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

It's time for part two of this week's "catch-up" album sweep sampling the new records spending their first week on the Top 200 albums chart in Billboard magazine, with links to buy anything to see - support the music!

Arriving at #52 is blues-rock legend Joe Bonamassa with An Acoustic Evening At The Vienna Opera House, his sixth live set (the second live one to make the chart)...

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Crystal Bowersox, who was wrongfully beaten on American Idol by meathead Lee Dewyze on the only season I ever watched of the show, enters at #71 with her second post-show album, All That For This. Her first, Farmer's Daughter, reached #28 in 2010..

Lo-Fi act Wavves score their second charting album at #81 with Afraid Of Heights.

Bergen Country post-hardcore band Senses Fail return at #84 with Renacer...

Brooklyn rapper Papoose's first official release The Nacirema Dream climbs in the chart at #97...(NSFW)

Another rap act, Ces Cru, are at #98 with Constant Energy Struggles...(NSFW)

Semi-Christian metalcore group The Color Morale enter at #106 with Know Hope, their first to make the big chart...

The other Idol runner-up to debut this week, David Archuleta, is currently on his Mormon mission, but a stocked up bounty of recordings let's No Matter How Far come in at #110. It's his fifth set to make the chart...

Mexican singer Gerardo Oritz swings in at #115 with Sold Out: En Vivo Desde El NOKIA Theatre L.A. Live...

Groundbreaking Christian metal band Stryper was the first big religious rock breakout act in the 80s (even I have a couple of their albums), and Second Coming returns them to the chart at #117. They had three consecutive top-40 albums between 1986 and 1990...This set is re-recorded versions of their best-known songs...

Massachusetts alt-rock group A Rocket To The Moon are back at #136 with their second release, Wild & Free...

Pop/rock group Cartel are at #141 with their fourth album Collider. In 2007, their self-titled sophomore effort made the top-20...

British metal icons Iron Maiden come on the chart again at #148 with the original 1994 release Maiden England '88, which was first a non-charting VHS/CD combo...

Gospel legend Shirley Caesar unbelievably has her first album make the Billboard top 200 as Good God is in at #168.

Another long-standing heavy metal/thrash act, Suicidal Tendencies, returns at #187 with 13, their 9th studio album...(NSFW)

Thanks to a deep-discount sale at Amazon, Aretha Franklin's already-platinum 1994 collection The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin, The 60's makes its first week on the chart at #189...

The final debut of the week at #190 is the Grammy-nominated Christian pop album Black & White by Royal Tailor...

That's a wrap for part two....out of these the three I'd pick first are the Crystal Bowersox, Wavves, and Rocket To The Moon sets...

Tomorrow I'm back on track with another Song of the Day and my top-100 songs for the week. Good night!