The album is the artist's seventh chart-topper, giving her the second-highest total among female artists -- only Barbra Streisand, with eight, has more.

The Warner Bros. set moved 280,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. After racing from No. 68 to No. 3 in April, the pop diva's single "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake gave Madonna her 37th top 10 hit -- the most of any artist in the rock era. Until now, she and Elvis Presley were tied with 36 apiece.

As a consequence, Mariah Carey's "E=MC2" (Island Def Jam) is dethroned to No. 2 after two weeks on top; the album moved 95,000 units, a 48 percent sales drop-off. Leona Lewis' "Spirit" (Syco/J) slips from No. 2 to No. 3 with 84,000 (a 12 percent slide).

Lyfe Jennings' Columbia album "Lyfe Change" starts with 80,000 at No. 4. His last set trumps this start, though: "The Phoenix" began at No. 2 with 136,000 in 2006.

Def Leppard scores its 11th consecutive top 20 album with the bow of "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge" (Island/UMe) at No. 5 with 55,000 units. The band started its top 20 streak on the Billboard 200 with 1983's "Pyromania," which peaked at No. 2. Since "Pyromania," every Def Leppard album has reached the top 20.

The Roots' ninth album, Def Jam set "Rising Down," enters at No. 6 with a 54,000-copy start. The hip-hop act's last release, 2006's "Game Theory," started at No. 9 with 61,000.

Portishead returns with its first studio album in more than 10 years. Bowing with 53,000 at No. 7, "Third" marks a new chart high for the U.K. act. Its last studio effort, 1997's "Portishead," debuted and peaked at No. 21.

Tom Petty side project Mudcrutch -- which was actually the precursor to Petty's career as a solo artist -- has a No. 8 start, its self-titled Reprise set selling 38,000 copies. Petty's last release, 2006's "Highway Companion," started at No. 4 with 112,000.

The multi-label compilation "Now 27" continues its decline from No. 6 to No. 9 with sales of 31,000, a 4 percent decrease.

The Wal-Mart exclusive set "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2" from Tim McGraw bows at No. 10 with 29,000. The two-CD set combines the singer's 2000 "Greatest Hits" with his 2006 "Greatest Hits Vol. 2: Reflected."

In addition to those seven new releases, 24 albums debut this week on the Billboard 200, including Steve Winwood's "Nine Lives" (Columbia, No. 12, 26,000), Carly Simon's "This Kind of Love" (Hear Music, No. 15, 23,000), Augustana's "Can't Love, Can't Hurt" (Epic, No. 21, 21,000), Lil Mama's "VYP: Voice of the Young People (Jive, No. 25, 19,000), Mindless Self Indulgence's "If" (The End Records, No. 27, 18,000) and Mana's "Arde El Cielo" (Warner Music Latina, No. 30, 17,000).

Album sales this week total 7.55 million units, a 10 percent rise from the previous week's sum and a 10.4 percent drop from the comparable week a year earlier.

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