Album Sweep: March 9, 2013 - Part One...

Hey gang, it's time to kick off this week's "album sweep" where I sample the new records spending their first week on the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. In another post-Grammy slow week, there are only 15 debuts, so I'll split them in two parts (part 2 will come tomorrow). And as usual, I've included links to buy anything online if available...

The top-selling record of the week continues to be the Grammy Album of the Year by Mumford & Sons, Babel, though with a really low figure, only shifting over 60 thousand last week.

The highest debut of the week is down at #20, and it's by a band that went top-10 with their last two releases. Hard rock act Buckcherry's Confessions is their sixth studio album, and eighth in total to reach the chart. In 2008 they took Black Butterfly to #8...(NSFW)

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Australian rocker Nick Cave scores his highest chart position and first top-40 album with his fifteenth studio set Push The Sky Away. The album went to #1 in his home country, neighboring New Zealand, and Holland and Denmark in Europe...(NSFW)

Another Australian act, indie-rockers Atlas Genius, arrive at #34 with their first full-length studio set, When It Was Now.

North Carolina-based Contemporary Christian group Elevation Worship enter at #41 with their second album Nothing Is Wasted.  It's the top-selling Christian album this week...

Irish world music collective Celtic Thunder sees their tenth album Mythology come in at #51. There's no clip available except this commercial. Boo!

..and the winner of the best album title of the week goes to Tool's Maynard Keenan James' alter-ego Puscifer with his EP at #57, Donkey Punch The Night. Both his full-length studio sets made the top-30...The video is unembedable, but you need to check it out here...

Colorado mostly-sibling act R5, whose member Riker plays one of the Warblers on Glee, jumps in at #69 with their EP Loud...

Alternative rock group Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors debut at #84 with their eighth and biggest set yet, Good Light.

That's it for this half....the three I would pick first are the Nick Cave, Buckcherry, and Atlas Genius sets...

I'll return tomorrow afternoon with part two... see you then!