Jason DeRulo’s first charting single “Whatcha Say” is also his first chart-topping single. DeRulo is the fourth artist to accomplish this feat in 2009, along with Owl City (whose “Fireflies” topped the Billboard Hot 100 last week), Jay Sean and Lady Gaga. In other singles chart news, Taylor Swift is the first artist in Hot 100 history to debut five songs within the top 30 within a single week, thanks to each of the new tracks from the deluxe edition of Fearless hitting the chart. Along with the four other singles she had on the chart already, her nine total singles make her the female artist with the most charted titles in a single week. The Beatles still hold the record for most total entries; the Fab Four had 14 singles on the chart on April 11, 1964. [Billboard.com]

Not surprisingly, the soundtrack to Michael Jackson’s documentary This Is It topped the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, selling 373,000 copies. Jackson’s last chart-topping album was 2001’s HIStory. Sting, Jack Johnson, Tech N9ne and the Swell Season made strong debuts this week. [RollingStone.com]

The Pixies kicked off the U.S. portion of their Doolittle tour on Wednesday night at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium, playing the album in its entirety along with B-sides such as “Weird at My School” and “Bailey’s Walk.” For their encore, they reached back to Surfer Rosa’s “Gigantic” and “Where Is My Mind?” [NME.com]

Just in case you need another way to own the Beatles’ catalog, Apple Corps is coming out with a limited-edition USB drive shaped like – what else? – an apple. The drive contains all 14 reissued albums in stereo plus the reissues’ multimedia files; 30,000 of the drives, which will be available in the U.S. on December 8 and in the U.K. on December 7, will be made. [Pitchfork.com]

Liars announced their fifth album Sisterworld for an early 2010 release with a cryptic website featuring nature videos. A less cryptic press release revealed that this is the first album the band has recorded in the U.S. since 2004’s They Were Wrong, So We Drowned and that the band worked with Jon Brion and producer Tom Biller. [Prefixmag.com, TheSisterWorld.com]

The Guardian wonders, “what’s with all the bad album covers?” [Guardian.co.uk]

The Weezer Snuggie is so two days ago. Behold the Owl City onesie! [Idolator.com]