Album Sweep: August 30, 2014 - Part Two...

I'm down for the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy the new stuff as well as some of the artists' other important work.

Underground hip-hop veterans Dilated Peoples return at #41 with their first album in eight years, Directors Of Photography. Back in 2001 they came in at #36 with their third effort Expansion Team...

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After the tragic death of comic legend Robin Williams, his most recent record, Weapons Of Self Destruction from 2010, re-enters the chart at #63 (four notches below where it peaked originally), while his 1986 album A Night At The Met makes its debut on the Top 200 at #69. Back in 1979 his first release Reality....What A Concept became one of the few comedy albums to reach the top-10 on this chart.

In the first half of this week's sweep we saw American Idol's latest champ, Caleb Johnson, come in with his first album at #24. Meanwhile, the eighth-season winner, Kris Allen, lands at #80 with his third post-win effort, Horizons. His first two made the top-40, with his self-titled major-label debut coming in at #11 in 2009...

Irish modern rock queen Sinead O'Connor is back at #83 with the assertive I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss, her tenth studio album. Her second effort, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got topped the albums chart in America in 1990...

Brooklyn-based rap duo the Underachievers claim the #86 with their first full-length album Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium...

Former Stray Cat Brian Setzer is back solo at #91 with Rockabilly Riot! All Original. His first album after leaving the Cats, The Knife Feels Like Justice, went to #45 in 1986...

Lucero, a country-punk band from Memphis, land at #93 with Live From Atlanta: November 22,23,24 2013. Back in 2012 they climbed to #44 with the studio set Women & Work...

Rahway, New Jersey native Eric Roberson moves in at #104 with The Box. Last year he was part of the United Tenors project that went to #39 on the albums chart...

Singer-songwriter Ryn Weaver debuts on the list at #105 with her EP Promises...

The final new entry of the week is a collection from Eric Clapton, Icon, which is in at #173. The legendary guitarist has had many retrospectives make the chart, with The History Of Eric Clapton reaching #6 way back in 1972. This two-CD set from 2011 has two dozen of his best-known songs from the 60s and 70s....

That's all for this half of the new crop....out of this ten the three I would recommend first are the Sinead O'Connor, Brian Setzer, and Lucero records (there's better Clapton collections out there...).