Album Sweep: December 7, 2013 - Part One...

It's time to bring out the first half of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records making their appearance on this week's Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine, as Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP 2 album moves back up to #1 for a second non-consecutive week...(I've included links to buy anything when possible)...

Arriving at the #2 spot is heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch with The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 2. Their Volume 1 also reached #2 earlier this year...

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The soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire storms in at #5. The first movie's Songs From District 12 and Beyond topped the chart last year...

Daughtry returns at #6 with their fourth album Baptized. They went to #1 with their first two albums Daughtry and Leave This Town...

Rapper Yo Gotti lands at #7 with his second album and first to make the top ten, I Am....

The radio station Cities 97 from Minneapolis has been putting out fundraising charity albums for 25 years now, and Cities 97 Sampler: Live From Studio C: Vol. 25 chimes in at #10. The limited-edition double-CD set has performances from Capital Cities, Passenger, fun, and more. It's only available at Target locations in that area...

Well the time has come for The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, which arrives at #21. The (unfairly) derided band had topped the albums chart with All The Right Reasons in 2005...

 The various-artists concert album Eric Clapton Guitar Festival: Crossroads: Live MSG NY, April 2013 comes in at #25. The double-CD set includes performances from "Slow Hand" as well as Robert Cray, Vince Gill, and Earl Klugh. It's the first of Clapton's "Festivals" to benefit the Crossroads rehab center in Antigua...

Rapper Webbie is back at #27 with Savage Life 4. His first two sets went top ten with Savage Life 2 reaching #4 in 2008...

Canadian prog-rock heroes Rush enter at #33 with their Clockwork Angels Tour album. The studio album for Clockwork Angels went to #2 last year. This is their eighth live album to make the Top 200 chart; in 1981 their iconic Exit...Stage Left reached #10...


That's it for the first half of the new crop...out of these nine the three I would pick first are the Daughtry, The Hunger Games, and the Nickelback CDs (yes, that's right)....

I'll return tomorrow with the second half with an experimental rock giant, some Glee, and more...