Album Sweep: August 11, 2012 - Part One...

Hey folks, it's time for the first part of this week's "Album Sweep", where I sample the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top 200 chart.  This week the Zac Brown Band's Uncaged returns for a second week at the top.

The highest entry this weeks comes from the Gaslight Anthem, a classic bar-rock band from New Brunswick New Jersey, whose first release under Mercury Records, Handwritten, comes in at #3.

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Debuting at #4 is the electropop group Passion Pit, with their sophomore album, Gossamer...

Theatrical metal group Slipknot sees their greatest hits album, Antennas To Hell, come in at #18. It contains all six of their modern rock radio charting singles, and all but one of the ten that made the mainstream rock radio list...

Another hits set enters at #20. This time it's Jennifer Lopez, who after a couple false starts on making another album, puts out Dance Again...The Hits. It has all but one of her lead-artist top-10 singles (it's missing "I'm Gonna Be Alright"), and has her recent top-10 hit "On The Floor" and new song "Goin' In"...

Country duo Love And Theft's self-titled sophomore set arrives at #21, as their "Angel Eyes" reaches the country songs top-3...

At #24 is an iTunes exclusive of Beatles tracks titled Tomorrow Never Knows. It has fourteen songs, mostly album cuts with "Revolution" and "Paperback Writer" thrown in for good measure...

Canadian synthpop duo Purity Ring pop in at #32 with their debut, Shrines...

The soundtrack to the dance movie Step Up: Revolution debuts at #59. It features songs from Timbaland, the Far East Movement, Eva Simons, M.I.A., Skylar Grey, Fergie, and more...

Recent Teen Choice nominee for best Web Star Ryan Beatty serves up his Because of You EP at #94...

That's it for this half...out of these I would recommend the Gaslight Anthem, Passion Pit, and the Step Up Revolution soundtrack....stay tuned for tomorrow's second half, with an Olympic-sized set and a flower powered compilation. Cheers!