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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending April 15, 2012

  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 (3) War Horse 250,053 -57% 835,898  $4,783,514  $14,737,021 2
2 new The Iron Lady 233,474   233,474  $3,499,775  $3,499,775 1
3 (2) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 190,740 -73% 1,823,588  $3,431,413  $30,050,838 3
4 (4) We Bought a Zoo 187,665 -65% 731,346  $3,376,093  $12,613,233 2
5 new The Darkest Hour 139,004   139,004  $2,083,670  $2,083,670 1
6 (1) Hop 90,094 -88% 2,150,016  $1,723,498  $35,467,741 4
7 new One Tree Hill: The Complete Ninth and Final Season 88,794   88,794  $2,218,962  $2,218,962 1
8 (5) The Muppets 72,540 -79% 1,404,913  $1,389,446  $23,486,316 4
9 (12) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 64,739 -16% 812,949  $1,235,868  $14,169,320 4
10 (11) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 58,962 -25% 366,173  $883,840  $5,488,932 3
11 (6) Puss in Boots 42,109 -70% 2,529,986  $712,905  $41,661,744 8
12 (26) Game of Thrones: Season 1 41,386 +18% 701,023  $1,406,710  $23,827,773 53
13 (28) Downton Abbey: Series 2 41,144 +25% 747,367  $822,469  $14,818,150 15
14 (-) Downton Abbey: Series 1 40,716 +133% 352,100  $691,765  $6,005,506 67
15 (10) Happy Feet Two 39,058 -62% 1,133,335  $605,008  $17,164,241 5
16 (22) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 36,408 -11% 4,908,592  $653,524  $89,576,823 10
17 (7) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 36,183 -71% 862,504  $516,693  $10,673,959 6
18 (19) The Descendants 35,332 -32% 843,180  $528,213  $12,881,823 5
19 (9) The Adventures of Tintin 34,657 -67% 778,041  $622,093  $12,322,580 5
20 (23) The Sitter 33,857 -14% 290,306  $642,944  $5,098,912 4
21 (24) Immortals 29,106 -24% 898,983  $551,559  $15,656,106 6
22 (25) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 26,488 -31% 221,457  $552,691  $4,351,780 703
23 (20) Footloose 23,648 -48% 646,208  $447,893  $11,286,129 6
24 (21) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 23,636 -43% 215,702  $398,267  $3,469,402 4
25 (18) Hugo 23,230 -60% 929,765  $300,828  $15,376,020 7
26 (29) My Week with Marilyn 20,054 -27% 295,461  $302,013  $4,501,055 5
27 (-) The Bodyguard 18,790 -28% 910,427  $112,176  $5,126,513 960
28 (15) Lady and the Tramp 16,278 -76% 6,453,535  $570,544  $128,644,076 709
29 (-) J. Edgar 14,844 -18% 567,457  $222,512  $8,506,183 8
30 (-) The Hangover Part II 14,078 +113% 3,467,952  $120,930  $43,666,712 19

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.