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POP/ROCK

Album Battle: Garth Brooks’ new album, “Sevens,” sold about 375,000 copies during its first day in stores Tuesday, according to Capitol Nashville estimates based on the label’s conversations with 14 of its top 16 retail accounts. If the figure is correct, it would be more albums sold in a single day than all but five albums have sold in entire weeks so far this year. And going into the Thanksgiving weekend sales rush, the figure positions “Sevens” to challenge the SoundScan era first-week sales record of 950,000 copies, set in 1993 by Pearl Jam’s “Vs.” Nonetheless, there’s some question whether Brooks’ album will enter the chart at No. 1 when the week’s SoundScan figures are tallied next Wednesday. Sources at the Musicland Group and Best Buy, two of the nation’s biggest retail music chains, said the Brooks album was outsold at their stores Tuesday by 2Pac’s posthumous two-disc collection, “R U Still Down? (Remember Me).” Jive Records, which distributes the 2Pac album, said it sold “more than 200,000 copies” Tuesday at 10 retailers that it checked.

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Pilatus Wanted: A $90,000 arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for former Milli Vanilli lip-syncher Rob Pilatus after he failed to show up for a hearing in Van Nuys Municipal Court. The city attorney’s office had charged Pilatus with violating his probation on four prior misdemeanor convictions after learning that the district attorney’s office had charged him in September with felony forgery and grand theft counts. A separate arrest warrant was issued last month, when Pilatus skipped an L.A. Municipal Court hearing on the felony charges.

TELEVISION

Phoning ‘Home’: An episode of “The X-Files” that the Fox network has said it won’t repeat because of graphic content was the leading vote-getter for the 12-episode “X-Files Viewer Choice Marathon,” airing today from noon to midnight on cable’s FX. The episode, called “Home,” originally aired in 1996 and dealt in part with incest. It airs on FX at 10 p.m.

QUICK TAKES

Nashville doctors said Wednesday that singer Johnny Cash, 65, has fully recovered from pneumonia but will remain hospitalized for treatment of Shy-Drager’s Syndrome, a disease related to Parkinson’s . . . . Pat Boone will perform and light a six-story Christmas tree on Friday at 3:45 p.m. at a free holiday celebration at Universal CityWalk. Musician Kitaro and L.A. Circus members are also scheduled to take part. . . . Although still ranking behind Oprah Winfrey, “The Jerry Springer Show” surpassed “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” in national syndicated talk-show ratings for the first time during the week of Nov. 10 to 15, according to Nielsen figures released Wednesday.