WEEK IN PREVIEW: BACKSTREET WATCHING THEIR BACKS

Look, the year might as well be over. You know it and we know it. All we're doing is counting the days until we can get drink enough eggnog to kill a horse and ignore our families for a couple of weeks.

But as long as we have to be here, we're going to predict the future.

Hitting the stores tomorrow: Rage Against the Machine's cover-songs album, live sets from Alice in Chains and Neil Young, K-Ci & Jo-Jo, Memphis Bleek and Funkmaster Flex's "60 Minutes of Funk, Mixtape Volume IV."

On the album chart, Backstreet Boys continue their streak at #1, with the Beatles, a popular rock band of the mid-1900s, continuing to show that old songs still have some life in them by hanging close at #2.

Just behind those two are "Now Vol. 5" and Creed, who take a big jump on the heels of winning four My VH1 Awards.

Most added at Top 40 looks to be Pink's "You Make Me Sick." Which, for some reason, people are always singing at us.

In PoMo land, things are very quiet. Extra quiet. Super quiet. Phenomenally quiet. One-hand-clapping quiet. It's almost as if people think that the year is over and they're just counting the days until they can drink enough eggnog to… um… you get the idea.

Yay! Big sales!!!! Smash!!!!