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United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending October 7, 2012

RankTitleUnits
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Spending
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Spending
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1 The Avengers 1,285,744 6,384,702  $32,474,343  $137,280,360 2
2 Dark Shadows 616,386 616,386  $10,620,058  $10,620,058 1
3 Cinderella 614,570 759,892  $14,959,622  $18,606,946 366
4 The Hunger Games 103,703 8,175,986  $2,055,576  $149,625,473 8
5 How I Met Your Mother Season 7 94,596 94,596  $1,975,164  $1,975,164 1
6 Snow White and the Huntsman 87,336 1,830,917  $1,882,615  $35,718,409 4
7 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 53,816 505,284  $1,101,823  $9,701,675 3
8 People Like Us 48,058 112,121  $930,133  $2,208,190 1
9 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 47,907 4,278,636  $790,935  $84,811,715 9
10 Barbie: The Princess and The Popstar 47,464 705,378  $710,061  $9,492,965 4
11 Hocus Pocus 47,297 750,263  $398,868  $5,608,448 540
12 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 46,204 193,170  $773,878  $2,757,120 2
13 The Carol Burnett Show: Carol's Favorites 42,883 42,883  $1,607,684  $1,607,684 2
14 Downton Abbey: Season 1 & 2 Gift Set 39,871 39,871  $1,512,406  $1,512,406 1
15 The Cabin in the Woods 39,332 427,411  $651,055  $7,156,734 3
16 Battleship 37,749 1,192,993  $646,389  $23,970,431 6
17 The Lucky One 35,076 1,012,155  $498,238  $15,789,508 6
18 Thor 33,563 3,117,808  $597,530  $62,884,664 56
19 American Horror Story: Season 1, Murder House 33,494 140,967  $1,293,774  $4,296,450 2
20 Captain America: The First Avenger 30,668 3,773,955  $569,616  $78,988,452 50

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.