This Day in Music…November 23

Hits Daily Double, with 37.17% reporting:

1 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 74,077 BATTLE STUDIES
2 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJMG 55,022 MY WORLD
3 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 37,535 PLAY ON
4 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 35,181 THIS IS IT
5 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC SONY MUSIC 32,015 NOW 32
6 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 29,241 SOUNDTRACK
7 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 29,112 TIME OF OUR LIVES
8 ANDREA BOCELLI DECCA 26,968 MY CHRISTMAS
9 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 26,706 THE FALL
10 KRIS ALLEN 19/JIVE/ZLG 26,252 KRIS ALLEN
11 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 23,762 BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT
12 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 22,884 FEARLESS
13 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 20,409 LADY ANTEBELLUM
14 TIM MCGRAW CURB 19,476 SOUTHERN VOICE
15 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 18,081 ECHO
16 JANET JACKSON A&M 17,088 #1′S
17 BON JOVI ISLAND/IDJMG 17,038 THE CIRCLE
18 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 16,055 GOOD EVENING NEW YORK
19 THEM CROOKED VULTURES INTERSCOPE 16,022 THEM CROOKED VULTURES
20 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 15,263 FOUNDATION
21 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 13,856 CRAZY LOVE
22 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 12,958 WIDE OPEN
23 JOSH GROBAN REPRISE 11,863 NOEL
24 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 11,752 NUMBER ONES
25 GLEE CAST COLUMBIA 11,427 GLEE, VOL. 1
26 CASTING CROWNS PROVIDENT/REUNION 10,513 UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD HEARS
27 SUGARLAND MERCURY NASHVILLE 9,947 GOLD & GREEN
28 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 9,894 REVOLUTION
29 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ATLANTIC 9,661 BLUEPRINT 3
30 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 9,421 I AM… SASHA FIERCE
31 CREED WIND-UP 9,211 FULL CIRCLE
32 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 9,180 E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)
33 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 9,073 LEARN TO LIVE
34 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 8,676 FAME
35 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 8,654 OCEAN EYES
36 ONEREPUBLIC INTERSCOPE 6,799 WAKING UP
37 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 6,707 SOUNDTRACK
38 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 6,481 DARK HORSE
39 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 6,315 DOIN’ MY THING
40 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 5,898 ESSENTIAL
41 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 5,782 LET IT SNOW
42 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 5,728 DEAR AGONY
43 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 5,552 ONLY BY THE NIGHT
44 ROD STEWART J RECORDS/RMG 5,534 SOULBOOK
45 FOO FIGHTERS ROSWELL/RCA/RMG 5,355 GREATEST HITS
46 BEBE & CECE WINANS MALACO 5,270 STILL
47 BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE/JLG 4,888 SINGLES COLLECTION
48 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 4,836 TAYLOR SWIFT
49 FLYLEAF A&M/OCTONE 4,490 MEMENTO MORI
50 KEITH URBAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 4,256 DEFYING GRAVITY

As expected, the release of new albums — including Kris Allen’s debut — provided enough pressure at the top of the chart to push the bald mutant’s putrid sophomoric effort out of the Top 50 even at this early stage of reporting.

Taylor Swift should be given honorary membership to The Attic, for her services – preventing certain individuals (especially lowcase ones) from receiving awards.

And they don’t come any lower than fauxtry. What a talentless toad.

But never mind, I hope you’re not in the flood zone again Lisa!

In other music news:

BOYLE-ING OVER? Steve Barnett and his Team Columbia may have the season’s big surprise record on their hands with Susan Boyle‘s I Dreamed a Dream, as preorder reports from Amazon and QVC are shaping up to catapult first-week sales into the 3-400k range. What will tomorrow’s retail picture look like? Stay tuned to this Bat channel for all the scuttlebutt. (11/23a)

Rumor Mill

Meanwhile…

Taylor Swift (who appeared via satellite from London) took home five statuettes, and Michael Jackson got four at Sunday night’s fan-determined American Music Awards show, which took place at the Nokia Theatre in downtown L.A.

But the AMAs are more about glitz than trophies, and that aspect was handled with fitting excessiveness by all concerned. Janet Jackson opened things up with a medley of old songs, Rihanna, sporting white striped bondage gear, sang a mash-up of ”Wait Your Turn” and “Hard” from the upcoming Rated R, and J.Lo pretended to be a boxer while performing her new single “Louboutins” in an over-the-top production number, during which she took an unfortunate tumble, landing on her tuchus, though we didn’t see it on the West Coast, where her leap was slo-mo’d to cover her imperfect landing.

Hits Daily Double

Let’s see if this works:

A rare same-day update from HDD:

DREAM COMES TRUE: Susan Boyle’s Columbia album, I Dreamed a Dream, which hit the streets today, is already selling two to three times the estimated pre-release total for retailers, on top of breaking the all-time pre-order record at Amazon.com. Based on current tallies, the disc will easily top 500k and could go even higher. (11/23p)

Rumor Mill

Since Lisa dropped by, I thought I’d post a little UK album sales news:

“The X Factor” series tightened its stranglehold on the U.K. sales charts, securing a double victory for creator/judge Simon Cowell’s Sony Music-distributed Syco Music label.

Lewis sold 161,000 copies of “Echo,” compared to an opening 375,000 for its predecessor “Spirit” two years ago, according to Official Chart Company data. The new release pushed 2008 “X Factor” runners-up JLS down to No. 2 with their self-titled debut album.

Hollywood Reporter

Clearly it’s not only U.S. Americans buying this album:

Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who shot to fame after her audition for “Britain’s Got Talent” was aired in April, appears set to have the biggest album in Britain this year, music retailer HMV said on Monday.

“HMV is now revising significantly its estimate for the total weekly sales upward from the 300,000 that we initially projected to a figure closer to 400,000,” Castaldo said.

Hollywood Reporter

NEWS ALERT!

Ever since Being Human premiered this summer on BBC America, we have been besieged with requests for the Season 1 DVD. We are happy to relay the news that the various rights issues have been resolved, and DVDs and Blu-rays are in the works, though probably not until mid 2010. In the meantime, why not catch up with woeful werewolf Russell Tovey‘s work in The History Boys and Little Dorrit? And sexy vampire Aiden Turner has recently stirred hearts and dropped trou frequently as the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti in the BBC miniseries Desperate Romantics, which we hope will reach these shores next year.

Yay!

Why? Just why? Seriously, why?

It’s entirely possible that this is simply a backlash against all of the pretty but vacuous pop stars who seem to dominate the radio airwaves with their over-processed, auto-tuned, triple-tracked “voices.”

Anyone can see that it is Kate Gosselin

Ah, thanks RSF…I see it now.