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Briefly: Eminem, U2, Linkin Park, Hank Garland
Last-minute holiday shoppers snapped up about 430,000 copies of Eminem 's "Encore" over the last week, enough to launch the album back to the top of the U.S. album chart.
The album, which spent last week at No. 3, previously topped The Billboard 200 for two consecutive weeks following its release in November.
Holding steady at No. 2 on this week's chart is the hits compilation "NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 17," while U2 's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" jumps two slots to No. 3.
Destiny's Child's "Destiny Fulfilled" is up two notches to No. 4, while Shania Twain's "Greatest Hits" rounds out the Top 5.
With $100,000 in seed money from rockers Linkin Park , the American Red Cross has launched Music for Relief, a fund to assist tsunami disaster victims in the Far East.
Hank Garland , a groundbreaking guitarist who recorded with Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline, among other greats, died Monday night at an Orange Park, FL, hospital of a staph infection. He was 74.
