Album Sweep: March 29, 2014...
Hey gang, it's time for this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart. Since this week only 15 new sets debut, I'll cover it all in one shot. and as always I've included highlighted links to buy them as well as some of the artists' other work. Support the talent!
This week's biggest-selling album for a sixth non-consecutive week is the soundtrack to Frozen, selling just under 100,000 copies...
The top debut at #2 belongs to country A-lister Luke Bryan, with the sixth volume of his Spring Break EP series subtitled ...Like We Ain't Ever. The fifth, actually a full-length collection of songs from the previous four with a couple new songs, went to #1 last year...
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Alt-soul singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc, the voice behind Avicii's top-10 pop hit "Wake Me Up!", debuts at #4 with his third full-length album Lift Your Spirit. Last year his four-song EP Wake Me Up went to #32 (all four songs are on this set as well)...
Alternative reggae-rock band 311 return at #6 with their eleventh major-release studio album Stereolithic. Eight of those plus a hits set made the top ten; Uplifter made it to #3 in 2009...
Rap collective Young Money are also back at #7 with their third collection, Rise Of An Empire. Their first two came in two rungs down...
Country singer Sara Evans comes in at #9 with her seventh studio album Slow Me Down. Her last three plus a greatest hits record made the top-10, with A Real Fine Place peaking at #3 in 2005...
Neo-soul singer Ledisi enters at #14 with her seventh effort The Truth. Her last set, Pieces Of Me, became her first top-ten album in 2011...
The soundtrack to the sci-fi film
Hard rock "supergroup" KxM, including members of Korn, Kings' X, and Lynch Mob, enter at #31 with their self-titled first album together...
Colombian singer/songwriter Juanes returns at #36 with Loco De Amor. It's his third to make the "top-40" on the albums chart - in 2007 he went to #13 with La Vida...Es Un Ratico...
The latest edition of WOW Worship, called Lime for its color, ascends to #76....
Hillsong United's the white album remix album, a new thing for Christian music, debuted last week - now Jesus Culture gets in on the action at #97 with Reconstructed Volume 1...
Tennessee-based roots-rock band Dirty Guv'nah's come in at #107 with their fourth studio album Hearts On Fire....
The cast of the musical comedy show Glee are back at #122 with their Glee: The Music Season Five: City Of Angels EP...
Country music veteran Don Williams enters at #124 with Reflections. He first made this chart back in 1978 with Expressions (#161), and his biggest had been Yellow Moon which made it to #44 in 1983...
The last debut is from British metalcore act Architects UK as they drop in at #125 with Lost Forever//Lost Together, their first to make the US chart (this one made it to #16 on the British albums chart)...
That's all for this week...out of these fifteen the four I would go for first are the Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans, Dirty Guv'nah's, and the Divergent soundtrack...
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