( CNN ) -- Madonna scored her eighth number-one on the Billboard Top 200 album chart with her latest release , `` MDNA . '' According to Nielsen SoundScan , the 53-year-old pop icon sold 359,000 units , giving her the biggest album debut of 2012 . This also marks the Material Girl 's fifth consecutive studio album to reach the top of the charts . Billboard 's Keith Caulfied says the only female with more number-one albums is Barbra Streisand with nine . `` MDNA '' was released March 26 to reviews that seemed to range from lukewarm to enthusiastic , especially from dance music aficionados . A number of tracks seem to deal with her well-publicized divorce from director Guy Ritchie in 2008 after seven years of marriage . Although Madonna showcased her first single , `` Give Me All Your Luvin ' '' in a slicky-produced halftime show at the Super Bowl in February , she 's kept a low profile in the weeks leading up to the album 's release . She made a brief surprise visit to Miami 's Ultra Festival on March 24 . The only interview she gave in support of `` MDNA '' was a live Facebook chat with Jimmy Fallon . But album sales did receive an additional boost by fans who bought tickets to her upcoming world tour , which kicks off May 29 with two shows in Tel Aviv , Israel . Ticket-buyers were given an option to purchase the album in a bundle with their concert tickets . These album sales were folded into the SoundScan tally . By contrast , veteran pop star Lionel Richie landed at number-two on this week 's Billboard Top 200 with his new album , `` Tuskegee , '' which was heavily promoted on television and sold 199,000 units . That figure is certainly nothing to sneeze at -- it 's Richie 's highest-charting record since he released `` Dancing on the Ceiling '' in 1986 . `` Tuskegee '' remakes 13 of his greatest hits with such country superstars as Shania Twain , Blake Shelton and Kenny Chesney .
` ` MDNA '' is Jackson 's fifth consecutive studio album to top the charts . The decade - old pop icon 's album sold 359,000 copies . Lionel Richie was at number - one on Billboard 's Top 200 with his new ` ` Tuskegee ''