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United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending October 21, 2012

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RankTitleUnits
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Total
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Spending
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Total
Spending
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1 Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted 1,443,004 1,443,004  $26,722,900  $26,722,900 1
2 Prometheus 333,045 1,252,556  $6,729,716  $24,946,773 2
3 The Avengers 331,784 7,176,126  $7,426,915  $155,472,706 4
4 2016: Obama’s America 300,553 300,553  $3,020,558  $3,020,558 1
5 Moonrise Kingdom 157,299 157,299  $2,890,106  $2,890,106 1
6 That’s My Boy 142,678 142,678  $2,584,058  $2,584,058 1
7 Dark Shadows 126,107 957,039  $2,080,202  $16,429,456 3
8 Chernobyl Diaries 122,280 122,280  $2,037,019  $2,037,019 1
9 Rock of Ages 117,659 485,259  $1,945,936  $8,267,252 2
10 Mad Men: Season Five 115,687 115,687  $3,698,271  $3,698,271 1
11 Hocus Pocus 112,831 959,034  $814,810  $7,123,025 542
12 Avatar 108,205 16,923,146  $2,867,495  $387,873,934 131
13 Monster High Ghouls Rule 105,500 265,573  $1,543,465  $3,685,242 2
14 Cinderella 92,659 1,037,081  $2,464,462  $25,981,630 368
15 Madagascar: The Complete Collection 88,231 88,231  $4,383,316  $4,383,316 1
16 Psych: Season Six 68,792 68,792  $2,224,045  $2,224,045 1
17 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial 62,534 281,284  $1,087,927  $4,983,242 1,252
18 The Hunger Games 61,970 8,297,106  $1,210,154  $151,981,231 10
19 Snow White and the Huntsman 60,270 1,956,941  $1,060,453  $38,166,160 6
20 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 52,319 4,379,794  $833,143  $86,449,165 11

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.