This taken from the billboard website:

“The Diary of Alicia Keys” gives the young R&B sensation her second No. 1 debut on The Billboard 200. The only newcomer in the top-10 this week, the J Records album sold 618,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, to take the top spot. That’s the third highest opening week of the calendar year and more than double the best sales week of Keys’ first effort, “Songs in A Minor.”

“Songs in A Minor” bowed at No. 1 with 236,000 copies in summer 2001, and scored its best week during that year’s holiday season, when it moved 241,000 copies. Two years and five Grammy Awards later, the album has sold 5.6 million copies.

The new album was preceded by a flurry of television appearances, including heavy exposure on BET and MTV and two performances last week on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” The album’s first single, “You Don’t Know My Name,” is a top-5 track on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart and a top-15 title on the Hot 100.