THIS IS HIT!!

The late King of Pop earns himself a rare double-play by topping both the movie box office tally and the HITS Album sales chart, as This Is It moonwalks to #1 with a total of 379k.

Jackson tops Big Machine’s Taylor Swift, whose deluxe edition of Fearless, with six new tracks, moves #7-2, +230% for 111k and a cumulative total north of 4.1m. Not bad for a teenager. And that total could rise considerably after her expected Grammy nominations next month.

Wind-up comeback rockers Creed come Full Circle with a #3 debut, followed by new chart entries from Lava/Atlantic’s holiday perennials Trans-Siberian Orchestra (#4), J Records/RMG’s Rod Stewart Soulbook (#5), Deutsche Grammophon’s Sting If on a Winter’s Night collection (#6) and Brushfire/Universal Republic’s Jack Johnson live acoustic set, En Concert (#10).

Reprise’s Michael Buble (#7), Chop Shop/Atlantic’s Twilight Saga: The New Moon (#8) and Curb’s Tim McGraw (#9) are the Top 10 holdovers.

Other Top 50 newcomers include Strange Music’s Tech N9ne (#14), Anti’s Swell Season (#16), Hollywood’s Atreyu (#17), Interscope’s Wolfmother (#18), Columbia’s Train (#19), E1 Entertainment’s Brian McKnight (#20), Sire’s Tegan & Sara (#22), Victory’s Between the Buried & Me (#44) and Def Jam/IDJ’s Triple C’s (#47).

Jackson’s catalog albums also showed double-digit gains, with Number Ones (#13) up 24%, Thriller (#38-29) 39% and Essential (#41-36) 30%.

Aside from Swift and Jackson, Interscope’s Lady Gaga (#24, +3%) and Kiss Records’ Kiss (#25, +2%) also showed sales gains.

Topping this week’s releases is 19/Arista Nashville country superstar Carrie Underwood, with Columbia’s Glee soundtrack, Sony Music’s Now 32, Interscope’s Weezer, RCA/RMG’s Foo Fighters and DGC’s Nirvana Live at Reading CD/DVD also on tap. The following week (11/10), it’s Bon Jovi and the Nov. 17 line-up includes Norah Jones, 50 Cent, John Mayer, Idol winner Kris Allen and Leona Lewis.