It'll be the dead King of Pop vs. the teen queen of country for American Music Awards artist of the year.

Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift were among the nominees announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills. Also contending for artist of the year: Eminem, Kings of Leon and Lady Gaga.

Swift topped all artists with six nominations and Jackson, who died June 25, has five. Eminem received four.

Winners are determined by an online vote of fans and will be announced at a Los Angeles ceremony televised by ABC on Nov. 22. Nominees were selected through a measurement combining sales and radio airplay.

GOOD MORNING YESTERYEAR: See, nothing is new anymore. That new posthumous Michael Jackson single? Co-written with Paul Anka 26 years ago.

A representative to the Jackson estate's special administrators has confirmed that "This Is It" originally was "I Never Heard," one of two songs Jackson and Anka wrote in 1983 for Anka's album "Walk a Fine Line." The vocal and piano line for "I Never Heard" and "This Is It" are the same, Anka said.

Anka said Monday that he had reached a deal to receive half the publishing royalties, so he's all sanguine. "I was going to take that track and do exactly what they did with somebody else," he said in a Los Angeles Times article. "But I love what they've done and I do think it's an honest mistake."

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Kate has alleged that Jon left her just $1,345 in a joint account that originally had a balance of $230,000.

Kate's attorney Mark Momjian says in a statement: "The remaining sum of $55,000, which Ms. Gosselin used for household bills and expenses relating to the children, will be subject to further determination by the arbitrator at a later date."

She punk'd you, ash: When January Jones first moved to L.A. and was dating Ashton Kutcher, he told her he didn't think she could make it in Hollywood.

"(He) was NOT supportive of my acting," Jones, 31, tells November's GQ magazine. "He was like, 'I don't think you're going to be good at this.'"

WIth Jones now a Golden Globe-nominated star of "Mad Men," she's all sanguine. "If anything, I should thank him," she says. "Because the minute you tell me I can't do something, that's when I'm most motivated."

YOU GOTTA WORK: Tyra Banks tops Forbes magazine's recently announced list of Prime-Time's Top Earning Women, and not by resting on her laurels.

As host of "America's Next Top Model" and "The Tyra Banks Show," plus cameos hither and yon, the former supermodel earned an estimated $30 million for 2009.

She also has a Secretariat-like lead over the rest of the field, not that any of them rely solely on their TV paychecks either. Movies, endorsements and book deals augment their bank accounts. One "longtime manager of top talent" said in the Forbes article, "You used to make great money for mediocrity, and those days are over."

Runner-up Katherine Heigl's work on "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Ugly Truth" was enough for $18 million. See? Now you need multiple mediocrities.

The rest of Forbes' list: Marg Helgenberger ($9.5 million), Eva Longoria Parker ($9 million), Mariska Hargitay ($8.5 million), Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Maura Tierney (tied with $8 million), Tina Fey ($7 million), Marcia Cross ($6.2 million) and Jennifer Love Hewitt ($6 million).

LOU, SEAL — ARE THEY GIANTS FANS?: Model Heidi Klum and singer Seal welcomed their first daughter, Lou Sulola Samuel, on Friday.

Papa waxed rhapsodic about the birth Monday in a press release: "From the moment she looked into both of our eyes, it was endless love at first sight. She is beautiful beyond words and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years."

The couple, who wed in 2005, have two sons. Klum, 36, has a 5-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.