• Hits predicts a massive first week for Jay-Z's Kingdome Come...in the 850,000 range. All in all, it looks like abum sales are surging upward just as they do this time of year. (Read article at Hits)

• EMI Music signed a licensing agreement with mobile music company Jamba, which has launched only in Germany thus far (it is known as Jamster in other countries). Tracks will be available for downloads and subscriptions for both the PC and mobile phone simultaneously. In September of 206, News Corp. purchased 51% of Jamba. The company plans to combine Jamba with Fox Mobile Entertainment. (Read press release)

• More EMI: EMI Music UK inked a deal with PSP-Playlist to allow its catalog of music videos to be downloaded onto the Sony PSP device. Videos will sell for between £1.89 and £2.19. (Read article at New Media Knowledge)

• The FCC will finance ten studies on media ownership: How People Get News and Information, Ownership Structure and Robustness of Media, Effect of Ownership Structure and Robustness on the Quantity and Quality of TV Programming, News Operations, Station Ownership and Programming in Radio, News Coverage of Cross-Owned Newspapers and Television Stations, Minority Ownership (two on this topic), Vertical Integration and Trends in Ownership, Format, and Finance. (Read article at Radio Ink)

• The U.S. Copyright Office has allowed a few new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One is the ability to reverse engineer the DRM on audio CDs for security purposes. All exemptions will take effect on Monday, November 27 and will last three years. Where did such an exemption come from? Why, the Sony BMG rootkit fiasco, of course. (Read article at Security Focus)

• RIP Robert Lockwood, blues artist. (Read AP article)