Album Sweep: September 8, 2012 - Part One...

It's time for the first part of this week's "Album Sweep", where we'll sample the new records making their way onto the weekly sales chart in Billboard Magazine.

The number one album and top entry on this week's Top 200 Albums chart is by R&B singer/songwriter Trey Songz, with his fifth album, Chapter V. Even though it sold over 100,000 less copies than his last set, this is Trey's first chart topping album..

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At #4 is Miami producer/rapper/radio jock/mogul DJ Khaled with his sixth studio album, Kiss The Ring. Khaled, probably the most known Palestinian-American around, now has four top-10 album credits to his name..

Most people know one-man-act Owl City from his single "Fireflies", but in actuality he has his third consecutive top-10 album this week as The Midsummer Station comes in at #7...

Florida-based Christian Rock outfit Tenth Avenue North score their first top-10 record out of three tries at #9 with their latest, The Struggle...

Nashville-born country singer Dustin Lynch just got himself a top-10 single on the genre chart with "Cowboys and Angels", and his self-titled debut album is the current top record in country music, and enters the big chart at #13...

Veteran southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd are still kicking, and even though their Republican Convention-tied concert in Tampa, Florida was cancelled by Hurricane Isaac, they can take solace in their new album, Last Of A Dying Breed, coming in at #14, their highest rank for a studio album since 1977's Street Survivors (their biggest album ever)...

Roots-rock group Dispatch see their first full-length studio album in a dozen years, Circles Around The Sun, pop in at #24. After reuniting in 2011, their self-titled EP made the top half of the albums chart.

British indie-rockers the Bloc Party have seen all four of their albums make the top-10 in their homeland, and in America, their latest, appropriately titled Four, is their third top-40 record at #36. Lead singer Kele Okereke came out in 2010, and is an awesome musician and vocalist...

Another band from England, the glam-rock outfit The Darkness, were one of my really guilty pleasures in 2003 with their crazy fun album Permission To Land. The original lineup is back for their third effort, Hot Cakes, at #43. It's also a top-5 record in the UK...

Brooklyn experimental rock group Yeasayer score their second Top 200 album with Fragrant World at #44...

Singer and all-around hunk Dierks Bentley's current full-length album, Home, was the fourth of his #1 country albums, and in the meantime, he's released a five-song iTunes exclusive EP Country & Cold Cans that debuts at #54. It contains the radio edit of his current single, "Tip It On Back"...

Well that takes care of the first half of the chart, out of these there's a lot of good music out, and my personal picks are the Bloc Party, Dispatch, and Darkness sets.

Stay tuned later on tonight for the best of Britain...