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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending December 16, 2012
| Title | Units this Week | % Change | Total Units | Spending this Week | Total Spending | Weeks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | new | Ted | 1,667,019 | 1,667,019 | $27,905,898 | $27,905,898 | 1 | |
| 2 | (1) | The Dark Knight Rises | 825,841 | -59% | 2,853,055 | $11,941,661 | $38,295,443 | 2 |
| 3 | new | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 653,972 | 653,972 | $10,901,713 | $10,901,713 | 1 | |
| 4 | new | The Bourne Legacy | 562,452 | 562,452 | $9,983,523 | $9,983,523 | 1 | |
| 5 | (2) | Brave | 352,074 | -31% | 5,195,886 | $6,164,886 | $89,476,628 | 5 |
| 6 | (7) | Elf | 210,878 | +6% | 5,031,479 | $1,817,157 | $48,714,287 | 422 |
| 7 | (3) | Men in Black 3 | 182,205 | -60% | 1,005,199 | $3,507,446 | $17,784,446 | 3 |
| 8 | (16) | Magic Mike | 182,038 | +41% | 1,810,249 | $1,636,522 | $24,871,634 | 8 |
| 9 | (4) | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | 164,868 | -55% | 530,983 | $2,895,082 | $9,225,210 | 2 |
| 10 | (12) | A Christmas Story | 164,535 | +14% | 2,803,706 | $1,365,229 | $32,627,111 | 638 |
| 11 | (15) | The Polar Express | 156,366 | +18% | 6,345,737 | $1,476,971 | $72,533,950 | 364 |
| 12 | (9) | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | 152,532 | +3% | 4,283,654 | $1,308,603 | $51,298,417 | 787 |
| 13 | (13) | The Avengers | 147,698 | +5% | 4,414,579 | $2,906,697 | $82,093,220 | 12 |
| 14 | (5) | The Dark Knight Trilogy | 143,197 | -57% | 472,619 | $3,717,394 | $12,269,189 | 2 |
| 15 | (19) | The Hunger Games | 138,363 | +12% | 7,094,528 | $1,456,962 | $118,876,428 | 18 |
| 16 | (11) | The Expendables 2 | 134,695 | -8% | 881,195 | $1,990,792 | $13,655,510 | 4 |
| 17 | (17) | Secret of the Wings | 122,359 | -5% | 2,129,167 | $2,162,084 | $40,164,883 | 8 |
| 18 | (14) | The Amazing Spider-Man | 105,022 | -22% | 1,545,497 | $1,842,086 | $27,713,017 | 6 |
| 19 | (20) | Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted | 101,521 | -16% | 2,777,518 | $1,086,275 | $46,047,904 | 9 |
| 20 | (22) | Lawless | 101,120 | -9% | 428,441 | $1,081,984 | $6,884,497 | 3 |
| 21 | (21) | Cinderella | 96,687 | -17% | 663,008 | $4,382,822 | $28,205,176 | 376 |
| 22 | (8) | Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | 88,685 | -54% | 5,009,049 | $1,204,342 | $75,531,326 | 19 |
| 23 | (23) | Mary Poppins | 84,318 | -12% | 1,535,141 | $1,630,575 | $28,662,618 | 769 |
| 24 | (28) | The Lucky One | 81,612 | +14% | 1,445,542 | $605,561 | $17,871,747 | 16 |
| 25 | (6) | Hope Springs | 77,777 | -72% | 359,357 | $1,511,207 | $6,376,909 | 2 |
| 26 | (24) | Horton Hears a Who! | 73,184 | -22% | 5,050,124 | $291,404 | $76,746,407 | 210 |
| 27 | (26) | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 72,210 | -13% | 3,526,515 | $432,538 | $45,458,709 | 27 |
| 28 | (-) | Home Alone | 70,306 | +115% | 3,416,842 | $529,622 | $42,872,476 | 689 |
| 29 | (10) | ParaNorman | 69,141 | -53% | 529,670 | $1,380,054 | $9,778,869 | 3 |
| 30 | (30) | Despicable Me | 68,846 | +3% | 8,786,342 | $687,772 | $145,065,819 | 105 |
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.
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