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United States Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending January 1, 2012

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 (2) Rise of the Planet of the Apes 149,141 -57% 1,226,157  $2,378,799  $27,466,254 3
- (-) Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy 100,018 +43% 1,933,972  $5,865,127  $128,329,501 368
2 (9) The Help 96,181 -46% 799,570  $2,692,107  $22,372,839 4
3 (1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II 86,681 -75% 2,409,837  $1,321,751  $48,670,795 8
4 (7) Kung Fu Panda 2 68,948 -67% 697,222  $1,264,621  $16,505,259 3
5 new Final Destination 5 51,498   51,498  $1,485,148  $1,485,148 1
6 (4) The Hangover Part II 46,935 -85% 1,292,871  $932,157  $25,664,604 4
7 (13) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 36,331 -74% 1,997,281  $738,885  $53,035,061 11
8 (18) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I 34,824 -65% 2,844,478  $381,833  $58,975,670 38
9 (6) The Lion King 32,781 -86% 2,324,410  $694,905  $62,434,748 879
10 (12) Cowboys and Aliens 31,484 -80% 839,549  $805,388  $19,226,488 4
11 (3) Dolphin Tale 31,305 -91% 367,265  $824,813  $9,187,939 2
12 (10) Warrior 29,217 -83% 198,733  $584,042  $3,669,225 2
13 new Apollo 18 28,889   28,889  $701,415  $701,415 1
14 (-) Mission: Impossible III 28,620   28,620  $858,319  $858,319 270
15 (-) The Dark Knight 27,024 -52% 1,750,810  $236,193  $23,197,223 160
16 (8) Cars 2 25,742 -87% 1,467,931  $552,999  $36,138,735 9
17 (-) Fast Five 25,399 +457% 1,285,028  $385,726  $26,000,361 13
- (-) Straw Dogs 25,364 -90% 271,437  $507,026  $5,426,029 2
- (-) Inception 25,333 -26% 3,358,441  $327,557  $70,101,951 56

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.