See also: Top-selling Blu-rays for 2012 - Combined Top-Selling Videos for 2012
Top-Selling DVDs in the United States 2012
| Rank | Title | Units Sold | Total Consumer Spending |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hunger Games | 7,434,058 | $123,736,419 |
| 2 | Brave | 5,892,322 | $99,646,500 |
| 3 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | 5,759,872 | $103,644,863 |
| 4 | Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | 5,078,621 | $76,547,775 |
| 5 | The Avengers | 4,761,539 | $88,640,643 |
| 6 | The Dark Knight Rises | 4,414,531 | $54,548,655 |
| 7 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 3,690,720 | $46,476,426 |
| 8 | Ted | 3,423,343 | $59,643,566 |
| 9 | Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted | 3,023,440 | $49,393,562 |
| 10 | Puss in Boots | 2,831,265 | $46,292,327 |
| 11 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 2,534,893 | $40,884,577 |
| 12 | Secret of the Wings | 2,371,290 | $43,648,936 |
| 13 | Hop | 2,326,123 | $38,242,910 |
| 14 | Magic Mike | 2,133,928 | $27,893,940 |
| 15 | 21 Jump Street | 1,999,300 | $33,684,810 |
| 16 | The Help | 1,957,583 | $31,755,547 |
| 17 | The Amazing Spider-Man | 1,828,251 | $31,851,414 |
| 18 | The Muppets | 1,735,219 | $29,748,109 |
| 19 | Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 1,689,007 | $23,950,382 |
| 20 | Snow White and the Huntsman | 1,673,475 | $28,330,177 |
| 21 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 1,563,816 | $23,423,774 |
| 22 | The Vow | 1,532,619 | $25,459,591 |
| 23 | The Lucky One | 1,532,462 | $18,504,854 |
| 24 | Act of Valor | 1,530,270 | $25,814,412 |
| 25 | Real Steel | 1,523,386 | $25,949,607 |
| 26 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 1,494,659 | $24,664,742 |
| 27 | We Bought a Zoo | 1,477,898 | $23,557,856 |
| 28 | Men in Black 3 | 1,468,196 | $24,581,395 |
| 29 | Safe House | 1,448,397 | $24,271,262 |
| 30 | War Horse | 1,443,985 | $26,571,013 |
| 31 | Pitch Perfect | 1,432,851 | $26,784,824 |
| 32 | Journey 2 Mysterious Island | 1,398,009 | $21,003,824 |
| 33 | Mirror Mirror | 1,363,364 | $23,436,776 |
| 34 | Happy Feet Two | 1,321,251 | $19,805,029 |
| 35 | Wrath of the Titans | 1,311,554 | $19,151,160 |
| 36 | The Big Bang Theory: Season 5 | 1,240,766 | $32,728,819 |
| 37 | Moneyball | 1,228,737 | $20,568,746 |
| 38 | Bridesmaids | 1,206,085 | $14,665,262 |
| 39 | John Carter | 1,202,192 | $20,906,292 |
| 40 | Project X | 1,173,923 | $16,446,987 |
| 41 | Barbie: The Princess and The Popstar | 1,152,632 | $15,788,251 |
| 42 | Hugo | 1,125,830 | $18,120,279 |
| 43 | Elf | 1,115,073 | $9,257,189 |
| 44 | The Lion King | 1,107,803 | $20,785,814 |
| 45 | The Expendables 2 | 1,089,162 | $16,754,915 |
| 46 | Immortals | 1,087,958 | $18,824,232 |
| 47 | The Dark Knight | 1,075,745 | $6,051,654 |
| 48 | Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 | 1,074,218 | $13,543,372 |
| 49 | The Three Stooges | 1,071,917 | $20,559,925 |
| 50 | Dolphin Tale | 1,064,014 | $15,195,963 |
| 51 | The Campaign | 1,061,063 | $14,438,320 |
| 52 | Game of Thrones: Season 1 | 1,059,977 | $36,408,202 |
| 53 | Dark Shadows | 1,057,453 | $14,688,097 |
| 54 | The Adventures of Tintin | 1,046,549 | $16,001,840 |
| 55 | The Bourne Legacy | 1,037,511 | $19,465,700 |
| 56 | American Reunion | 1,033,021 | $17,709,513 |
| 57 | The Bodyguard | 1,017,282 | $5,738,082 |
| 58 | Downton Abbey: Series 2 | 1,014,363 | $20,632,188 |
| 59 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II | 1,013,727 | $10,995,055 |
| 60 | The Hangover Part II | 1,006,414 | $9,880,500 |
| 61 | The Descendants | 1,006,059 | $15,431,223 |
| 62 | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | 997,862 | $9,295,137 |
| 63 | Courageous | 984,467 | $16,347,306 |
| 64 | Prometheus | 975,477 | $16,285,293 |
| 65 | Treasure Buddies | 971,591 | $16,661,321 |
| 66 | Batman Begins | 969,537 | $5,701,041 |
| 67 | True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season | 962,161 | $30,391,103 |
| 68 | Red Tails | 944,197 | $14,583,659 |
| 69 | Underworld: Awakening | 943,158 | $15,818,478 |
| 70 | Despicable Me | 931,910 | $8,910,992 |
| 71 | Contraband | 920,396 | $15,511,199 |
| 72 | Battleship | 896,989 | $15,557,901 |
| 73 | Hatfields and McCoys | 872,852 | $16,955,012 |
| 74 | A Christmas Story | 863,659 | $8,240,370 |
| 75 | Footloose | 849,146 | $13,886,038 |
| 76 | Contagion | 844,760 | $12,488,924 |
| 77 | Think Like a Man | 838,396 | $14,294,219 |
| 78 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | 837,254 | $8,160,388 |
| 79 | Tower Heist | 820,173 | $14,337,337 |
| 80 | Tangled | 817,896 | $12,597,111 |
| 81 | Joyful Noise | 811,276 | $11,616,311 |
| 82 | Captain America: The First Avenger | 800,603 | $13,154,756 |
| 83 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 790,033 | $12,633,448 |
| 84 | The Grey | 788,079 | $12,899,860 |
| 85 | The Polar Express | 787,286 | $6,822,821 |
| 86 | Cinderella | 770,135 | $34,742,898 |
| 87 | Thor | 743,655 | $10,609,686 |
| 88 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | 742,390 | $12,681,142 |
| 89 | This Means War | 736,322 | $11,032,852 |
| 90 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | 686,125 | $11,453,005 |
| 91 | Beauty and the Beast | 685,664 | $14,604,921 |
| 92 | Mary Poppins | 677,207 | $13,275,522 |
| 93 | Rock of Ages | 675,540 | $9,164,358 |
| 94 | The Dark Knight Trilogy | 674,974 | $17,522,325 |
| 95 | New Year’s Eve | 662,434 | $9,346,206 |
| 96 | ParaNorman | 657,460 | $12,044,768 |
| 97 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | 652,060 | $5,570,378 |
| 98 | Tyler Perry's Good Deeds | 644,437 | $10,754,875 |
| 99 | J. Edgar | 643,835 | $9,631,757 |
| 100 | Jack and Jill | 642,374 | $11,798,264 |
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.