Diddy back on top after nine years

Rap mogul Diddy is back at the top of the US album charts after hitting number one with his first album in five years.

Press Play is the Bad Boy Records boss' first number one album in America for nine years, selling 170,000 copies in its first week.

The last time Diddy was at the top was in 1997 when he was known as Puff Daddy - his No Way Out debut rocketed to number one with first-week sales of 561,000.

Meanwhile, goth-rockers Evanescence stay put at number two with The Open Door and teen pop icon Jo Jo debuts The High Road at number three on the new chart.

Other new entries in the Billboard top 10 are country singer Dierks Bentley's Long Trip Alone at five and former American Idol winner Ruben Studdard's new album The Return debuts at number eight.

Albums slipping down the top 10 include former chart-toppers from Justin Timberlake and Rod Wtewart and crooner Tony Bennet's compilation, Duets: An American Classic.