Album Sweep: June 14, 2014 - Part One...
It's time to rev up the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the songs making the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. As always, I've included highlighted links to pick up anything you see and some of the artists' other big work, but if you can, please stop by an indie record store, it'll do you good...
After selling a so-far high for the year in first week sales, Coldplay manages to stay put as the best-selling album of the week for Ghost Stories with about 83,000 copies sold in its second....
Well, the good news is that Mariah Carey's new album, Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse, is the best selling new album on the chart. However, with a relatively modest amount of 58 thousand sold, it enters at #3 this week (behind Coldplay and country hunk Brantley Gilbert). She's previously had six albums reach #1 out of her eleven non-seasonal studio albums, so it's not like this is a total failure in respect to how albums have been selling lately, and there's been a lot of articles written giving reasons for the fall-off in numbers, but I'd add the fact that her crazy-ass rabid fans add a punch to the "ick" factor. Add the repeated release delays, and a scattershot promotion, and it was kind of inevitable. She's still got the chops, she kind of needs the songs again (someone steal them back from Ariana Grande already). Mariah's last time at #1 was back in 2008 with E=MC2...
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On the other end of the age spectrum is teenager Austin Mahone, whose debut American EP The Secret comes in at #5. It seems like there's a lot of money sloshing around trying to get him to "happen"...
Christian-based alternative pop artist Crowder ascends to #9 with his first album apart from his David Crowder Band, Neon Steeple. His former act's last studio album, Give Us Rest, went to #2 in 2012...
British pop singer Cher Lloyd returns at #12 with her sophomore effort Sorry I'm Late. Her debut, Sticks + Stones, made the top-10 at #9 in 2011...
Norwegian electronia duo Royksopp teams up with Swedish singer Robyn at #14 for the EP Do It Again. The three will be touring this year together. Previously Royksopp has only been on the US album chart once before, with Junior which made it to #126 in 2009, which coincidentally contains a track with Robyn, while the latter almost nicked the top-40 in the States with Body Talk Pt. 2 at #41 a year later...
Christian rap artist Tedashii arrives at #17 with his fourth solo album Below Paradise. It's his first to make the top-40...
Indie-pop singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten also scores her first top-40 album with Are We There which moves in at #25. She's a native of Clinton, New Jersey...
The latest compilation from the iconic glam-rock band Kiss, Kiss 40, celebrates their so-titled number of years in the business with one track from each of their 39 albums plus one previously unreleased song. It pops in at...#30. Five of their previous hits collections have made the albums chart, with 1988's Smashes, Thrashes and Hits making it to #21...
Industrial metal band Powerman 5000 enter at #63 with their eighth studio album (and first in five years), Builders Of The Future. Only lead vocalist Michael Cummings (aka Spider One) remains from the original 1991 lineup. The act has had two top-40 albums, with Transform reaching #27 in 2003...
Another rock act with one remaining founding member also comes in at #68. This time it's Lousiana sludge metal band Crowbar, led by Kirk Windstein, with Symmetry In Black. It's the act's first to hit the big chart...
Buffalo-based jam band moe. returns at #69 with No Guts, No Glory, their eleventh studio release. It's the first out of four tries to make the top half of the chart since their debut in 1992...
That's itfor the first half of the new bunch....out of this dozen the three I would choose first are the Royksopp/Robyn, Sharon Van Etten, and moe. albums...
I'll be back tomorrow with part two! Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you've discovered something new...
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