See also: Top-selling DVDs for 2012 - Top-Selling Blu-rays for 2012
Top-Selling Video Titles in the United States 2012
Rank | Title | Units Sold | Total Consumer Spending |
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1 | The Hunger Games | 10,254,093 | $180,387,249 |
2 | The Avengers | 9,374,003 | $202,709,760 |
3 | Brave | 8,010,301 | $147,868,820 |
4 | The Dark Knight Rises | 7,643,821 | $127,340,017 |
5 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | 7,153,272 | $134,722,415 |
6 | Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | 6,356,261 | $106,985,523 |
7 | Ted | 5,314,770 | $101,559,833 |
8 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 5,156,777 | $76,189,215 |
9 | Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted | 3,962,006 | $69,842,205 |
10 | Puss in Boots | 3,706,074 | $67,332,607 |
11 | The Amazing Spider-Man | 3,076,493 | $59,396,251 |
12 | Secret of the Wings | 3,061,106 | $61,280,432 |
13 | Hop | 3,021,760 | $51,219,678 |
14 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 2,960,639 | $51,109,932 |
15 | Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 2,800,652 | $44,689,945 |
16 | Snow White and the Huntsman | 2,545,661 | $46,197,582 |
17 | The Muppets | 2,523,792 | $51,158,350 |
18 | Magic Mike | 2,455,785 | $34,984,660 |
19 | 21 Jump Street | 2,430,593 | $41,966,672 |
20 | The Help | 2,250,364 | $39,750,372 |
21 | Cinderella | 2,241,837 | $68,308,988 |
22 | Act of Valor | 2,227,590 | $40,920,177 |
23 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 2,213,695 | $40,355,762 |
24 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2,206,322 | $36,071,598 |
25 | Men in Black 3 | 2,176,275 | $41,717,415 |
26 | Real Steel | 2,163,525 | $44,135,764 |
27 | Prometheus | 2,119,611 | $40,077,394 |
28 | Wrath of the Titans | 2,009,950 | $34,810,018 |
29 | The Bourne Legacy | 1,961,819 | $40,251,659 |
30 | Safe House | 1,954,011 | $35,296,742 |
31 | War Horse | 1,881,171 | $37,970,552 |
32 | Pitch Perfect | 1,873,082 | $36,436,525 |
33 | The Dark Knight | 1,779,658 | $14,638,626 |
34 | The Lucky One | 1,775,882 | $22,350,470 |
35 | John Carter | 1,762,266 | $34,990,630 |
36 | Hugo | 1,744,093 | $33,200,973 |
37 | We Bought a Zoo | 1,743,669 | $30,281,790 |
38 | The Vow | 1,733,151 | $30,309,190 |
39 | Journey 2 Mysterious Island | 1,694,660 | $28,499,196 |
40 | Immortals | 1,686,379 | $33,683,643 |
41 | The Expendables 2 | 1,681,399 | $28,511,381 |
42 | Moneyball | 1,674,301 | $29,612,217 |
43 | Game of Thrones: Season 1 | 1,600,763 | $63,770,744 |
44 | Batman Begins | 1,597,913 | $11,780,028 |
45 | Mirror Mirror | 1,579,275 | $28,350,958 |
46 | Lady and the Tramp | 1,577,507 | $43,355,302 |
47 | The Lion King | 1,561,108 | $32,859,700 |
48 | Happy Feet Two | 1,557,198 | $25,589,225 |
49 | The Adventures of Tintin | 1,515,453 | $27,791,049 |
50 | Project X | 1,478,194 | $22,129,664 |
51 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II | 1,462,540 | $20,074,098 |
52 | Battleship | 1,450,495 | $28,006,653 |
53 | The Dark Knight Trilogy | 1,411,215 | $42,908,216 |
54 | Underworld: Awakening | 1,402,038 | $25,570,454 |
55 | Dark Shadows | 1,400,407 | $22,072,095 |
56 | Bridesmaids | 1,368,928 | $17,928,068 |
57 | The Big Bang Theory: Season 5 | 1,367,680 | $36,780,114 |
58 | American Reunion | 1,340,710 | $24,360,157 |
59 | Elf | 1,335,284 | $11,375,886 |
60 | Captain America: The First Avenger | 1,331,276 | $27,172,071 |
61 | Contraband | 1,278,362 | $23,796,732 |
62 | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | 1,273,796 | $12,449,165 |
63 | The Hangover Part II | 1,272,116 | $13,914,197 |
64 | Despicable Me | 1,268,468 | $14,613,053 |
65 | The Campaign | 1,254,673 | $18,970,774 |
66 | Thor | 1,242,319 | $20,007,126 |
67 | The Descendants | 1,226,736 | $19,936,709 |
68 | Dolphin Tale | 1,214,444 | $18,957,068 |
69 | Red Tails | 1,193,455 | $20,581,153 |
70 | The Three Stooges | 1,191,034 | $23,387,914 |
71 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 1,163,267 | $19,107,927 |
72 | True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season | 1,162,681 | $38,836,965 |
73 | Barbie: The Princess and The Popstar | 1,152,632 | $15,788,251 |
74 | Courageous | 1,122,421 | $19,167,648 |
75 | Contagion | 1,116,523 | $18,224,830 |
76 | Downton Abbey: Series 2 | 1,110,126 | $23,043,178 |
77 | The Grey | 1,101,367 | $19,701,976 |
78 | Beauty and the Beast | 1,097,560 | $24,998,641 |
79 | Treasure Buddies | 1,088,496 | $19,618,227 |
80 | Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 | 1,074,218 | $13,543,372 |
81 | The Bodyguard | 1,063,985 | $6,304,833 |
82 | Tower Heist | 1,046,069 | $19,237,018 |
83 | Hatfields and McCoys | 1,043,722 | $21,244,185 |
84 | Drive | 1,043,620 | $17,753,227 |
85 | Tangled | 1,030,433 | $18,363,194 |
86 | The Polar Express | 1,026,191 | $11,596,384 |
87 | Finding Nemo | 997,034 | $29,086,818 |
88 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | 966,627 | $10,744,637 |
89 | Footloose | 960,276 | $16,597,483 |
90 | Think Like a Man | 952,230 | $16,588,280 |
91 | A Christmas Story | 941,942 | $9,364,433 |
92 | This Means War | 915,176 | $14,612,113 |
93 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | 901,973 | $16,155,458 |
94 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | 890,705 | $16,636,610 |
95 | Joyful Noise | 890,578 | $13,238,528 |
96 | Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter | 884,658 | $15,213,381 |
97 | ParaNorman | 880,870 | $17,568,280 |
98 | In Time | 859,963 | $15,039,161 |
99 | The Walking Dead: Season 2 | 852,327 | $29,233,275 |
100 | Rock of Ages | 849,203 | $12,932,348 |
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.