EMINEM - EMINEM PERFORMS AN ENCORE AT NUMBER ONE

Rapper EMINEM has returned to the top of the American album charts three

weeks after his ENCORE CD was knocked from the number one spot.

The album sold 430,000 units during the Christmas holiday week to bounce

back to number one from number three. Encore spent three two weeks at

number one in November (04). December has been a good month for the

rapper - LOYAL TO THE GAME, TUPAC SHAKUR's third posthumous album, which

Eminem produced, hit the top of the charts last week (22DEC04).