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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending December 6, 2009

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 1,629,704   1,629,704  $16,863,036  $16,863,036 1
2 new Terminator Salvation 1,008,787   1,008,787  $10,077,782  $10,077,782 1
3 (1) Up 515,475 -58% 6,614,216  $9,982,225  $111,367,624 4
4 (6) Star Trek 490,541 -31% 4,787,654  $8,193,114  $68,755,320 3
5 (3) Santa Buddies 436,272 -55% 1,407,068  $9,132,351  $23,907,866 2
6 (4) Angels & Demons 353,483 -57% 1,180,132  $5,874,110  $18,257,312 2
7 (5) Four Christmases 271,183 -62% 985,420  $4,336,216  $14,535,520 2
8 (14) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 224,247 -36% 574,130  $3,756,989  $9,817,174 426
9 (-) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 189,861 +55% 8,528,044  $3,985,182  $191,152,662 7
10 (-) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 159,222 +68% 3,729,614  $2,763,521  $60,066,244 5
11 (30) The Proposal 156,940 -9% 4,213,818  $2,381,533  $68,862,077 8
12 (-) Twilight 155,078 +6% 9,836,341  $2,910,907  $178,166,042 38
13 (-) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 146,184 +49% 4,311,287  $2,820,196  $73,078,077 6
14 (-) Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure 121,739 -14% 2,848,552  $1,824,868  $45,001,990 6
15 (-) Alvin and the Chipmunks 109,451 +13,429% 7,686,315  $1,116,400  $129,025,000 88
16 (23) Funny People 102,671 -48% 298,564  $2,061,480  $5,560,129 2
17 (25) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 98,923 -48% 2,511,981  $1,146,923  $34,332,016 629
18 (-) The Original Television Christmas Classics 96,374 +116% 3,786,819  $1,926,516  $99,320,049 273
19 (16) The Polar Express 95,664 -70% 4,884,158  $818,549  $59,586,258 206
20 (-) A Christmas Story 95,501 +336% 1,482,739  $1,009,235  $19,586,691 480
21 (-) The Ugly Truth 93,871 +24% 1,250,280  $1,407,126  $20,223,547 4
22 (-) Night at the Museum 85,276 +5,065% 9,191,694  $1,091,814  $153,058,218 137
23 (15) Monsters vs. Aliens 80,344 -77% 4,511,928  $1,143,552  $74,933,662 10
24 (-) Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series 79,530 +17,812% 3,330,222  $2,322,276  $183,408,710 137
25 (8) Elf 72,033 -86% 2,283,563  $637,492  $26,077,391 264
26 (2) The Dark Knight 70,289 -94% 14,746,097  $787,089  $237,368,590 52
27 (22) My Sister's Keeper 66,166 -69% 789,003  $1,322,658  $12,169,545 3
28 (-) The Taking of Pelham 123 57,366 +183% 1,314,284  $917,282  $20,322,858 5
29 (-) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 56,877   56,877  $568,201  $568,201 477
30 (-) Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (TV S… 56,714 +256% 1,896,729  $738,983  $30,386,857 159

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.