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The Reprise crooner adds another 444k to his season-high total, down just 6% from last week’s 473k for his third consecutive week atop the HITS’ Album sales chart.

XL/Columbia’s Adele 21 album cements its title as the year’s best-seller with another 275k, good for #2, hurtling towards 6 million in the new year, as Grammy season approaches. That total was good for a whopping 48% rise over last week.

Island/IDJ’s Justin Bieber (#3), Nonesuch’s The Black Keys (#4) and Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum (#16-5, +78%) round out the Top 5, giving Rob Cavallo/Todd Moscowitz’s Warner Bros. label two of them..

The rest of the Top 10 includes Decca’s Andrea Bocelli live album (#6), Roadrunner’s Nickelback (#7), YM/CM/Universal Republic’s Drake (#8), Mercury Nashville/19/Interscope’s Scotty McCreery (#9) and Capitol/EMI’s Now 40 (#10).

With Bieber, Bocelli, Drake and McCreery, Lucian Grainge’s UMG nabs four in the Top 10.

RCA’s Anthony Hamilton was the week’s top debut, landing at #11, along with WB’s Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa (#27) and the digital-only Metallica EP Beyond Magnetic (#33).

Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#45), A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5 (#47), Nickelodeon/ Columbia’s Big Time Rush (#48) and Startime/Columbia’s Foster the People (#49) all re-enter the Top 50.

Biggest double-digit gainers of the week, aside from Lady A’s chart-leading 78% and Adele’s 48% rise, include Big Machine’s Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour Live (#33-19, 51%), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Luke Bryan (#41-31, +45%), Swift’s Speak Now album (#39-30, +44%), XL/Columbia’s Adele 19 album (#34-22, +43%), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#29-18, +42%), RCA Nashville’s Miranda Lambert (#47-36, +37%) and Columbia’s Tony Bennett (#36-24, +36%).

This week’s releases, the last biggies of the year, include Def Jam/IDJ rapper Young Jeezy’s TM 103 and Common’s first WB release, The Dreamer, The Believer.