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Warner Bros The LEGO Movie Videogame is the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for the second week in a row.
Sales of the game were up seven per cent week on week with the film on which it is based also topping the UK cinema listings.
The highest new entry comes from Nintendo, whose Wii U platformer Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze entering the list in ninth. The debut of Rayman: Legends on PS4 and Xbox One sees sales of Ubisoft’s title climb nearly 300 per cent and climb 23 places to tenth.
There’s also a new entry for Reef Entertainment’s Rambo: The Video Game in 21st.
Last week there were five LEGO games in the Top 40 – and this week that number has climbed to nine, meaning LEGO accounts for nearly a QUARTER of the UK Top 40.
Combined UK revenue for LEGO titles alone last week hit 145m. The Danish brand is currently tenth in the UK’s all-time brand revenue table (1995-2013).
