the highest 5 promoting manga of 2022 had been three collection – Eiichiro Oda‘s One Piece, Tatsuya Endo‘s Spy x Family, and Masashi Kishimoto‘s Naruto. Spy x Family‘s reputation is relatively new however the comedy motion collection has already garnered acclaim and a focus. It made the 2021 Angoulême official choice and an anime adaptation debuted earlier this yr.

The high 5 promoting comics (or bande dessinée) titles excluding manga had been topped by the continued success of the 2021 launched eco-conscious graphic non-fiction title World Without End, adopted by the concluding sixth-volume in Riad Sattouf‘s Arab of the Future autobio series. The newest instalment in the continuation of Edgar P. Jacobs’ in style Franco-Belgian Blake and Mortimer collection – vol 29: Eight Hours in Berlin (out there in English with Cinebook) by Jean-Luc Fromental, José-Louis Bocquet and Antoine Aubin – had third place. Fourth and fifth place had been each held by the most recent (nineteenth!) and first volumes of the extraordinarily in style youngsters title Mortelle Adèle [tr: “Deadly Adele“] a couple of cynical and precocious schoolgirl. Mortelle Adèle is written by Antoine Dolé – beneath pseudonym Mr Tan – with artwork by Miss Prickly (vols 1-7) and Diane Le Feyer (vol 8-present). In late 2020 the Mortelle Adèle collection had virtually handed 5 million copies bought.

Here are the highest 5 charts for Manga and Comics 

Source: GfK & Livres Hebdo

Source: GfK & Livres Hebdo

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