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Neil Diamond Tops the Charts

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Famed singer scores first No. 1 album in U.S.

Neil Diamond scored his first No. 1 album in the U.S. this week as his Columbia disc Home Before Dark sold 146,000 in its debutframe. Album is Diamond's 15th to land in the top 10 and 46th to hit the top 200.

Diamond promoted the disc with a mentoring appearance and performance on “American Idol" and a surprise show at the Bitter End in New York that was streamed on a number of websites. He kicks off a 37-city North American tour on July 19 in St. Paul, Minn.

“Home" was one of seven debuts in the top 10; only one of last week's six top 10 rookies, Madonna's Hard Candy, remained in the single digits.

Toby Keith's 35 Biggest Hits (Show Dog Nashville) opened at No. 2 on sales of 103,000. It is his third album to hit No. 2.

Clay Aiken's On My Way Here (RCA/19 Recordings), his fourth album, sold 94,000 to open at No. 4. Aiken debuted songs on a “QVC Presents QSessions Live" event on April 28 and appeared on TV shows “Good Morning America," “The View," “Today" and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" during the week of release. Appearances on “Rachael Ray," “Jimmy Kimmel Live" and “Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" are scheduled for this week.

Gavin DeGraw's self-titled J Records release sold 66,000 copies in its opening session to hit No. 7. Disc is his first top 10 album and marks his biggest SoundScan week. Album was No. 1 in the digital sales for the frame.

Josh Groban's CD-DVD Awake Live (Warner Bros.) opened at No. 7 on sales of 66,000. Country singer Dierks Bentley's Greatest Hits/Every Mile a Memory (Capitol Nashville) sold 43,000 to open at No. 9.

International Latin superstar Luis Miguel saw 32,000 copies of Complices (Warner Latina) acquired by fans to give him his eighth No. 1 on the Latin chart and put him in the No. 10 spot on the pop chart.

Other top 50 debuts were Tye Tribbett's Stand Out (Columbia), selling 26,000 copies (No. 16); Tokio Hotel's Scream (Interscope), shouting out 16,000 (No. 39); and Blake Shelton's Pure BS, moving 14,000 (No. 49). Elvis Costello's Mofuku (Lost Highway), which was rush released on vinyl and then on CD May 6, sold 13,000 copies to open at No. 59.

Madonna's Hard Candy slid to No. 3, selling 94,000 copies to tumble 64%.

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