Album Sweep: July 14, 2012 Part Two...

Hey everyone, it's time for the second part of this week's "album sweep" of the new records debuting on Billlboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart.

Coming in just under the top-half is American Idol alum Casey Abrams. He was the sixth-place finisher in the 10th season (the "Scotty McCreery" season), and last Christmas charted a duet with fellow Idol singer Haley Reinhart on "Baby It's Cold Outside" which made the adult-contemporary top-40. His debut self-titled album on Concord Records debuts at #101, and its definitely got a Jason Mraz vibe to it...

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Gospel pastor, actor on Tyler Perry's House Of Payne, and brother to BeBe and CeCe, Marvin Winans sees his second top-200 charting album with Marvin L Winans Presents: The Praise + Worship Experience at #115...

90s/00s alt-rockers Everclear, who had a modern rock #1 back in 1997 with "Everything To Everyone", are currently on tour with Sugar Ray, the Gin Blossoms, Lit, and Marcy Playground, and their first studio album in six years is in at #119, called Invisible Stars...

One rung under Everclear at #120 is Mexican superstar Marco Antonio Solis, with a live set recorded in the South American country of Argentina, called Una Noche de Luna: Mas En Vivo Desde Buenos Aires....Solis has had 10 #1 hits on the Latin Songs chart between 1996 and 2008...

Taking a cue from the old Jerky Boys albums, comedian Tommy Miles has his crank-call set Thomas Miles aka Nephew Tommy Presents: Prank Phone Calls Vol. 5: Church Folks Gotta Laugh Too...um, yeah...

Experimental rock group the Flaming Lips are back after three years with a collabortative work called The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, and it features since disparate cameos from Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Yoko Ono, Bon Iver, and, yes Ke$ha. Key-dollarsign-Ha! is on the first track "2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)" with rapper Biz Markie. Wow. The Heady folks are at #139...

The cast album from the Ricky Martin-starring production of the Broadway classic Evita is out, and it debuts up at #156...

Guitarist and studio legend Jerry Douglas arrives at #168 with his album Traveler, with help from Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, Eric Clapton, Marc Cohn, Keb Mo', and Alison Krauss & Union Station...

Popping in at #178 is a Walmart-exclusive compilation of Bob Dylan, Super Hits, that includes ten of his most known tracks, including "Blowing In The Wind", "Like A Rolling Stone", and "Tangled Up In Blue". It's crazy short, but for the ultra-casual fan of Dylan this is pretty much on-point.

All the girls (and a bunch of the gay boys) went to see Magic Mike last weekend, and the soundtrack, with cuts by Foreigner, Joe Tex, and a sleazy remake of "It's Raining Men", debuts at #193...

and finally, Puerto Rican salsa group N'Kiabe show up at #198 with La Salsa Vive: Salsa Lives...

To recommend three, I'd go with the Evita cast album, Jerry Douglas' set, and N'Klabe's salsa goodness...

Up later today, my "robbed hit of the week"...