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

United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending December 30, 2012

  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 (1) Ted 714,437 -31% 3,423,343  $12,817,000  $59,643,566 3
2 (2) The Dark Knight Rises 670,142 -25% 4,414,531  $7,170,519  $54,548,655 4
3 (3) Pitch Perfect 626,847 -22% 1,432,851  $12,551,922  $26,784,824 2
4 (4) Ice Age: Continental Drift 274,630 -51% 1,494,659  $5,481,615  $24,664,742 3
5 (5) Brave 240,194 -47% 5,892,322  $3,723,127  $99,646,500 7
6 (25) Resident Evil: Retribution 211,759 +120% 307,925  $3,803,192  $5,530,333 2
7 (8) The Bourne Legacy 203,543 -25% 1,037,511  $4,062,718  $19,465,700 3
8 (7) Men in Black 3 189,397 -31% 1,468,196  $3,376,949  $24,581,395 5
9 (6) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days 187,040 -53% 583,374  $2,889,768  $9,603,666 2
10 (16) Magic Mike 176,252 +20% 2,133,928  $1,559,830  $27,893,940 10
11 (9) Trouble with the Curve 171,179 -29% 412,063  $2,560,838  $6,205,413 2
12 (14) The Hunger Games 160,534 -10% 7,434,058  $2,176,841  $123,736,419 20
13 (10) Total Recall 145,316 -31% 355,048  $2,609,875  $6,248,725 2
14 (17) The Amazing Spider-Man 143,245 +3% 1,828,251  $2,054,133  $31,851,414 8
15 (11) The Avengers 140,458 -32% 4,761,539  $2,803,542  $88,640,643 14
16 (28) The Dark Knight 117,453 +38% 17,811,550  $505,670  $263,210,897 212
17 (-) Batman Begins 101,807 +49% 4,829,092  $475,062  $49,419,502 376
18 (-) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 100,378 +57% 3,690,720  $635,393  $46,476,426 29
19 (23) The Expendables 2 97,735 -11% 1,089,162  $1,855,988  $16,754,915 6
20 (18) Cinderella 92,091 -32% 891,169  $3,853,087  $37,307,844 378
21 (21) The Dark Knight Trilogy 84,518 -28% 674,974  $2,194,087  $17,522,325 4
22 (22) Lawless 69,545 -39% 611,155  $1,335,959  $10,335,585 5
23 (19) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 62,553 -53% 4,478,527  $598,707  $53,161,005 789
24 (-) Savages 61,227 +125% 403,135  $917,793  $7,194,859 7
25 (27) A Christmas Story 55,989 -36% 2,947,818  $548,983  $34,037,866 640
26 (13) Secret of the Wings 54,583 -71% 2,371,290  $847,128  $43,648,936 10
27 (-) Premium Rush 54,297 +118% 79,198  $1,083,768  $1,580,792 2
28 (-) Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King 52,469 +15% 1,488,926  $329,558  $23,476,661 420
29 (-) Mary Poppins 52,184 -23% 1,655,319  $1,039,662  $31,053,130 771
30 (26) Elf 51,427 -43% 5,172,814  $386,669  $49,899,959 424

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.