Album Sweep: April 13, 2013 - Part One...

Hey gang, today instead of my usual 70s and 80s posts, I'm gonna catch up on last week's album chart, sampling the new records making Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart, as Justin Timberlake's 20/20/ Experience sticks around at #1 for a second week, taking it over a million in sales so far...(as always, I've included links to buy anything you see)...

The top debut at #2 is almost-dead rapper Lil' Wayne with I Am Not A Human Being II, selling over 200 thousand copies in its first week. Volume 1 topped the chart in 2010...(NSFW)

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Country star and Voice coach Blake Shelton returns at #3 with Based On A True Story, selling almost 200K last week.

Jumping in at #4 is the first top-10 album for Denver-based pop/rock group OneRepublic with their third set, Native...

Country veteran Alan Jackson's second gospel set, Precious Memories: Volume II arrives at #5. The first volume went to #4 in 2006...

My all-time favorite new wavers Depeche Mode are back at #6 with their 13th studio album Delta Machine. They topped the album charts twenty years ago with Songs Of Love and Devotion...

The sixth debut album in the top-10 this week i the return of the Strokes with their fifth full-length album Comedown Machine. Their last three all went to #4 on the chart...

Husband-and-wife country duo Thompson Square's sophomore album Just Feels Good comes in at #13. That's two rungs higher than their debut...

Atlanta metalheads Sevendust enter at #19 with their ninth studio set Black Out The Sun. It's their sixth consecutive top-20 album...

British singer Dido ends another five year stretch between albums as Girl Who Got Away comes in at #32. Her first two solo albums both went to #4...

The 35-track double CD Official 2013 Academy Of Country Music Awards 'ZinePak exclusive for Walmart chimes in at #38 this week. The $10 promo has songs from nominees from this past week's show, as well as a healthy dose of newcomers...

Riffing off the "Tenors" craze, gospel singer Fred Hammond's United Tenors: Hammond, Hollister, Roberson, Wilson brings the four stars together for one album, and it steps in at #39...

California pop-punk band The Story So Far's second album What You Don't See enters at #46...

That's it for part one...out of the highest dozen the three I would pick first are the Depeche Mode, Dido, and Thompson Square sets....

I'll be back with new stuff from an American Idol runner-up that should have won, another that's on a mission, Queens of Soul and Gospel, and more