Briefly: Tool, Pearl Jam, Great White, Ne-Yo

With sales of about 550,000 copies, rockers Tool top the latest Billboard 200 album chart with "10,000 Days," their first new album since 2001's chart-topping set "Lateralus."

Pearl Jam's new, self-titled album enters the chart at No. 2, with about 279,000 copies sold, according to Billboard.

Making its chart debut at No. 3 is Mobb Deep's "Blood Money," while the soundtrack to Disney's "High School Musical" rises three notches to the No. 4 slot. Rounding out the Top 5 is Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang."

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A Providence, RI, judge sentenced former Great White tour manager Daniel Biechele to serve four years in prison for his part in a 2003 nightclub fire in which 100 people died.

Biechele pleaded guilty in February to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the case; he admitted to lighting the pyrotechnics that started the fire during a Great White concert.

The two owners of The Station nightclub, which burned to the ground, have pleaded not guilty to 200 counts of involuntary manslaughter (two counts for each person killed). They are accused of illegally installing a highly flammable soundproofing foam at the club.

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R&B singer Ne-Yo had planned to perform at Mercy High School in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, MI, but school officials reportedly have nixed the show due to the sexually explicit lyrics on his debut album.

The school's students won the concert in a radio-station sponsored seat-belt use contest, according to local news reports.

The radio station reportedly will reschedule the concert at the as-yet unnamed school that finished second in the contest.