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• Kanye, Guns N' Roses Post Slow Debut-Week Sales
  Despite reports that Black Friday kicked off the holiday retail season with a bang, several major albums released last week posted disappointing numbers. Kanye West's "808s & Heartbreak" will sell in the range of 425,000-450,000 units, significantly down from the 700,000-975,000 previously projected, while Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is expected to clock in at 250,000-260,000, well below a 300,000-784,000 projection.
  
  
• Creed Hammering Out Reunion Details
  As first tipped here last month, Creed is hammering out details for a lucrative 2009 reunion tour, sources tell Billboard. The Scott Stapp-led group, which was one of the top sellers of the past decade, has not performed since a rancorous split in June 2004.
  
  
• Killers Trump Guns N' Roses For U.K. No. 1
  In an all-new top three on the U.K. album chart, the Killers' "Day & Age" (Vertigo/Universal) took the No. 1 spot ahead of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" (Black Frog/Geffen), while Take That scored its 11th U.K. career No. 1 single with "Greatest Day" (Polydor/Universal).
  
  
• Springsteen Feels 'Lucky' With Amazon, MySpace
  Bruce Springsteen has unveiled a second new song from his next album, "Working on a Dream," jointly through Amazon.com and MySpace Music.
  
  
• Live Earth India Canceled After Terror Attacks
  The Live Earth India concert, scheduled to be held in Mumbai on Sunday (Dec. 7), has been called off after terror attacks in India's financial capital killed nearly 200 people.
  
  
• MSTRKRFT Heads Downtown With New Album
  The long-awaited sophomore album from MSTRKRFT, "Fist of God," will be released in the States on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak/Downtown in March, Billboard.com has learned.
  
  
• Estranged Relative Arrested In Hudson Killings
  Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law has been arrested in Illinois in the deaths of the singer's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
  
  
• Peyroux Goes 'Bare' On New Album
  Vocalist Madeleine Peyroux teams with famed producer Larry Klein, Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Joe Henry on her new album, "Bare Bones," due March 10 from Rounder.
  
  
• 'Halo Trilogy' Previews New Game
  "Halo Trilogy," the complete soundtracks composed and produced by the award-winning team of Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori for Microsoft's top-selling "Halo" video game franchise, will be released tomorrow (Dec. 2) as a five-disc collectible set by Nile Rodgers' Sumthing Else Music Works label.
  
  
• Weezer Raids Vaults, Records Xmas Carols
  On the heels of the release of the second volume of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo's home recordings, the group is now taking a look back into its own vaults. Cuomo tells Billboard the tentatively titled "Odds and Ends" will feature "great songs" which "for some reason didn't make the final cut" for an album.
  
  
• T.I. Fends Off Beyonce, Remains Atop Hot 100
  T.I. starts a fifth non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna, but Beyonce is nipping at his heels with two different songs. Her "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" rockets 28-2 after selling 204,000 digital downloads, while "If I Were a Boy" holds at No. 3.
  
  
• Beyonce Starts 'Fierce' Atop Album Chart
  Beyonce scores her third straight No. 1 debut on The Billboard 200 this week as the double-disc "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" shifts a whopping 482,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
  
  
• Madonna Wrapping North American Tour
  Madonna will wrap the North American leg of her Sticky & Sweet tour tonight (Nov. 26) in front of 50,000 people at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. The 28 dates in North America have grossed about $91.5 million and moved about 550,000 tickets, according to tour producer Arthur Fogel, chairman of global music for Live Nation.
  
  
• Guns N' Roses Lawyer Blasts Dr Pepper
  The lawyer for Guns N' Roses and Axl Rose has castigated Dr Pepper, accusing the soda maker of failing to deliver on its promotion to offer free soda in celebration of the band's new album, "Chinese Democracy." Guns N' Roses was never involved in the campaign.
  
  
• The Black Crowes Mulling Next Album
  Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson says that he and brother Chris Robinson, the group's frontman, have "tons of songs around. Chris and I are always writing." They just have to figure out what to do with them.
  
  
• The Jesus Lizard Reuniting In 2009
  Seminal Chicago indie rock outfit the Jesus Lizard will play its first shows in 10 years in 2009, while Touch & Go will remaster and reissue its first four studio albums.
  
  
• U2, Coldplay, Killers Help Launch (RED)WIRE
  Some of the biggest names in music are contributing exclusive songs to RED(WIRE), a new digital music magazine launching on World AIDS Day (Dec. 1). U2, Coldplay, the Killers, the Dixie Chicks, John Legend, R.E.M. and Bob Dylan are on board for the initiative, all proceeds from which will benefit HIV-infected people in Africa.
  
  
• Nickelback Plots 2009 Tour
  Nickelback will begin a North American tour Feb. 25 in Nashville in support of its just-released Roadrunner album "Dark Horse." Tickets go on sale Dec. 5 via LiveNation.com, but Nickelback fan club members get first crack on Friday (Nov. 28).
  
  
• No Doubt, Fall Out Boy Set For Bamboozle
  After its weekend announcement that it was heading back on tour, No Doubt has revealed its first show of 2009.
  
  
• Rundgren Producing New York Dolls Album
  Three decades after producing the New York Dolls' seminal 1973 debut, Todd Rundgren will be back behind the boards for the band's next album. The as-yet-untitled set is due next year on Warner Bros.' revived Atco imprint.