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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending April 22, 2012

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol 619,179   619,179  $9,591,083  $9,591,083 1
2 (1) War Horse 205,320 -18% 1,041,218  $4,104,347  $18,841,368 3
3 (3) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 141,235 -26% 1,964,823  $2,535,168  $32,586,006 4
4 (4) We Bought a Zoo 119,625 -36% 850,971  $2,100,615  $14,713,848 3
5 (2) The Iron Lady 85,694 -63% 319,168  $1,284,553  $4,784,328 2
6 (9) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 80,865 +25% 893,814  $1,611,639  $15,780,959 5
7 (5) The Darkest Hour 66,686 -52% 205,690  $999,623  $3,083,293 2
8 new Frozen Planet 60,494   60,494  $1,693,227  $1,693,227 1
9 new Born to be Wild 49,844   49,844  $759,623  $759,623 1
10 (8) The Muppets 48,606 -33% 1,453,519  $973,909  $24,460,225 5
11 (6) Hop 46,191 -49% 2,196,207  $913,658  $36,381,399 5
12 (-) Beauty and the Beast 45,943 +2,500% 2,309,031  $812,768  $39,807,216 498
13 (10) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 45,572 -23% 411,745  $683,124  $6,172,056 4
14 (-) Tangled 45,138 +1,738% 6,568,546  $586,343  $100,955,773 56
15 (16) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 40,320 +11% 4,948,912  $723,744  $90,300,567 11
16 (7) One Tree Hill: The Complete Ninth and Final Season 35,974 -59% 124,768  $893,954  $3,112,916 2
17 (12) Game of Thrones: Season 1 34,996 -15% 736,019  $1,174,116  $25,001,889 54
18 (11) Puss in Boots 34,374 -18% 2,564,360  $617,013  $42,278,757 9
19 (25) Hugo 34,364 +48% 964,129  $445,014  $15,821,034 8
20 (15) Happy Feet Two 32,643 -16% 1,165,978  $504,334  $17,668,575 6
21 (19) The Adventures of Tintin 32,305 -7% 810,346  $569,214  $12,891,794 6
22 (20) The Sitter 30,632 -10% 320,938  $577,413  $5,676,325 5
23 (18) The Descendants 30,288 -14% 873,468  $485,214  $13,367,037 6
24 (17) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 29,126 -20% 891,630  $436,599  $11,110,558 7
25 (21) Immortals 26,067 -10% 925,050  $501,790  $16,157,896 7
26 (22) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 21,150 -20% 242,607  $435,064  $4,786,844 704
27 (-) Captain America: The First Avenger 20,557 +352% 1,666,412  $352,141  $29,070,540 26
28 (-) Thor 19,999 +310% 1,251,658  $341,783  $21,409,280 32
29 (13) Downton Abbey: Series 2 18,344 -55% 765,711  $366,697  $15,184,847 16
30 (14) Downton Abbey: Series 1 17,027 -58% 369,127  $289,289  $6,294,795 68

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.