Album Sweep: July 28, 2012 Part One...

Hey folks, it's time for the first part of this week's "Album Sweep" of the latest records hitting Billboard magazine's Top 200 chart of the biggest sellers this week.

This week's big winner is country jam kings the Zac Brown Band, with their third studio album, Uncaged, who score their second #1...

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Entering at #2 is the much-hyped (and well-deserved) album by hip-hop artist Frank Ocean, with Channel Orange. To put in perspective how big this is for a newly-out of the closet R&B artist, Ocean sold more records this week than Usher did in his first week, and almost as much as Chris Brown did on his, without the CD being available in most stores and selling mostly through iTunes.

Old-school country bad-boy Hank Williams Jr. has the highest-charting album of his whole career this week as Old School New Rules debuts at #12...personally, though, he's gone off into Nugent-style wingnutville....

Christian metal rockers P.O.D. are back at #17 with their first album in four years, Murdered Love. The band had four consecutive top-10 albums in the 00's...

Alt-rap artist Aesop Rock has his best debut yet at #21 with Skelethon...

Brooklyn rockers the Dirty Projectors come on at #22 with Swing Lo Magellan...

and finally, System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian has his third album Harakiri debut at #29..

That's it for part one. Out of these I'd recommend the Frank Ocean, Serj Tankians, and Zac Brown's before anything else. Tomorrow I'll have part two, but later tonight I'll bring you the newest singles making the grade in Britain.