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Briefly: Hilary Duff, Counting Crows, Kanye West, Curt Kirkwood
Hilary Duff 's best-of collection, "Most Wanted," spends its second consecutive week atop The Billboard 200 album chart with about 100,000 more copies sold.
Duff's album beat out the hits compilation "NOW! That's What I Call Music Vol. 19," which jumps from No. 4 to No. 2. Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi" holds steady at No. 3, according to Billboard.
The Black Eyed Peas' "Monkey Business" jumps two slots to No. 4, while rapper Jim Jones' "Harlem: Diary of a Summer" debuts at No. 5.
Counting Crows and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra will collaborate on an Oct. 25 performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
The show is the fifth in the Argent Mortgage Orchestrated Series, which previously paired orchestras with LeAnn Rimes, Seal, Jewel and Duran Duran.
Rapper Kanye West reportedly has filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing Chicago DJ Eric "E-Smoove" Miller and his company Focus Music Group from releasing nine tracks West recorded in 1995.
West's suit claims that Miller is shopping the tapes to potential distributors without a contract with West.
Former Meat Puppets frontman/guitarist Curt Kirkwood will release his first solo album, "Snow," on Sept. 27.
The set was produced by Pete Anderson, who turned the knobs on the Meat Puppets' 1999 album "Forbidden Places."