(Daily Wire) J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” book sales and viewership of the movie based off his bestseller have soared after former President Donald Trump named the Ohio Senator his vice presidential pick.
Following Trump’s announcement on Monday that Vance would be his running-mate in the 2024 election, Amazon sales for the VP nominee’s 2016 book in paperback and hardcover catapulted it to the best seller list, The Hill reported.
As of Tuesday morning, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” was in the number one and two spot on Amazon, The Hill noted. Before the announcement on Monday, the book was at number 220, theAssociated Press noted.
By Monday night, the AP reported that sales for “Hillbilly Elegy” totaled at least 1.6 million copies.
By the same note, after Trump’s VP pick was announced, viewership on Netflix for the movie based on Vance’s book increased by 180% to 19.2M minutes watched on July 15, according to data from Luminate, Deadline noted. The day prior, 1.5M minutes had been watched. Translated into individual viewers, that’s 164,000 viewers on Monday compared to the 9,000 the day before.
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Netflix views up 1000% since JD Vance named as Trump’s VP pick — No. 1 on Amazon https://t.co/EIxhmt5Cgk pic.twitter.com/XLP3r2b6y5
— New York Post (@nypost) July 16, 2024
