Neil Diamond [ tickets ]--whose 40-plus-year career is in the midst of a renaissance, thanks largely to producer Rick Rubin--has landed his first No. 1 album with the Rubin-helmed "Home Before Dark."

Diamond's new set--his second with Rubin--sold about 146,000 copies during its first week in stores, more than enough to claim the No. 1 spot on The Billboard 200 chart. (Billboard bases its results on Nielsen SoundScan data).

Toby Keith [ tickets ]'s best-of set, "35 Biggest Hits," trails Diamond with sales of about 103,000 copies to make its debut at No. 2.

The aforementioned pair of debuts push Madonna [ tickets ]'s "Hard Candy," last week's No. 1, down to No. 3, while former "American Idol" contestant Clay Aiken [ tickets ] debuts at No. 4 with "On My Way Here," and Mariah Carey [ tickets ]'s "E=MC2" drops from No. 2 to No. 5.

Rounding out the Top 10 are Leona Lewis' "Spirit" at No. 6, Gavin DeGraw [ tickets ]'s self-titled sophomore set at No. 7, Josh Groban [ tickets ]'s live CD/DVD set "Awake Live" at No. 8, Dierks Bentley [ tickets ]'s "Greatest Hits" at No. 9 and Luis Miguel [ tickets ]'s "Complices" at No. 10.

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