While last month his arch-nemesis Taylor Swift moved over a million units of her new album in its debut week, poor old Kanye West failed to generate even half that much business. This, despite an aggressive Amazon MP3 campaign that priced My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at $3.99 and gave away a $3 coupon, effectively selling the album for less than a buck. Stilll though, half a million is hardly anything to shake a stick at; in fact, it’s the fourth-best sales week of 2010. So congratulations are still in order. Billboard 200:

1. Kanye West – “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” – 496,000 (incl. 224,000 downloads; debut)

2. Nicki Minaj – “Pink Friday” – 375,000 (debut)

3. Susan Boyle – “The Gift” – 263,000 (down 21%)

4. Taylor Swift – “Speak Now” – 241,000 (up 64%)

5. Jackie Evancho – “O Holy Night” – 142,000 (down 41%)

6. Rihanna – “Loud” – 141,000 (down 32%)

7. Justin Bieber – “My Worlds Acoustic” – 115,000 (Wal-Mart exclusive; debut)

8. My Chemical Romance – “Danger Days: the True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” – 112,000 (debut)

9. Ne-Yo – “Libra Scale” – 112,000 (debut)

10. “Glee” Christmas – 108,000 (down 33%)

Further down:

11. Kid Rock – “Born Free” – 104,000

12. Josh Groban – “Illuminations” – 99,000

15. Ke$ha – “Cannibal” – 74,000 (debut)

16. Katy Perry – “Teenage Dream” – 72,000 (up 180%)

18. “Burlesque” soundtrack – 63,000 (debut)

43. Jay-Z – “Hits Collection” – 28,000 (debut)

93. Lee DeWyze – “Live It Up” (down 63%)

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Nov. 28) totaled 10.24 million units

• Digital track sales this past week totaled 22.16 million downloads

Additional sales data via MTV.