See also: Weekly Blu-ray Sales Chart - Weekly DVD and Blu-ray Sales Combined Chart - DEG Watched at Home Top 20 - Netflix Daily Top 10

United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending May 3, 2009

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Bride Wars 846,192   846,192  $13,530,610  $13,530,610 1
2 new Hotel for Dogs 773,166   773,166  $13,584,527  $13,584,527 1
3 new The Uninvited 196,994   196,994  $3,543,922  $3,543,922 1
4 (1) Notorious 178,124 -62% 648,231  $3,738,823  $15,016,690 2
5 (3) Twilight 172,451 -35% 7,591,626  $3,102,393  $137,365,232 7
6 (5) Marley and Me 144,445 -12% 2,989,871  $2,230,187  $53,262,221 5
7 (6) Bedtime Stories 137,422 -13% 2,340,305  $2,366,201  $40,030,273 5
8 (2) The Wrestler 129,044 -54% 408,193  $2,192,458  $7,415,336 2
9 (8) Bolt 122,783 -17% 3,638,527  $2,227,787  $64,953,757 7
10 (7) The Day the Earth Stood Still 102,305 -35% 1,529,718  $1,580,152  $25,517,243 4
11 (9) Yes Man 92,489 -34% 1,091,279  $1,638,332  $19,017,081 4
12 (4) The Spirit 92,320 -48% 602,673  $2,051,378  $12,530,913 3
13 (13) Slumdog Millionaire 89,866 -10% 1,607,081  $1,359,673  $26,033,764 5
14 (14) Seven Pounds 84,619 -15% 1,071,477  $1,479,986  $18,100,017 5
15 new X-Men, Volume 1 81,742   81,742  $1,470,539  $1,470,539 1
16 (16) Quantum of Solace 79,457 -14% 2,088,550  $1,245,155  $37,053,390 6
17 (15) The Tale of Despereaux 79,288 -17% 1,082,033  $1,347,103  $18,383,741 4
18 (12) The Reader 78,696 -38% 439,061  $1,337,045  $8,235,246 3
19 new X-Men, Volume 2 76,665   76,665  $1,379,203  $1,379,203 1
20 (19) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 72,388 +7% 6,664,940  $946,603  $97,074,473 13
21 (18) Beverly Hills Chihuahua 68,457 -5% 3,134,264  $1,094,627  $53,598,734 9
22 (11) Caprica 65,918 -49% 196,138  $1,096,216  $3,623,786 2
23 (10) Frost/Nixon 61,687 -54% 196,373  $1,109,749  $3,659,355 2
24 (22) Not Easily Broken 59,586 +2% 453,753  $1,012,366  $8,355,558 4
25 (27) Australia 57,795 +43% 1,454,242  $883,108  $24,432,351 9
26 (17) Doubt 43,439 -40% 598,855  $781,468  $10,672,382 4
27 (26) Role Models 40,702 -9% 1,796,971  $621,927  $30,460,938 8
28 (29) Pinocchio 38,163 +3% 2,421,259  $648,389  $41,137,189 497
29 (21) Stuart Little 35,144 -42% 248,094  $263,229  $1,998,028 472
30 (30) High School Musical 3: Senior Year 33,133 +17% 3,124,216  $618,888  $55,960,725 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.