• One day sales at Hits: T.I. could scan over 500,000 in its first week, Tim McGraw in on pace for 200,000 and Ghostface Killah in looking at 120,000. (Hits)

• The IFPI is pleased with the anti-piracy steps being taken by China. (Reuters)

• Speculation is that Google is working on its entry into digital music. If it's not incredibly superior to the Google video store, the company should skip it altogether. (ArsTechnica)

• The latest on Amazon.com's digital music launch: It'll be here by the end of 2006. A Merril Lynch analyst looks for the subscription model to create a "defensible competitive moat" in the long-term. Yes, that would be the best use of the word moat thus far in 2006. (Forbes.com)

• Interpol on its rumored deal with Interscope: A "blatant rumor," whatever that is. Look, wordsmiths, if it wasn't true a simple "no" would suffice. Can't want to read that Universal Music Group press release in a few months. (Pitchfork)