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 December 7, 2008

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 2,502,839   2,502,839  $39,552,365  $39,552,365 1
2 new Wanted 1,924,161   1,924,161  $32,626,651  $32,626,651 1
3 new Step Brothers 1,316,053   1,316,053  $23,043,167  $23,043,167 1
4 (1) Hancock 783,980 -69% 3,324,125  $13,822,038  $57,299,922 2
5 (2) WALL-E 604,562 -69% 5,794,404  $9,262,494  $91,938,007 3
6 (3) Kung Fu Panda 498,623 -65% 6,025,943  $7,001,066  $92,667,124 5
7 new The X-Files: I Want to Believe 290,439   290,439  $6,103,169  $6,103,169 1
8 (8) Iron Man 285,035 -40% 7,495,557  $4,256,114  $136,399,775 10
9 (5) Tropic Thunder 258,535 -63% 1,830,679  $4,160,345  $31,695,929 3
10 (4) Fred Claus 256,335 -71% 1,128,725  $4,355,132  $19,552,166 2
11 (12) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 205,827 -35% 4,674,335  $3,125,833  $92,692,506 8
12 (14) Hellboy 2: The Golden Army 178,224 -37% 1,822,600  $3,428,174  $33,449,279 4
13 (-) The Original Television Christmas Classics 177,894 +37% 3,358,257  $4,282,994  $89,553,605 221
14 (28) Star Wars: The Clone Wars 172,937 -11% 926,082  $2,657,091  $16,415,897 4
15 (11) Tinker Bell 163,807 -50% 2,847,908  $2,537,370  $44,439,777 6
16 (-) A Christmas Story 160,622 +661% 994,670  $1,646,054  $14,407,529 428
17 (29) Space Chimps 152,752 -10% 322,095  $3,053,512  $6,438,679 2
18 new The Longshots 143,019   143,019  $2,858,950  $2,858,950 1
19 (18) Get Smart 140,269 -40% 1,511,178  $2,249,073  $25,758,185 5
20 (-) The Nightmare Before Christmas 129,268 +376% 1,172,569  $2,809,743  $26,796,139 575
21 (-) Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special 128,442 +16% 385,037  $1,154,694  $3,524,205 3
22 (20) Shrek the Halls 121,008 -45% 1,066,824  $1,312,937  $12,653,271 5
23 (6) The Incredible Hulk 118,266 -78% 3,001,415  $1,771,589  $51,221,576 7
24 (23) Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 115,516 -46% 552,968  $1,628,649  $8,678,779 3
25 (7) Sex and the City - The Movie 115,384 -79% 3,090,478  $1,955,286  $63,808,016 11
26 (-) The Polar Express 113,590 +203% 3,955,209  $1,259,918  $50,792,045 154
27 (-) Elf 102,039 +445% 1,637,116  $1,040,798  $20,419,453 212
28 (25) Transformers 80,036 -61% 14,662,599  $1,415,485  $273,799,260 60
29 (30) This Christmas 64,702 -59% 687,932  $1,131,638  $12,959,430 4
30 (10) I am Legend 62,907 -84% 6,964,990  $518,844  $125,173,133 38

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.