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Though Houston’s “Greatest Hits” CD sold enough to make it the sixth biggest selling album in the land last week, its age makes it ineligible from appearing in the Top 200. It does, however, top Billboard’s Catalogue Album list, with sales of 63,853.

Still, McCartney’s album, as well as most others on the chart, had a full week to tally those numbers. Houston’s boost came from just a single day, since Nielsen SoundScan cuts off its counting on Sunday night (for the Wednesday chart).

Expect Whitney’s disk to sell far more by the time next week’s chart hits.

In the meantime, Houston’s self-titled debut disk also made the Top Catalogue Chart, at No. 5.

Tareq Salahi is suing Neal Schon’s for $50 million because Schon stole his wife.

Can he keep his money if he gives her back?

Salahi filed the suit Tuesday in Virginia, saying he and estranged wife Michaele Salahi were on track to make a fortune together from multiple TV shows, including “Dancing with the Stars,” before the Journey guitarist’s sexiness screwed everything up.

You never see drummers causing this kind of trouble.

According to the suit, Salahi and Michaele had an offer to make $150,000 to participate on the Australian version of “Dancing with the Stars” in 2011, an offer to appear on another network TV show in the U.S.

“Divorce Court,” maybe?

But when Michaele ran off with Schon in Sept.

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NEW ORLEANS — Actress Patricia Clarkson got a brass band reception when she arrived Wednesday in New Orleans, setting the stage for the all-women Krewe of Muses parade to roll Thursday night.

Muses kicks off a string of celebrity-studded parades leading up to Mardi Gras on Tuesday. The parades are held by individual krewes — social clubs that spend all year putting together the elaborate floats and costumes. The pop-rock band Maroon 5 rides with the krewe Endymion on Saturday night, comedian and actor Will Ferrell rides as king of Bacchus on Sunday night and rocker Bret Michaels will join Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper in Orpheus on Monday.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Theresa Andersson will also be featured in Muses, and as her float rolls through the city streets she will perform songs from her upcoming album “Street Parade,” accompanied by a 50-piece marching band. It

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ALEXANDRIA, Va – A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the television show “South Park” for supposedly insulting the prophet Muhammad is expected to enter a guilty plea.
  

Jesse Curtis Morton, also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, was charged last year with communicating threats and has been in custody since his arrest in Morocco in October.
  

A plea agreement hearing in federal court in Alexandria has been scheduled for Thursday. Morton’s lawyer, James Hundley, confirmed Morton will plead to three counts, including communicating threats.
  

Last year, another operator of the Revolution Muslim website, Zachary Chesser, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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The guest list for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions just got longer.

The Crickets, the Famous Flames, the Comets, the Miracles, the Midnighters and the Blue Caps also will be enshrined during the sold-out ceremony Saturday, April 14, at Public Auditorium in Cleveland.

The Rock Hall is expected to announce the additions today.

“It’s a real honor to take our place among all those great rock and rollers,” said guitarist Sonny Curtis of the Crickets, Buddy Holly’s band.

The Famous Flames backed James Brown early in his career. The Comets were Bill Haley’s group. The Miracles were led by Smokey Robinson.

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