2011's top-selling Blu-Ray releases so far

After viewing the weekly Blu-Ray Sales Chart here at TBOJ, a lot of people ask me if I have total Blu-Ray sales figures available for various releases, and my answer is always the same: Unfortunately, no. I don't have time to keep track of total sales.

I had a little extra time today, though, and because I love you all so much, I decided to do some major number crunching for the top-selling Blu-Ray releases of recent history—namely, Inception, Despicable Me, The Town, The A-Team, The Social Network, Salt, Red, The Other Guys, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Secretariat, and Machete—and calculate the total Blu-Ray sales for each film. It's pretty interesting stuff, so if you want to see the total sales and week-by-week breakdown for those movies, go ahead and click inside.

Keep in mind: These are ESTIMATES. I put together TBOJ's Blu-Ray sales estimates each and every week, and while they are bound to be off by a few thousand copies, they are as accurate as you're going to find on all the internet. So don't whine.

Inception – 5,299,369 total Blu-Ray units (4,513,979 DVDs)
Week 1: 2,670,000 copies
Week 2: 775,000
Week 3: 495,000
Week 4: 475,000
Week 5: 257,858
Week 6: 182,802
Week 7: 79,100
Week 8: 43,584
Week 9: 35,882
Week 10: 41,180
Week 11: 134,496
Week 12: 54,834
Week 13: 54,633

Despicable Me – 2,840,275 total Blu-Ray units (7,084,935 DVDs)
Week 1: 1,531,307 copies
Week 2: 424,611
Week 3: 268,470
Week 4: 214,605
Week 5: 139,832
Week 6: 75,275
Week 7: 38,208
Week 8: 34,076
Week 9: 37,120
Week 10: 32,224
Week 11: 24,662
Week 12: 19,885

The Town – 1,444,901 total Blu-Ray units (2,002,499 DVDs)
Week 1: 275,000 copies
Week 2: 304,128
Week 3: 302,670
Week 4: 162,213
Week 5: 163,416
Week 6: 50,750
Week 7: 25,728
Week 8: 18,214
Week 9: 18,580
Week 10: 71,232
Week 11: 35,340
Week 12: 17,630

The A-Team – 1,369,608 total Blu-Ray units (1,654,582 DVDs as of Feb 20)
Week 1: 450,000 copies
Week 2: 136,076
Week 3: 448,068
Week 4: 134,900
Week 5: 159,192
Week 6: 41,372
(Falls out of Top 20 after this point)

The Social Network – 1,336,111 total Blu-Ray units (1,540,758 DVDs)
Week 1: 880,000 copies
Week 2: 211,975
Week 3: 69,760
Week 4: 45,542
Week 5: 30,920
Week 6: 40,800
Week 7: 33,744
Week 8: 23,370

Salt – 1,109,329 total Blu-Ray units (1,846,923 DVDs)
Week 1: 370,000 copies
Week 2: 250,468
Week 3: 165,538
Week 4: 95,920
Week 5: 91,525
Week 6: 25,408
Week 7: 17,402
Week 8: 15,000 (approx.)
Week 9: 47,136
Week 10: 30,932
(Falls out of Top 20 after this point)

The Other Guys – 1,073,271 total Blu-Ray units (1,872,629 DVDs as of Feb 20)
Week 1: 384,504 copies
Week 2: 130,977
Week 3: 239,400
Week 4: 81,368
Week 5: 193,072
Week 6: 43,950
(Falls out of Top 20 after this point)

Resident Evil: Afterlife – 999,252 total Blu-Ray units (1,001,272 DVDs as of Feb 13)
Week 1: 468,968 copies
Week 2: 264,623
Week 3: 99,880
Week 4: 67,175
Week 5: 19,712
Week 6: 15,652
Week 7: 10,000 (approx.)
Week 8: 27,136
Week 9: 26,106
(Falls out of Top 20 after this point)

Red – 966,243 total Blu-Ray units (2,080,447 DVDs)
Week 1: 640,000 copies
Week 2: 140,000
Week 3: 80,730
Week 4: 48,320
Week 5: 36,590
Week 6: 20,603

Machete – 664,429 total Blu-Ray units (784,158 DVDs as of Feb 6)
Week 1: 475,000 copies
Week 2: 148,104
Week 3: 41,325
(Falls out of Top 20 after this point)

Secretariat – 481,581 total Blu-Ray units (1,729,648 DVDs)
Week 1: 258,624 copies
Week 2: 73,892
Week 3: 47,140
Week 4: 54,144
Week 5: 31,996
Week 6: 15,785