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Black Birthday Candles

Fail

Prices span $5.05–$12.70, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Black Birthday Candles is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 9,007 of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · −9 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$108K/yr149K searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
60%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 11 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Birthday Candles against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Black Birthday Candles is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Birthday Candles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Birthday Candles 149K times last year and spent an estimated $108K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 149K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $108K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
149K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.6%
Conversion, latest week
10.8%
Market size, estimated
$108Ka year
Peak month
October1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
black birthday candles78K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $6.75.

Listings sell for $6.75 on average, from $5.05 to $12.70. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $6.75 that is $3K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$6.75under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.05–$12.70
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$5K
Returns
1.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #291 within Candles. It carries 840 reviews at 4.75 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.6%
Average rank
#291in Candles
Average rating
4.75 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
840per listing
Listings tracked
17

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 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top Black Birthday Candles 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 31, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$11K$22K$32K$43K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

11

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

13%

  • PHD CAKE50%
  • CAKE CODE12%
  • Bakery Crafts9%
  • ARTISAN CAKE8%
  • Bella Meri4%
  • BEAN LIEVE4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 13%)

Demand

Black Birthday Candles search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Black Birthday Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • black birthday candles78K/yr
  • black candles for cake21K/yr
  • black cake candles12K/yr
  • black candles birthday12K/yr
  • birthday candles black8K/yr
  • black birthday candle5K/yr
  • black and white birthday candles5K/yr
  • black birthday candles for cake4K/yr
  • black candles cake3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Birthday Candles

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
25%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.4%of orders come back
“Poor quality control and service”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”25% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Birthday Candles 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