According to The Numbers, these are your top selling DVD's of 2009. I have only listed the top 10; you can see their full list of 50 by following the provided link.

1. Twilight (9,836,341 units) 3/21/2009
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (8,528,044 units) 10/20/2009
3. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (7,751,718 units) 2/6/2009
4. Up (6,614,216 units) 11/10/2009
5. Star Trek (4,787,654 units) 11/17/2009
6. Bolt (4,581,755 units) 3/22/2009
7. Monsters vs. Aliens (4,511,928 units) 9/29/2009
8. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (4,311,287 units) 10/27/2009
9. The Proposal (4,213,818 units) 10/13/2009
10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (4,139,785 units) 9/15/2009

Not a single catalog release in the top 50 =/

Madagascar 2 outsold Up. That's depressing.

Well it had a 9 month head start.

Normally, I respond to remarks like this by asking what stake the person making the remark has in such things. I think it's a carryover from one of my sports pet peeves (which is to hear fans refer to themselves as part of the team: "We won" is bad enough, but it lights me up to hear things like, "We're overpaying [insert name]."). This time, though, I'll simply point out that Up was released nine months after Madagascar 2 and was only 1,137,502 units shy of tying it. Not bad, really.

I totally agree with you about the "we" sports thing but I think it's a bit different with something like this. Pizza was probably a fan of the movie Up so it makes sense that he/she wants the movie to succeed and do well. I see nothing wrong with that. If I like a piece of art whatever it be, I want the creator of that art to be successful. Thus leading to more art from said artist.

I hate to veer too far off course, but I would observe that rooting for the success of an artist does not necessitate contrasting him/her/they with another artist. To wit: I might say, "I'm pleased that Pixar had such success with Up" (which I sincerely am). It's another step from that to expressing disappointment at something else selling more units.

What I meant to bring up in my original post (but didn't) was how interesting it is to me that so many of the top ten best-selling titles are clearly marketed at families with younger children--half of the top ten. Of the other five, three are geek-centric (Transformers, Trek and Wolverine), one is a chick flick (Proposal) and the best-seller is...what? A geeky-chick flick? Whatever Twilight's demographic name, I'm still curious at how this list doesn't strongly suggest a lot of single male purchasing. Or is it that there just weren't that many "guy" movies last year?

and this year, a single Criterion disc made it into the Top 50. That's 1 more than last year I believe.

I did my part, buying at least 8 of the top 10 (a few only for exclusives though).

Geez, I didn't buy a single top 10 title this year...and I know I picked up at least a couple hundred titles.

I own stock in Pixar.

Benjamin Button isn't a real Criterion release.

In the top 100 for that matter.

It's really none of my business anyway, but since that's the case...that's actually pretty sweet!