Chapter 8. Bestsellers and Blockbusters: Movies Music and Books This chapter is a survey on the economics of blockbusters and bestsellers in popular entertainment and culture with a particular focus on empirical methods and applications to movies music and books. We first survey various conceptual models on the economics of superstars and the winner take all nature of product success. We then survey the range of statistical methodologies that can be used to quantify formally the winner take all nature of the distribution of success while estimating the correlates of success across competing titles. In separate subsections for movies music and books we survey the empirical literature that relates to the blockbuster phenomenon. The final section discusses specific current topics related to the distribution of success focusing on issues that appear to be fruitful areas for future research.