"The making of this record has been really intense, but I've come out feeling purified," lead singer Amy Lee said in a press release. "I've grown so much since 'Fallen,' and Terry is the perfect writing partner--I feel like I've been lifted up to a whole new level of inspiration and possibilities. After all the things we've seen over the past couple of years, beautiful and tragic, in the end I'm really grateful. It has made us create music I could not be more in love with."

Country trio Rascal Flatts [ tickets ] is getting comfortable atop The Billboard 200 album chart, spending its third straight week at No. 1 with its new set, "Me and My Gang."

The hits compilation "NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 21" creeps up one place to the No. 2 slot, while Disney's "High School Musical" soundtrack climbs two rungs to No. 3.

Toby Keith [ tickets ]'s "White Trash With Money" falls two places to No. 4, and T.I. [ tickets ]'s "King" remains at No. 5.

Howie Day [ tickets ] reportedly has been sentenced to a year of probation in connection with a charge of interfering with a flight crew on an American Airlines flight in December.

According to an Associated Press story, prosecutors argued that the pop singer became verbally abusive to the flight crew, smoked a cigarette and kicked the back of chairs.

Day's attorney, meanwhile, contended that Day didn't smoke, and that his argument was with a passenger, not a member of the flight crew. The attorney said that Day had taken a sleeping pill to fall asleep on the flight, and followed it with two alcoholic drinks.

Among the conditions of his probation, Day must write letters of apology to American Airlines, as well as the passengers, cabin crew and flight crew aboard the flight.