BOOK, ONLINE & PUBLICITY HIGHLIGHTS ON THE TWILIGHT SERIES

KansasCity.com gives us a few Twilight series facts:

The series of 4 books has sold over 17 million copies worldwide. Translation rights have been sold in 37 countries.

The series is a New York Times Best Seller and has been #1 for 47 weeks. Selected as the New York Times Editor’s Choice.

On USA Today’s Best Seller list for 96 weeks (TWILIGHT spent 6 weeks at #1).

BREAKING DAWN, the fourth book in the series and released on August 2, sold 1.3 million books in the first 24 hours.

For seven straight weeks after BREAKING DAWN was released, all four books in the series were on USA Today’s Top 5 Best Seller List.

The week BREAKING DAWN was released, TWILIGHT (released in 2005) had its best week ever and sold an additional 120,000 copies.

Recognition of the book has generated over 350 fan sites all over the world, including TwilightLexicon.com & TwilightMoms.com.

There were 14,314 online discussions within 123 communities about the film over the last two weeks ending in early October.

The official film website has received over 8 million visits, more than most film sites receive over the course of their life. Over 80% of the website’s registrants are between the ages of 13-24.

TWILIGHT is the 7th most searched movie on IMDb Pro’s MOVIEMeter (everything above it is already in theatres). Star Robert Pattinson is #5 on their STARMeter, ranking higher than Will Smith and Brad Pitt.

There was so much response to the TWILIGHT casting photos when they were initially posted, MTV.com’s server crashed. The response was very similar to in numbers to the likes of Harry Potter and Spider-Man franchises.

Since its release on MySpace’s Trailer Park, the first TWILIGHT teaser trailer has reached nearly four million views, comparable to Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

When EntertainmentTonight.com posted the second teaser trailer on their website, they received more views than any of their breaking news stories.

In the first 3 days of TWILIGHT’s second teaser trailer in mid-July, it was streamed 1.6 million times. Yahoo! expressed that this is one of the top 5 most popular trailers outside of any “summer movie.”

The debut of the final trailer in the TWILIGHT widget and on MySpace Trailer Park on Thursday night, 10/16, generated over 3.5 million views in the first 48 hours, and will surpass the views of both the first and second teasers.

Fan base generated thunderous applause and worldwide publicity at Comic-con International – with thousands of eager fans camping out the night before to see the cast and crew present new footage.

The Entertainment Weekly TWILIGHT Saga cover was the best-selling cover of the year for them, surpassing their Dark Knight and Harry Potter covers.

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Rob is ranked higher than Brad Pitt and Will Smith on IMDB?? MTV’s server was crashed?? Wow, I had no idea. What do you think of these facts? Are you surprised?