Album Sweep: March 30, 2013 - Part Two...

Welcome back to part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the new records reaching Billboard magazine's Top 200 albums chart this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if possible.

Creeping in at #92 this week is the first soundtrack EP for the wildly popular AMC series The Walking Dead. This a remix of the title theme as well as underground artists and a ringer in Of Monsters and Men, this set is a really brief snippet of the show's musical landscape.

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Gospel singer Jason Crabb charts his third album as Love Is Stronger comes in at #94.

Singer and actress Megan Hilty is one of the best things about Smash, and her new solo album It Happens All The Time arrives at #96...

Chicago reggae-tinged indie rock group Wild Belle see their debut album Isles debut on the chart at #113...

California alt-rock band The Airborne Toxic Event's third album is set to be released this spring, but in the meantime an EP titled The Secret arrives at #114. Their last full-length, All At Once, went to #17 in 2011...

Shooter Jennings returns with his outlaw country brand at #129 with The Other Life. His biggest set so far is 2007's The Wolf which reached #52.

Mexican band Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Bueno come in at #133 with Tu Amigo Nada Mas...

Venezuelan-American neo-folk singer Davendra Banhart enters at #139 with his eighth album Mala. It's his third to reach the chart...

Newcomer gospel singer Alexis Spight, who was seen on the BET Sunday Best singing competition, debuts at #153 with L.O.L. ....

The Starbucks exclusive My Last Mixtape collection, which includes tracks from the 90s from artists like Pavement, Liz Phair, Radiohead, and more, enters at #165...

Heavy Metal act Adrenaline Mob stomp in at #173 with their new EP, Coverta...

...and since what's a week without metalcore, Fit For A King screams in at #175 with Creation/Destruction...

The last album to spend its first week in the Top 200 is by far the most important. Seminal R&B/pop vocal group the Drifters were one of the most influential acts to help develop pop music, and their 2000 collection The All-Time Greatest Hits slips in at #199. It has ten classic hits from the group...

That does it for part two.....out of this the three I'd pick first are the Drifters, Megan Hilty, and Wild Belle sets....