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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending March 18, 2012

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Week		%
Change		Total
Units		Spending
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Week		Total
Spending		Weeks
1 new Happy Feet Two 723,367   723,367  $10,843,271  $10,843,271 1
2 new The Descendants 528,854   528,854  $7,927,521  $7,927,521 1
3 new The Adventures of Tintin 407,328   407,328  $6,309,511  $6,309,511 1
4 (6) Puss in Boots 180,842 -40% 2,113,975  $3,511,952  $35,366,205 4
5 (1) Immortals 179,106 -66% 700,050  $3,025,100  $11,948,871 2
6 new My Week with Marilyn 167,243   167,243  $2,506,973  $2,506,973 1
7 (2) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 146,048 -65% 569,262  $1,970,188  $7,044,524 2
8 (3) Game of Thrones: Season 1 145,050 -61% 519,192  $4,930,250  $17,647,337 49
9 new The Three Musketeers 132,810   132,810  $2,190,037  $2,190,037 1
10 (7) The Bodyguard 121,960 -45% 744,458  $598,824  $4,315,137 956
11 (4) Footloose 109,228 -71% 479,619  $1,965,012  $8,098,687 2
12 (5) Jack and Jill 102,863 -69% 431,474  $1,953,368  $8,193,691 2
13 (9) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 95,340 -28% 4,711,013  $1,838,155  $85,934,341 6
14 (8) Hugo 88,685 -46% 756,018  $1,610,520  $12,843,178 3
15 new Young Adult 79,209   79,209  $1,424,970  $1,424,970 1
16 (12) The Help 62,571 -20% 4,618,864  $1,138,792  $77,970,363 15
17 (15) Downton Abbey: Series 2 58,000 -8% 619,987  $1,234,240  $12,338,326 11
18 (10) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 52,950 -49% 156,722  $1,058,470  $3,029,100 699
19 (11) Tooth Fairy 2 49,082 -52% 152,177  $672,423  $2,011,627 2
20 (20) J. Edgar 48,549 n/c 491,528  $727,750  $7,368,006 4
21 (13) Tower Heist 45,500 -39% 661,761  $909,545  $11,937,738 4
22 (14) The Lorax 34,042 -54% 243,770  $488,503  $3,212,869 5
23 (19) Downton Abbey: Series 1 33,274 -34% 225,465  $565,325  $3,830,650 63
24 new Melancholia 32,190   32,190  $466,433  $466,433 1
25 (21) Justice League: Doom 29,875 -9% 162,417  $425,008  $2,238,809 3
26 (22) Real Steel 23,940 -24% 1,301,243  $417,992  $22,606,441 8
27 (24) Weeds: Season Seven 17,102 -31% 211,346  $315,019  $4,010,858 4
28 (23) The Lion King 16,552 -33% 1,602,470  $341,201  $29,451,111 890
29 (25) Drive 15,695 -31% 475,672  $263,990  $7,364,916 7
30 (-) The Hangover Part II 15,469 +14% 3,431,770  $111,686  $43,374,285 15

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.