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 October 19, 2008

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2,521,968   2,521,968  $55,068,937  $55,068,937 1
2 (2) Iron Man 449,422 -59% 5,804,126  $8,246,759  $109,163,957 3
3 (1) Sleeping Beauty 332,614 -71% 1,493,671  $4,985,884  $22,390,128 267
4 (4) You Don't Mess with the Zohan 196,285 -55% 629,127  $4,000,269  $12,914,780 2
5 (3) The Happening 177,965 -69% 744,793  $3,557,520  $14,888,412 2
6 new Indiana Jones - The Complete Adventures Collection 138,946   138,946  $8,514,611  $8,514,611 1
7 (5) Sex and the City - The Movie 125,166 -44% 2,114,885  $2,655,146  $46,284,955 4
8 (6) Forgetting Sarah Marshall 93,027 -55% 949,489  $1,821,757  $18,744,232 3
9 (7) The Simpsons: Season 11 56,387 -58% 192,115  $1,691,046  $5,761,529 474
10 (8) The Nightmare Before Christmas 55,436 -12% 740,061  $1,186,103  $17,420,699 568
11 new Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie 40,685   40,685  $894,663  $894,663 1
12 new CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Eighth Season 39,971   39,971  $2,357,889  $2,357,889 1
13 (27) Transformers 36,878 +38% 14,296,642  $545,400  $268,970,892 53
14 (-) Peanuts Holiday Collection 35,212   35,212  $1,196,856  $1,196,856 423
15 (-) I am Legend 34,641 +122% 6,447,197  $626,676  $120,623,559 31
16 (11) Speed Racer 31,881 -32% 701,319  $522,498  $11,309,616 5
17 (10) The Office: Season 4 31,406 -38% 853,188  $973,272  $26,434,590 56
18 new Mongol 30,930   30,930  $618,291  $618,291 1
19 (-) P.S., I Love You 29,978 +579% 1,493,974  $449,370  $24,267,487 24
20 (9) Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead 29,502 -53% 91,851  $707,753  $2,200,388 2
21 (-) High School Musical 2 29,026 +782% 5,520,214  $580,230  $87,366,226 45
22 new Unit, The - The Complete Third Season 28,789   28,789  $805,804  $805,804 1
23 (-) Mr. Brooks 28,747 +130% 1,645,028  $287,183  $28,583,845 52
24 (18) Little Mermaid - Ariel's Beginning, The 28,662 -23% 1,714,651  $497,286  $30,279,258 8
25 (-) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 28,551 +43% 973,766  $379,157  $15,960,846 23
26 (15) Baby Mama 27,837 -28% 929,900  $500,788  $16,728,901 6
27 (13) The Forbidden Kingdom 26,885 -37% 970,713  $460,701  $19,516,143 6
28 new War, Inc. 26,171   26,171  $373,722  $373,722 1
29 (17) Leatherheads 25,933 -31% 324,879  $499,638  $6,191,573 4
30 (16) 88 Minutes 25,220 -34% 433,135  $478,928  $8,603,084 5

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.