Amazon USA has unveiled its Best of 2006 List, and Apple iPods and the Nintendo DS Lite figured high among the top-sellers.
The Best of List, though, also covers products that the company says were most positively reviewed and the gifts that were most-wished-for and most frequently bought.
Best-sellers of 2006 - in terms of units sold - included:
Computer & Video
Games: Nintendo DS Lite - Polar White
Electronics: Apple iPods (various)
Software: World of Warcraft
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Music: Taking The Long Way - Dixie Chicks
Toys: Radica 20 Questions
Books: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't - Jim Collins
Electronics: Apple iPods (various)
Software: World of Warcraft
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Music: Taking The Long Way - Dixie Chicks
Toys: Radica 20 Questions
Books: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't - Jim Collins
Among the items most positively reviewed by Amazon customers were:
Computer & Video
Games: Legend of Zelda:
Ocarina of Time (N64)
Electronics: Sony DSCF707 Cyber-shot 5MP Digital Still Camera w/ 5x Optical Zoom
DVD: Mean Girls (full-screen edition)
Music: Josh Groban - Josh Groban
Toys: Fisher Price Learning Home
Books: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) - JK Rowling
Electronics: Sony DSCF707 Cyber-shot 5MP Digital Still Camera w/ 5x Optical Zoom
DVD: Mean Girls (full-screen edition)
Music: Josh Groban - Josh Groban
Toys: Fisher Price Learning Home
Books: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) - JK Rowling
The most-wished-for list included:
Computer & Video
Games: Nintendo Wii
Electronics: Apple 30 GB iPod with video playback - black (5th generation)
Software: The Sims 2: Open for Business expansion pack
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Music: Taking The Long Way - Dixie Chicks
Books: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D Levitt
Electronics: Apple 30 GB iPod with video playback - black (5th generation)
Software: The Sims 2: Open for Business expansion pack
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Music: Taking The Long Way - Dixie Chicks
Books: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D Levitt
Among the items most frequently bought as gifts were:
Computer & Video
Games: Xbox 360 Console (20GB)
Electronics: Apple 30 GB iPod with video playback
Software: Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Music: Duets: An American Classic - Tony Bennett
Toys: IlluStory: Write and Illustrate Your Own Book!
Books: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama
Electronics: Apple 30 GB iPod with video playback
Software: Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Music: Duets: An American Classic - Tony Bennett
Toys: IlluStory: Write and Illustrate Your Own Book!
Books: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama
Amazon UK says it enjoyed its biggest Christmas to date and that seasonal best sellers included:
DVD: Pirates of the Caribbean
– Dead Man’s Chest (also the overall
Christmas No.1)
Electronics: Kingston Technology 1GB Data Traveller USB Flash Pen Drive (knocking the 30 GB Apple iPod off top spot!)
Music: Now That’s What I Call Music 65
Toys: Doctor Who (various - four out of the top 10!)
Books: Why Don’t Penguins feet freeze? And 114 other questions
Electronics: Kingston Technology 1GB Data Traveller USB Flash Pen Drive (knocking the 30 GB Apple iPod off top spot!)
Music: Now That’s What I Call Music 65
Toys: Doctor Who (various - four out of the top 10!)
Books: Why Don’t Penguins feet freeze? And 114 other questions
Videos were clearly a huge UK favourite. Planet Earth – 5 Disc Box Set and High School Musical were the third and fifth overall best-sellers as well as taking the second and third spots in DVD behind Pirates.
All good to know but the important thing, of course, is, whether or not Santa brought you what you wanted?
Share your Christmas highs (and lows) with us in this thread in the HEXUS.lifestyle.new forum.
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