BOYLE-ING POINT

Don’t be surprised if Susan Boyle comes down your chimney this Christmas Eve. The Scottish songstress has become almost as much a part of the holiday landscape as egg nog, mistletoe and drunken office parties.

Her Columbia album The Gift continues to #1 reign over the HITS sales chart, with another 239k added to a total that’s now approaching 1.4 million, a boon for Team Sony’s two wise men, Rob Stringer and Steve Barnett.

Big Machine country ingénue Taylor Swift’s Speak Now continues to hold its piece of the retail action at #2, chalking up another 201k to its  2.35 million haul to date.

Columbia’s Glee Cast Christmas album is up 51% to #3, followed by the Top 10’s only new entry in Grand Hustle/Atlantic hip-hop superstar T.I.’s No Mercy, debuting at #4. Columbia, with three in the Top 5 (and four in the Top 10), has the final entry in young opera singer Jackie Evancho’s O Holy Night at #5.

YM/Cash Money/Universal Motown’s Nicki Minaj (#6), Def Jam/IDJ’s Rihanna (#7), Reprise’s Josh Groban (#8), Decca’s Andrea Bocelli (#9) and Columbia’s Glee Cast Vol. 4 (#10) round out the top of the chart, giving Lucian Grainge’s UMG and Sony four apiece of the Top 10, as WMG sports the remaining two.

Other chart entries are registered by Walt Disney’s Daft Punk Tron: Legacy soundtrack (#16), Jive/JLG Gap Band member Charlie Wilson’s solo album, Just Charlie (#18), Fantasy’s Vince Guaraldi perennial Charlie Brown Christmas (#30), Universal Republic’s Okie rockers Hinder (#36) and Ultra Records’ world-class DJ Deadmau5 (#42).

Glassnote’s Best New Artist nominees Mumford & Sons (#40) and Taylor Swift’s Holiday Collection (#50) both re-enter.

Aside from the Glee Cast Christmas album, the week’s other big gainers include Decca’s Annie Lennox Christmas Cornucopia (#42-35, +45%), Atlantic’s Zac Brown Band (#48-41, +40%), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#31-25, +37%), Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#22-178, +36%) and New Elektra’s Bruno Mars (#33-29, +31%).

Hitting stores this week are Epic’s Michael Jackson, Jive/JLG’s R. Kelly, Bad Boy/Interscope’s Diddy-Dirty Money, 19/Jive/JLG’s American Idol alumnus Crystal Bowersox and LaFace/JLG’s Ciara.