If you’re one of the few who is not a fan of TDE, I feel sorry for you. The camp continues to strive for greatness and the first major label debut has set the tone. “GKMC” has officially reached gold status after 5 weeks of being released. Congrats to the entire TDE family. [AlLindstrom]

Predicting which artists will hit the Billboard charts can be a vexing parlor game. Shazam wants to turn that game into a science, sprinkled with a little human intuition. The London company, whose name-that-tune app is used by more than 250 million users to tag half-a-million songs each day, on Friday came out with its…

Post-Black Friday brings the expected sales drops, only one new release in the Top 15 and several Christmas titles showing seasonal gains. Here’s how it looks headed into the weekend: * Alicia Keys (RCA) 150-160k Rod Stewart “Merry Christmas Baby” (Verve) 130-140k Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 120-130k Phillip Phillips (19/Interscope) 80-85k One Direction (Syco/Columbia) 75-80k Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 70-75k Michael Bublé “Christmas” (Reprise)…

The Billboard 200 On the chart this week, Rihanna bounded in at No. 1 with her first chart-topping set, “Unapologetic.” The SRP/Def Jam album moved 238,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, also marking Rihanna’s seventh top 10 studio album (in as many tries). As always, there was no shortage of other…

“Gangnam Style” just keeps getting bigger, buoyed by a massive media blitz that has turned PSY into a household name. Rihanna’s “Diamonds” is also coming on strong, though the track sold 53k fewer than the reigning champ last week. Voice contestant Cassadee Pope is a surprising #3 with her live-on-the-air cover of coach Blake Shelton’s poignant ballad, demonstrating the potency of prime-time…