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United States Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending January 29, 2012

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Real Steel 401,885   401,885  $11,248,761  $11,248,761 1
2 (-) Paranormal Activity 3 101,396   101,396  $2,026,898  $2,026,898 3
3 new 50/50 66,994   66,994  $1,205,226  $1,205,226 1
4 (2) Moneyball 40,631 -51% 279,074  $898,498  $5,739,421 3
- (-) Ultimate Matrix Collection, The 24,474 +570% 138,410  $1,066,814  $5,635,437 373
5 (6) The Lion King 24,033 -21% 2,404,630  $623,857  $64,599,036 883
6 (1) The Ides of March 22,385 -75% 111,237  $447,476  $2,058,363 2
7 (4) Courageous 20,335 -63% 75,565  $408,945  $1,513,001 2
8 (8) Beauty and the Beast 16,236 -42% 2,827,057  $449,230  $67,601,726 486
9 (-) Captain America: The First Avenger 15,834 +102% 1,413,087  $376,515  $35,837,514 14
10 (5) Killer Elite 15,473 -63% 137,593  $371,496  $3,015,605 3
11 (3) Abduction 15,191 -76% 78,658  $300,483  $1,569,188 2
12 (7) Contagion 14,187 -52% 204,534  $327,891  $4,662,305 4
13 (11) Cowboys and Aliens 14,146 -28% 943,911  $254,961  $21,327,378 8
14 (-) Thor 13,061 +321% 1,135,737  $307,167  $28,935,501 20
15 (12) Kung Fu Panda 2 12,981 -29% 773,087  $288,278  $18,397,256 7
16 (10) Rise of the Planet of the Apes 12,137 -47% 1,338,582  $255,604  $29,976,085 7
17 (-) Transformers Trilogy 11,936   11,936  $477,320  $477,320 7
18 (17) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 11,494 -25% 2,047,866  $259,716  $54,185,785 15
19 (13) Dolphin Tale 10,971 -38% 431,660  $268,464  $10,831,271 6

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.