Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending February 21, 2010

by Fred
Posted February 25th, 2010 at 11:58 am

Law Abiding Citizen topped all DVD sales last week, knocking Couples Retreat from the top spot after one week. Although the film received mixed reviews from critics, that didn’t stop people from buying the film that stars Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. Couples Retreat did keep it’s spot as the most rented DVD last week though. Below is the list of DVD sales and rentals for the week ending February 21, 2010:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs:
1 Law Abiding Citizen (Anchor Bay)
2 Couples Retreat (Universal)
3 The Time Traveler’s Wife (New Line)
4 Halo Legends (Warner Bros.)
5 Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Sony)
6 The Hangover (Warner Bros.)
7 Zombieland (Sony)
8 The Stepfather (Sony)
9 Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate)
10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Sony)

Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs:
1 Couples Retreat (Universal)
2 Law Abiding Citizen (Overture Films)
3 The Time Traveler’s Wife (New Line)
4 Zombieland (Sony)
5 The Stepfather (Sony)
6 Love Happens (Universal)
7 Surrogates (Touchstone)
8 The Hangover (Warner Bros.)
9 The Invention Of Lying (Warner Bros.)
10 Gamer (Lionsgate)

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http://twitter.com/GMBBrian Brian Mann

Does this include Blu-Rays or are these just DVD's?
http://twitter.com/fredv21 Fred V

This is from Rentrak's site:

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

Sounds like it includes Blu-ray as well.
http://twitter.com/GMBBrian Brian Mann

Does this include Blu-Rays or are these just DVD's?
http://twitter.com/fredv21 Fred V

This is from Rentrak's site:

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

Sounds like it includes Blu-ray as well.