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Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 5, 2009
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According to the company's proprietary tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*
RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE 1 12 Rounds FOX 1 2 Princess Protection Program Disney 1 3 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail Lionsgate 3 4 Gran Torino Warner 4 5 Confessions of a Shopaholic Touchstone 2 6 Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience Disney 1 7 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Fox 1 8 Inkheart New Line 2 9 Entourage - The Complete Fifth Season HBO 1 10 Stargate: Atlantis - Season 5 MGM 1 *Week ended July 4, 2009Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE 1 12 Rounds FOX 1 2 Gran Torino Warner 4 3 Confessions Of A Shopaholic Touchstone 2 4 The Code First Look 2 5 Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li FOX 1 6 Taken FOX 8 7 The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Paramount 9 8 Inkheart New Line 2 9 Paul Blart: Mall Cop Sony 7 10 Defiance Paramount 5About Retail Essentials(R)
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.
About Home Video Essentials(R)
Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brickandmortar, online, and kiosk channels across
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