‘Hannah’s’ the winner by a Miley

MILEY CYRUS and Hannah Montana -- who happen to be the same person -- each have the bestselling album in America this week.

The double-album “Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus” sold a brisk 326,000 copies to debut at No. 1 on Nielsen SoundScan’s tally of U.S. music sales. The unusual CD package has two covers and two CDs inside. One album is the second soundtrack to the popular Disney Channel show “Hannah Montana”; the other is the new album by Cyrus, the 14-year-old Tennessee singer who portrays the title character on the show. She sings 10 songs as “Montana,” another 10 by herself.

The Disney starlet’s strong showing dashed the hopes of Kelly Clarkson to score a No. 1 debut for her second album, “My December,” which checks in at No. 2 on solid sales of 291,000 copies. The album has become one of the year’s most-followed stories in pop music; the former “American Idol” clashed with executives at RCA, her record label, over the musical direction of the project. Clarkson also recently canceled her summer tour and fired her manager.

At No. 7 is “Easy Tiger,” the new collection from Ryan Adams, the critically acclaimed alt-country songwriter who once fronted the band Whiskeytown. The album sold 61,000 its first week in stores. Adams plays the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills on July 19.

The Beastie Boys became famous with their rhyming, but their newest CD, “The Mix-Up,” is an instrumental collection. The album sold 44,000 copies in its first week in stores to claim the No. 15 spot on the chart. The Beasties have gone without a word before: In 1996, they released another instrumental album, “The In Sound From the Way Out!”

At No. 36, it’s “Live at the Gorge,” the seven-disc concert album from Pearl Jam that sold 19,000 copies. The album, recorded at the Gorge Amphitheatre, the scenic venue on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington state. Pearl Jam has more music to look forward to: Lead singer Eddie Vedder has a solo project due in September with the soundtrack to the Sean Penn film “Into the Wild.”