Album Sweep June 30, 2012 part 2....

Now for part-two of this week's Album Sweep of the new sets hitting this week's Billboard magazine Top 200 albums chart.

At #46 is Minneapolis indie-rock group Motion City Soundtrack with their fifth full-length album, Go...

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Country newcomers Edens Edge see their self-titled debut full-length come in at #52...

British electronica act Hot Chip score their first album on the top half of the album chart at #62 with In Our Heads...This video wins the week....

Veteran folk/country singer Mary-Chapin Carpenter arrives at #72 with her 11th studio album, Ashes And Roses...

Stevie Stone, protege of rapper Tech N9ne, has his first album at #78 with Rollin' Stone...

The big winner of this year's Tony Awards was the musical Once, based on the indie movie, and the original cast album, which was offered at Amazon for 5$, comes in at #92....

Alt-country artist Colt Ford's Mud Digger collection sees it's third volume of country/rap hybrids come in at #94. It includes cameos from Bubba Sparxx, Lo Cash Cowboys, The Lacs, former Trick Pony Ira Dean, and more..

Jazz musician Brian Culbertson has his latest set, Dreams, come on to the big chart at #105 and is the country's biggest jazz album this week...

New Brunswick, New Jersey's Bouncing Souls' Comet rockets in at #110...

Pat Metheny's Unity Band project, featuring sidemen Chris Potter on sax, bassist Ben Williams, and Antonio Sanchez at the drums, debuts at #146 as they debut at #2 behind Brian Culbertson on the jazz chart...

In the wake of disco legend Donna Summer's death, as record stores restock on her music, The Best Of Donna Summer: 20th Century Masters:  The Millenium Collection has its first week on the Billboard 200 at #171. It's an odd collection - at only eleven songs it's mostly made of more obscure cuts than a regular hits CD would have, but it does manage to have three top-10 pop hits - "Heaven Knows", "The Wanderer", and the sublime "This Time I Know It's For Real"...

R&B veteran Bobby Womack recently appears on the alternative band Gorillaz albums, and the exposure helps his latest, The Bravest Man In The Universe, make the British top-50 and the US Charts at #181...

It's surprising the Asian-American rap collective Far East Movement hadn't been able to carry the momentum of their debut album, which had the #1 hit "Like A G6" and top-10 "Rocketeer", as their single "Live My Life" just missed the top-20, even with Justin Bieber providing vocals, and their sophomore CD Dirty Bass coming in at #190, and hopefully will catch on, there's some good tracks on here...

and finally, at #197, is DJ Diplo with his Express Yourself EP....

That's it. For me, the Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Hot Chip, Once cast album, and Motion City Soundtrack sets are the best bets.