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United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending May 20, 2012

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RankTitleUnits
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1 The Grey 522,349 522,349  $9,665,152  $9,665,152 1
2 Chronicle 399,911 399,911  $7,389,602  $7,389,602 1
3 The Vow 301,559 1,180,749  $5,624,416  $21,356,726 2
4 One For the Money 294,240 294,240  $4,660,893  $4,660,893 1
5 Underworld: Awakening 224,767 926,026  $4,167,401  $17,340,373 2
6 Rampart 92,439 92,439  $1,029,550  $1,029,550 1
7 Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol 90,214 1,944,386  $1,492,634  $33,509,253 5
8 The Devil Inside 90,015 90,015  $1,458,026  $1,458,026 1
9 Thor 80,327 2,780,153  $1,453,486  $57,293,624 36
10 Joyful Noise 74,221 652,287  $1,179,993  $10,167,118 3
11 Contraband 69,381 1,027,592  $1,482,643  $19,550,289 4
12 Captain America: The First Avenger 68,070 3,469,316  $1,279,797  $72,625,445 30
13 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 59,943 2,668,054  $1,027,374  $47,284,320 8
14 We Bought a Zoo 53,904 1,340,389  $999,620  $24,738,281 7
15 Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season 48,569 48,569  $930,140  $930,140 1
16 New Year’s Eve 46,136 550,991  $752,216  $8,604,803 3
17 Iron Man 2 44,896 7,847,824  $525,409  $172,347,196 86
18 The Lion King 43,005 4,462,762  $859,162  $103,447,049 899
19 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 42,585 6,409,429  $599,761  $122,560,997 15
20 Haywire 40,789 385,792  $670,193  $6,278,578 3

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.