Twilight (Novel Series) Statistics

Twilight is the most popular vampire series in history with an estimated 160 million copies sold in 49 different languages.

Twilight Sales Statistics

The Twilight series has sold over 160 million copies worldwide between the 4 main novels and the 2 major additional books.
Twilight spent 235 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list
Breaking Dawn, the 4th book, was published with an initial run of 3.7 million copies. It sold 1.3 million copies on the first day
The latest book, Midnight Sun, sold more than 1 million copies in its first week
Midnight Sun was going to be released in 2008 but was scrapped after an initial draft was leaked online, Meyer and her publishers eventually decided to publish it in 2020.
All 4 books filled the top 4 positions of USA Today’s bestseller lists for the year in 2008 and 2009 – Stephenie Meyer was the first author to do this.

Additional books:

Name	Publish Date
Life and Death:Twilight Reimagined	6 October 2015
Midnight Sun	4 August 2020

Name	Pages	Chapters	Wordcount	Audiobook Length
Twilight	498	24	118,975	12 hrs and 51 mins
New Moon	563	24	132,758	14 hrs and 51 mins
Eclipse	629	27	148,971	16 hrs and 26 mins
Breaking Dawn	756	39	186,542	20 hrs and 28 mins
Life and Death:Twilight Reimagined	442	–	116,31	–
Midnight Sun	658	29	240,095	25 hrs and 49 mins

The film versions of the first three books were released in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The fourth book was split into two movies that were released in 2011 and 2012.
The movies have made over $3.3 billion dollars at the box office globally.

Twilight was not expected to be a huge box office success so the first movie was shot with a relatively small budget of $37 million.
At one point, the production team had to find a way to cut $4 million from the budget to ensure the movie could continue.
New Moon and Eclipse had their budgets raised to over $50 million after the success of the first film.
Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 each had an even larger budget of over $100 million.
With the exception of Eclipse, each movie did better at the box office than the last.
Part of the success has been attributed to releasing the movies quickly in consecutive years before the hype died down rather than waiting long times between releases.

The idea for Twilight came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream she had where a girl and a vampire were in love.
She woke up and wrote a transcript, within 3 months she had completed a first draft of the book.
The book is influenced by Meyer’s Mormon heritage which has been ascribed as the reason for the tame approach to sex.
50 Shades of Gray started out as Twilight fan fiction
Meyer has also admitted this infuence may have impacted one of the main themes of the books which is overcoming desire.
Twilight is mainly told in the first person narrative from the perspective of Bella Swan.
Part 2 of Breaking Dawn is told from the perspective of the werewolf Jacob Black.
Midnight Sun is the re-telling of the first book in the series from the perspective of Edward Cullen.

Meyer did not have a complete understanding of the norms that have been established for vampires in fiction. As such, she drew on her limited knowledge and created her own version.
Meyer was informed of the differences between her vampires and established vampires and decided to continue with her own version.

Meyer was the bestselling author in 2008 and 2009
She is believed to have a net worth of around $125 million
Meyer earned $41 million from her books in 2010
In 2011, she earned $21 million from her books despite not releasing anything new

The Twilight series has been translated into at least 39 languages.

Some of the languages the books have been translated into are: