Mariah Carey Tops The Charts, Sells 463K Discs In First Week

Predicted to sell nearly half a million records with her latest release, mega songstress Mariah Carey breaks a personal first-week sales record (April 23).

E=MC2, Mariah's sixth No. 1 album, moved 463,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

HitsDailyDouble projected Carey's latest would sell over 500,000 copies in its first week. Just shy, the album's debut still marked Mimi's biggest sales week ever. She also takes the prize for highest sales week of the year.

With Carey's last album, The Emancipation of Mimi, also topping the charts in its debut week, Mariah is now flush with Madonna and Janet Jackson for the second most No. 1 albums among female artists, according to Billboard with six. Barbra Streisand gives the ladies something to strive for with eight No. 1 albums.

These new feats come after Mariah has already took the King's crown, topping Elvis Presley's record for hit records and making Billboard chart history.

Brand new Brit sensation Leona Lewis is also making history.

Lewis is the first debut album by a solo British-born artist to enter the chart at the top spot and Lewis is only the second British-born solo female to have a chart-topping album. Olivia Newton-John was the first.

Spirit slipped to the No. 2 spot this week though, selling 94,842 copies for a total of 300,232 discs sold in her two weeks on the charts.

Stay tuned for a full breakdown of the Billboard 200 tomorrow on's Hip-Hop and R&B Charts column.