We’re back to a hip hop free week on the Billboard 200 albums chart.  Or maybe it’s a shadow presence with Rick Rubin producing Neil Diamond’s first no. 1 album and Mariah Carey all hooked up with hip hop.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Neil Diamond – Home Before Dark
2. Toby Keith – 35 Biggest Hits
3. Madonna – Hard Candy
4. Clay Aiken – On My Way Here
5. Mariah Carey – E=MC2
6. Leona Lewis – Spirit
7. Gavin DeGraw – Gavin DeGraw
8. Josh Groban – Awake Live
9. Dierks Bentley – Greatest Hits: Every Mile a Memory
10. Luis Miguel – Complices