See also: Weekly DVD Sales Chart - Weekly DVD and Blu-ray Sales Combined Chart - DEG Watched at Home Top 20 - Netflix Daily Top 10

United States Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending October 23, 2011

  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 1,111,098   1,111,098  $31,544,072  $31,544,072 1
2 (2) Green Lantern 215,553 -34% 540,621  $4,852,098  $12,712,253 2
3 (1) The Lion King 135,554 -58% 1,484,022  $3,612,356  $42,422,066 869
4 new Bad Teacher 87,555   87,555  $2,043,523  $2,043,523 1
5 new Batman: Year One 66,110   66,110  $1,404,845  $1,404,845 1
6 (4) Fast Five 63,999 -68% 999,500  $1,307,424  $20,905,594 3
7 (3) Horrible Bosses 60,555 -72% 274,158  $1,354,505  $5,957,657 2
8 (5) Transformers: Dark of the Moon 56,333 -60% 1,795,740  $1,404,849  $40,137,385 4
- (-) The Sound of Music 42,707 +793% 805,419  $1,056,146  $21,333,149 985
9 (-) The Crow 28,222   28,222  $338,380  $338,380 856
10 (7) Bridesmaids 25,000 -41% 605,327  $488,924  $12,047,516 5
11 (-) The Dark Knight 24,666 +464% 1,503,368  $315,976  $20,425,508 150
12 (10) Thor 23,666 -29% 816,324  $615,100  $21,520,523 6
13 (9) X-Men: First Class 21,222 -37% 902,655  $534,459  $21,900,748 7
14 (11) Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) 19,555 -38% 715,619  $1,659,269  $55,621,942 4
15 new Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season … 19,111   19,111  $777,240  $777,240 1
16 (6) Zookeeper 17,889 -76% 92,340  $431,489  $2,207,899 2
17 (12) Pulp Fiction 17,000 -33% 92,843  $218,107  $1,203,311 816
18 (-) Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End 12,222 +999% 248,547  $195,431  $4,289,826 203
19 (17) Terminator 2: Judgment Day 11,333 -12% 228,279  $109,114  $3,620,629 731

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.