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United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending May 13, 2012

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RankTitleUnits
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Week
Total
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Spending
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Total
Spending
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1 The Vow 879,190 879,190  $15,732,310  $15,732,310 1
2 Underworld: Awakening 701,259 701,259  $13,172,972  $13,172,972 1
3 Joyful Noise 147,103 578,066  $2,330,409  $8,987,125 2
4 Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol 126,658 1,854,172  $2,111,801  $32,016,619 4
5 Thor 119,124 2,699,826  $1,996,878  $55,840,138 35
6 Bridesmaids 118,951 5,409,113  $1,326,685  $80,130,015 34
7 Captain America: The First Avenger 113,849 3,401,246  $1,941,654  $71,345,648 29
8 Contraband 101,185 958,211  $2,160,248  $18,067,646 3
9 New Year’s Eve 91,809 504,855  $1,506,319  $7,852,587 2
10 The Help 91,573 5,849,912  $1,518,569  $109,493,001 23
11 Haywire 88,111 345,003  $1,439,936  $5,608,385 2
12 We Bought a Zoo 79,221 1,286,485  $1,150,280  $23,738,661 6
13 Chuck: The Complete Fifth Season 72,806 72,806  $2,045,322  $2,045,322 1
14 West Side Story 66,742 165,309  $1,121,953  $2,926,981 449
15 Wrestlemania XXVIII 65,632 65,632  $1,220,516  $1,220,516 1
16 Iron Man 2 61,361 7,802,928  $752,380  $171,821,787 85
17 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 58,135 2,608,111  $907,330  $46,256,946 7
18 Downton Abbey: Series 1 57,611 494,878  $1,060,516  $8,711,144 71
19 War Horse 56,202 1,626,502  $1,150,333  $32,694,093 6
20 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 53,885 626,631  $594,581  $9,745,123 7

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.