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With the holiday season in full swing, Big Machine’s Taylor Swift climbed back on top of the HITS Album sales chart, with 255k in sales, up 27% over last week, bringing her total to more than 2.6 million.
That was enough to topple Columbia’s Susan Boyle from #1 down to #2, with 251k for a total of 1.65 million, giving Steve Barnett’s team four of the Top 10, with Rob Stringer’s Sony Music nabbing five overall, with a sixth on RCA/Jive Label Group.
Epic’s posthumous Michael Jackson album, Michael, debuts at #3, with 225k, followed by two more
Jive/JLG’s R. Kelly album, Love Letter, is the other Top 10 newcomer, bowing at #6, along with Bad Boy/ Interscope’s Diddy Dirty Money release, Last Train to
YM/Cash Money/Universal Motown’s Nicki Minaj (#7), Atlantic’s Kid Rock (#8) and Columbia’s Glee: The Music Vol. 4 (#9) round out the sales leaders.
Other chart entries are registered by 19/Jive/JLG American Idol alum Crystal Bowersox’s Farmer’s Daughter (#31), Atlantic R&B star Tank (#38) and Jive/JLG’s Ciara (#43), while Columbia Nashville’s CMA award-winning and Grammy-nominated Miranda Lambert (#46) and Decca’s Elton John & Leon Russell (#50) both re-enter.
The week’s biggest double-digit gainers include Interscope’s Black Eyed Peas (#19-11, +48%); LaFace/JLG’s P!nk (#38-33, +44%); Shady/Aftermath/ Interscope’s Eminem, coming off an SNL appearance (#24-19, +42%); Island/IDJ’s Justin Bieber My World. 2.0 (#21-16, +39%); Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum Merry Little Christmas (#47-44, +36%), Capitol/EMI’s Now 36 (#25-21, +35%) and Hollywood’s Selena Gomez & the Scene (#33,-32, +35%).
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THE MUSIC OF CLIVE COMES ALIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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JAMES KING: THE HITS INTERVIEW (PART ONE)
