See also: Top-selling DVDs for 2012 - Combined Top-Selling Videos for 2012
Top-Selling Blu-rays in the United States 2012
Rank | Title | Units Sold | Total Consumer Spending |
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1 | The Avengers | 4,612,464 | $114,069,117 |
2 | The Dark Knight Rises | 3,229,290 | $72,791,362 |
3 | The Hunger Games | 2,820,035 | $56,650,830 |
4 | Brave | 2,117,979 | $48,222,320 |
5 | Ted | 1,891,427 | $41,916,267 |
6 | Cinderella | 1,471,702 | $33,566,090 |
7 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 1,466,057 | $29,712,789 |
8 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | 1,393,400 | $31,077,552 |
9 | Lady and the Tramp | 1,296,934 | $32,340,110 |
10 | Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | 1,277,640 | $30,437,748 |
11 | The Amazing Spider-Man | 1,248,242 | $27,544,837 |
12 | Prometheus | 1,144,134 | $23,792,101 |
13 | Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 1,111,645 | $20,739,563 |
14 | Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted | 938,566 | $20,448,643 |
15 | The Bourne Legacy | 924,308 | $20,785,959 |
16 | Puss in Boots | 874,809 | $21,040,280 |
17 | Snow White and the Huntsman | 872,186 | $17,867,405 |
18 | The Muppets | 788,573 | $21,410,241 |
19 | Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy | 785,750 | $43,607,689 |
20 | Finding Nemo | 784,761 | $20,927,385 |
21 | The Dark Knight Trilogy | 736,241 | $25,385,891 |
22 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 719,036 | $15,691,020 |
23 | Men in Black 3 | 708,079 | $17,136,020 |
24 | The Dark Knight | 703,913 | $8,586,972 |
25 | Wrath of the Titans | 698,396 | $15,658,858 |
26 | Act of Valor | 697,320 | $15,105,765 |
27 | Hop | 695,637 | $12,976,768 |
28 | Secret of the Wings | 689,816 | $17,631,496 |
29 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 642,506 | $12,647,824 |
30 | Real Steel | 640,139 | $18,186,157 |
31 | Batman Begins | 628,376 | $6,078,987 |
32 | Hugo | 618,263 | $15,080,694 |
33 | Immortals | 598,421 | $14,859,411 |
34 | The Expendables 2 | 592,237 | $11,756,466 |
35 | John Carter | 560,074 | $14,084,338 |
36 | Battleship | 553,506 | $12,448,752 |
37 | Game of Thrones: Season 1 | 540,786 | $27,362,542 |
38 | Captain America: The First Avenger | 530,673 | $14,017,315 |
39 | Safe House | 505,614 | $11,025,480 |
40 | Thor | 498,664 | $9,397,440 |
41 | The Adventures of Tintin | 468,904 | $11,789,209 |
42 | Underworld: Awakening | 458,880 | $9,751,976 |
43 | The Sound of Music | 455,980 | $12,001,409 |
44 | The Lion King | 453,305 | $12,073,886 |
45 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II | 448,813 | $9,079,043 |
46 | Moneyball | 445,564 | $9,043,471 |
47 | Pitch Perfect | 440,231 | $9,651,701 |
48 | War Horse | 437,186 | $11,399,539 |
49 | 21 Jump Street | 431,293 | $8,281,862 |
50 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 428,473 | $9,875,101 |
51 | Drive | 428,282 | $8,557,628 |
52 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 425,746 | $10,225,355 |
53 | Beauty and the Beast | 411,896 | $10,393,720 |
54 | Total Recall | 411,257 | $8,039,376 |
55 | Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) | 409,960 | $36,293,313 |
56 | Titanic | 389,621 | $10,432,821 |
57 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 373,234 | $6,474,479 |
58 | Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter | 364,398 | $7,323,397 |
59 | Contraband | 357,966 | $8,285,533 |
60 | Dark Shadows | 342,954 | $7,383,998 |
61 | Avatar | 337,549 | $8,797,509 |
62 | Despicable Me | 336,558 | $5,702,061 |
63 | Magic Mike | 321,857 | $7,090,720 |
64 | The Grey | 313,288 | $6,802,116 |
65 | Indiana Jones - The Complete Adventures Collection | 311,652 | $20,144,730 |
66 | In Time | 308,683 | $6,384,269 |
67 | American Reunion | 307,689 | $6,650,644 |
68 | Project X | 304,271 | $5,682,677 |
69 | Journey 2 Mysterious Island | 296,651 | $7,495,372 |
70 | The Help | 292,781 | $7,994,825 |
71 | Chronicle | 282,674 | $6,646,720 |
72 | Iron Man 2 | 280,716 | $3,894,713 |
73 | Gone with the Wind | 276,808 | $9,878,879 |
74 | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | 275,934 | $3,154,028 |
75 | Alien Anthology | 272,173 | $11,502,493 |
76 | Contagion | 271,763 | $5,735,906 |
77 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 266,754 | $4,273,445 |
78 | We Bought a Zoo | 265,771 | $6,723,934 |
79 | The Hangover Part II | 265,702 | $4,033,697 |
80 | Pulp Fiction | 264,921 | $1,613,345 |
81 | Star Wars: The Original Trilogy | 255,102 | $17,074,211 |
82 | The Walking Dead: Season 2 | 253,750 | $12,518,229 |
83 | Red Tails | 249,258 | $5,997,494 |
84 | ET: The Extra-Terrestrial | 247,169 | $4,853,521 |
85 | The Lucky One | 243,420 | $3,845,616 |
86 | Cowboys and Aliens | 238,920 | $4,979,497 |
87 | The Polar Express | 238,905 | $4,773,563 |
88 | Monsters, Inc. | 236,446 | $7,090,994 |
89 | Happy Feet Two | 235,947 | $5,784,196 |
90 | Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy | 230,683 | $7,575,363 |
91 | Tower Heist | 225,896 | $4,899,681 |
92 | ParaNorman | 223,410 | $5,523,512 |
93 | Sherlock Holmes | 221,022 | $3,234,412 |
94 | The Descendants | 220,677 | $4,505,486 |
95 | Elf | 220,211 | $2,118,697 |
96 | Mirror Mirror | 215,911 | $4,914,182 |
97 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | 215,848 | $4,702,453 |
98 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | 213,808 | $4,939,859 |
99 | The Expendables | 213,306 | $1,914,158 |
100 | Tangled | 212,537 | $5,766,083 |
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.