MUSIC WINNERS Celine Dion's profits will go on... and on. Dion is the top-selling artist of 1998, thanks to her multiplatinum albums "Let's Talk About Love" and "These Are Special Times," not to mention her contribution to the "Titanic" soundtrack, which sold 26 million albums worldwide.... Beating out the Dave Matthews Band, Shania Twain, and Garth Brooks, Elton John's 1998 concert tour earned a whopping $46.2 million this year, making him the No. 1 concert artist in the US. for '98.

TUBE WATCH After only two weeks in its Monday at 9:30 p.m. slot, freshman sitcom "Conrad Bloom" will be replaced by Fred Savage's on-again, off-again show "Working," starting Jan. 11.... CBS will dump its chick-fest lineup "The Nanny" and "Maggie Winters" on Jan. 13, so "60 Minutes II" can premiere after a new episode of ratings-grabber "JAG" instead.

REJECTED On Christmas Day, Thailand's government rejected Twentieth Century Fox's fourth-and-final bid to shoot "Anna and the King" (starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat) in Thailand, claiming the script is "insufficiently respectful toward the Thai monarchy." Shooting begins in Malaysia this March.

TODAY IN HISTORY Director Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch") died in 1984. ... In 1895, the fathers of film, Antoine and Louis Lumiere, unveil their invention, the cinematograph, in Paris' Grand Cafe.