It was a year of Minions, Mallorca hits and novels by bestselling authors such as Bonnie Garmus, as well as a year of “magical animals”. The following overview shows who was at the top of the individual entertainment categories and media sectors in 2022:
Most visited movie
The Minions have been visited the most in German cinemas. “The cinema winner of the year 2022 is called “Minions – In Search of the Mini-Boss (3D)””, Media Control announced on Friday. “The 3D animation film for big and small made it onto the podium with 4.2 million viewers.” In 2021, “James Bond 007: No Time to Die” with Daniel Craig was ahead with 5.9 million cinema viewers.
In the remaining days until the end of 2022, the film “Avatar: The Way of Water”, which only started on December 14th, could catch up. He had the best start of the year in Germany. 1.33 million tickets have already been sold in the first five days.
A big hit in cinemas in 2022 was “Top Gun: Maverick” with Tom Cruise. From the end of May, more than three and a half million cinema-goers were counted in Germany for the sequel to the 1980s hit “Top Gun”.
Best Selling DVD
“For the first time, the children’s and young people’s book series “The School of Magical Animals”, which has sold over 7 million books in Germany alone and has been translated into 26 languages, is coming to the big screen,” said Media Control. The first film adaptation of the stories by author Margit Auer (director: Gregor Schnitzler) was released in cinemas in 2021. In 2022 it was a hit as a home cinema adventure for the whole family at home on DVD. “The School of Magical Animals 2” (Director: Sven Unterwaldt) was shown in cinemas from the end of September this year, parts 3 and 4 are planned for 2024 and 2025.
Best Selling Book
The debut novel by American author Bonnie Garmus in her mid-sixties is at the top of the annual German literature charts. “A Question of Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus is the best-selling book of 2022,” said Media Control. The novel, which was published by Piper at the end of March, catapulted itself to number one. The book is about the scientist Elizabeth Zott, who fights for recognition in the still strictly patriarchal world of the early 1960s. In 2021 Delia Owens landed at the top of the novels with her bestseller “The Song of the Crayfish”. Its film version was shown in cinemas in 2022.
Most Listened Audiobook
According to Media Control, the “most successful audio book of 2022” was the novel “Forever a part of you” (Hörbuch Hamburg Verlag) by Colleen Hoover. In 2021, the entertainer Hape Kerkeling won in this category with his book “Paws from the table! My cats, other cats and I”.
Most Read eBook
“The best-selling e-book of 2022 is the 16th crime novel “Ostfriesensturm” by Klaus-Peter Wolf,” said Media Control. In 2021, the best-selling e-book was the novel “The Missing Sister” by Irish writer Lucinda Riley.
Best Selling Game
“The best-selling game of 2022 is a home escape room game,” Media Control said. The most successful game in the German book trade was “EXIT – The Game: Shadows over Middle-Earth” (Kosmos) by Inka and Markus Brand.
album of the year
As GfK Entertainment, the investigator of the Official German Charts, announced on December 9, by far the most successful album of the year in Germany was the work “Zeit” by the German band Rammstein. The rock band’s eleventh number one record sold more than 340,000 copies by mid-December.
hit of the year
The Mallorca hit and party hit “Layla” by DJ Robin, which grew up on Ballermann and is controversial as sexist
Media Control wrote ten days later after its own evaluation that “As It Was” by Harry Styles was “the best-selling music song of 2022”.
