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Black Death Mega Sour Sweets

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Black Death Mega Sour Sweets is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 2,003 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −4 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£31K/yr85K searches / yr
90-day growth
+9.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
78%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 9 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Death Mega Sour Sweets against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Black Death Mega Sour Sweets is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Death Mega Sour Sweets market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Black Death Mega Sour Sweets 85K times last year and spent an estimated £31K. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 85K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +9.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £31K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
85K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+9.6%
Conversion, latest week
4.0%
Market size, estimated
£31Ka year
Peak month
December2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
black death sour candy29K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.05.

Listings sell for £9.05 on average, from £5.42 to £22.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £9.05 that is £905 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.05under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.42–£22.49
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£905–£2K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 80% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #9 within Confectionery. It carries 229 reviews at 3.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
80%
Out of stock, average day
10.9%
Average rank
#9in Confectionery
Average rating
3.70 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
229per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Black Death Mega Sour Sweets products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£3K£6K£9K£12K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 flat

Sellers

9

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Barnetts59%
  • MyCandyShop29%
  • Devils Chip Challenge5%
  • Retro Sweet Kings4%
  • iBrandz3%

Demand

Black Death Mega Sour Sweets search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

5K3KSpike '25Holiday '25Spike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Black Death Mega Sour Sweets search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • black death sour candy29K/yr
  • mega sour sweets12K/yr
  • worlds sourest sweets9K/yr
  • barnetts mega sour sweets6K/yr
  • sourest candy in the world3K/yr
  • sour balls5K/yr
  • super sour sweets challenge4K/yr
  • most sour sweets in the world3K/yr
  • world sourest candy1K/yr
  • mr simms black death sweets2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Death Mega Sour Sweets

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

49%of positive reviews mention “Sour”
55%of negative reviews mention “Sour”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Actually Sour”
A buyer, on “Sour”55% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Death Mega Sour Sweets questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data