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Briefly: Ruben Studdard, Eminem, Destiny's Child, Prince, Limp Bizkit
Ruben Studdard , who won the Fox-TV talent show "American Idol" in 2003, was hospitalized in his hometown of Birmingham, AL, on Monday night (11/20), and reportedly is likely to spend the rest of the week under observation.
According to published reports, exhaustion was believed to be the reason for his illness, but the seriously overweight singer will undergo further tests.
Studdard was hospitalized the night before his sophomore album, the gospel set "I Need an Angel," hit stores.
Eminem 's "Encore" holds on to its No. 1 position on The Billboard 200 album chart thanks to sales of 871,000 copies during its second week in stores. That figure brings the album's two-week sales total to 1.6 million, tying a record that Em's previous album, "The Eminem Show," set in 2002, according to Billboard.
Destiny's Child comes in at No. 2 with 497,000 copies of its latest set, "Destiny Fulfilled," while Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz follow at No. 3. Clay Aiken's "Merry Christmas With Love" and Shania Twain's "Greatest Hits" round out the Top 5 at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively.
"Call My Name," a cut off of Prince 's latest album--this year's "Musicology"--is now in its 27th week on Billboard's R&B Singles chart, which sets a record for the singer as the longest any of his numerous hits have spent on that chart, according to his publicist.
Previously, "I Want 2 B Your Lover" and "The Most Beautiful Girl In the World" shared that record with 23 weeks on the chart.
In a recent posting on his band's website, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said that the group's work-in-progress album is "so f---ing heavy it hurts."
Durst and his bandmates--including returning guitarist Wes Borland, who left the band a few years ago--are holed up in a remote mountain location somewhere in California while working on the set, according to posts from Durst and Borland.
