The Beatles were late to the digital "Revolution," but they're "Here, There and Everywhere" on the digital charts in the week after they finally allowed their music to be sold digitally. Forty seven Beatles songs enter the Hot Digital Songs chart this week, while 17 of the group's albums enter the Top Digital Albums chart.

The Beatles sold 144,000 albums (119,000 digital albums and 25,000 CDs) in the U.S. during the week that ended Nov. 21, up from a total of just 20K the week before, according to Nielsen/SoundScan. The band sold 1.4 million individual tracks in the U.S. during the week, according to Billboard. Worldwide, the band sold more than 2 million individual tracks, according to Apple.

This is the biggest splash that any artist has made on the digital charts since Michael Jackson's posthumous sales spurt in June 2009. In the week after his death, 49 of his songs invaded Hot Digital Songs, while 17 of his albums were listed on Top Digital Albums. But while the total numbers are

Susan Boyle's The Gift enters The Billboard 200 at #1, but its first-week sales tally (318,000) is less than half of that achieved by her phenomenal 2009 debut, I Dreamed A Dream, which started with sales of 701,000. Of course, that album was released when Boyle's irresistable back story was fresh. It probably wasn't fair to expect this album to get off to as fast a start.

The Gift sold less than one-third as many copies as Taylor Swift's Speak Now sold (1,047,000) two weeks ago when it debuted at #1. It even sold slightly less than Speak Now sold in its second week (320,000). Of course, Swift's fans are younger and, as such, more inclined to snap up an album in its first or second week.

Also, being primarily a Christmas album, The Gift may well build as we get closer to the holidays. A lot of people don't like to even think about Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. The album will probably stay at #1 next week with sales in the range of 300K. In fact, it sets a few records this

Taylor Swift's Speak Now sold 1,047,000 copies in its first week. That's the biggest one-week sales tally in more than 5-1/2 years, since 50 Cent's The Massacre sold 1,141,000 copies in its first week in March 2005.

Speak Now registered the second biggest one-week tally in the Nielsen/SoundScan era for an album by a female solo artist. It trails Britney Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again, which sold 1,319,000 copies in its first week in May 2000. Speak Now also posted the second biggest one-week tally for a country album. It trails Garth Brooks' Double Live, which sold 1,085,000 copies in its first week in November 1998.

Speak Now set a new record for the biggest one-week sales tally for an album by a female country artist. The old record was held by Shania Twain's Up!, which sold 874,000 copies in its first week in November 2002.

This is by far Swift's biggest sales week to date. Fearless opened with sales of 592,000 copies in November 2008. Taylor Swift started with sales of 39,000 in

Taylor Swift's Speak Now sold 1,047,000 copies in its first week, which puts it in elite company. It's only the 16th album to sell 1 million copies in one week since Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. Swift's strong showing is all the more impressive because the environment for album sales is much worse than it was a decade ago, when many of these other albums were released.

Speak Now registered the second biggest one-week sales tally for a country album. It trails only Garth Brooks' 1998 smash Double Live. It also posted the second biggest one-week sales tally for an album by a female solo artist, after Britney Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again. (Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack also sold more copies at its peak, but it included tracks by six other artists.)

To put the first-week tally for Speak Now in context, I prepared a list of the 20 biggest one-week sales tallies in the Nielsen/SoundScan era. Garth Brooks is the only artist with three of the