With the White Stripes sidelined by “acute anxiety” and the summer season of redneck pop country tours winding down, the hottest ticket on the U.S. concert circuit is…Hannah Montana?!

Yep, Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, has weathered the potential reverse nepotism of being “Achy-Break-Heart”-cum-Dancing-With-The-Stars-contestant Billy Ray Cyrus‘ kid and risen to superstardom amongst the little ones, who ostensibly are the only people left in America who still pay for music. With the soundtrack to tween flick Hairspray ringing in as the best-selling independent release of 2007, it’s clear that labels can still cash in on kids - they don’t know better than to buy an album at Best Buy, and neither do many of their time-crunched, credit card-wielding parents.

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