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Briefly: DMX, Ashlee Simpson, The Darkness, Peter, Paul & Mary
DMX pleaded guilty Tuesday (10/25) to violating the conditions of his release, and faces 60 days in prison.
The rapper pleaded guilty last year to reckless endangerment after smashing his SUV into a gate at New York's Kennedy Airport in 2004, and was sentenced to a conditional release stipulating that he could land in jail if he violated the law again within the next year.
Since then, he's been hit with two traffic violations while his driver's license was either suspended or revoked: he was cited for driving a car at more than 100 mph, and was involved in a three-car traffic accident, one of the cars being an unmarked police car, according to an Associated Press report.
Ashlee Simpson has officially dodged the sophomore slump, notching her second consecutive No. 1 debut with her new album, "I Am Me."
"I Am Me" sold about 220,000 copies during its first week in stores, enough to top the debut of Rod Stewart 's latest standards collection, "Thanks for the Memory ... The Great American Songbook: Volume IV."
Country mainstay Martina McBride claims the No. 3 slot with her new album, "Timeless," marking her best-ever showing on The Billboard 200 album chart.
Nickelback's "All the Right Reasons" falls two notches to No. 4, and Stevie Wonder's "A Time to Love" debuts at No. 5.
Rockers The Darkness are scheduled to drop their second album, "One Way Ticket to Hell ... and Back," on Nov. 29.
Mary Travers of the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary , who underwent a bone-marrow transplant seven months ago due to leukemia, will rejoin the group for a Dec. 9 performance at New York's Carnegie Hall, according to a New York Daily News report.
