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United States Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending December 18, 2011

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Rise of the Planet of the Apes 728,633   728,633  $16,816,850  $16,816,850 1
2 new Kung Fu Panda 2 421,806   421,806  $10,009,448  $10,009,448 1
3 (1) The Hangover Part II 269,376 -60% 937,682  $6,102,862  $19,656,373 2
4 (5) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II 203,070 +72% 1,974,215  $3,113,635  $42,016,667 6
5 (2) Cowboys and Aliens 181,721 -61% 650,204  $4,662,747  $14,396,718 2
6 (3) The Help 140,116 -64% 524,592  $3,921,850  $14,683,346 2
7 (14) Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) 98,875 +113% 951,399  $8,101,858  $76,453,050 12
8 (12) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 93,848 +78% 1,820,850  $2,134,274  $49,476,329 9
9 (13) Harry Potter: The Complete Collection Years 1-7 81,607 +71% 296,778  $6,527,736  $23,739,222 6
10 (4) The Smurfs 80,222 -55% 436,835  $2,011,873  $10,094,335 3
11 (8) The Lion King 80,150 +23% 2,065,341  $1,803,482  $57,247,251 877
12 (10) Captain America: The First Avenger 78,037 +30% 1,233,419  $1,801,833  $30,947,387 8
13 (9) Cars 2 77,235 +21% 1,237,186  $1,862,654  $31,476,345 7
14 (15) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I 76,361 +65% 2,710,834  $804,899  $57,570,937 36
15 new Fright Night 69,074   69,074  $1,958,259  $1,958,259 1
16 (7) Super 8 61,934 -10% 501,964  $1,389,175  $11,016,447 4
17 (16) Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy 56,906 +28% 1,764,217  $2,847,186  $118,374,947 366
18 (-) Thor 50,567 +201% 1,002,068  $1,088,263  $25,623,582 14
19 (22) Bridesmaids 50,203 +99% 793,905  $963,531  $15,781,143 13
20 (20) Transformers: Dark of the Moon 46,705 +49% 2,099,819  $1,155,534  $47,123,396 12

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.