Album Sweep: April 20, 2013 - Part One...

It's time to start out this week's "album sweep" sampling the records spending their first week on the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. As always, I've included links to buy anything you see if you likey....

The top-selling album for the third week is Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience, as it shifts over 100 thousand units last week, approaching a million and a half in total sales.

The highest debut at #2 is the sophomore album from family country trio The Band Perry, with their excellent Rick Rubin-produced Pioneer, selling 129K last week. Their debut reached #4 back in 2010 and produced five top-20 country hits....

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Rapper Tyler, The Creator, leader of the Odd Future collective (which includes Grammy-winning Frank Ocean), scores his biggest album so far as Wolf comes in at #3. His last solo effort, Goblin, went to #5 in 2011...(NSFW)

The last act you'd expect as the "senior" member of this week's album top-10, Boy-to-Men band New Kids On The Block return at #6 with their seventh studio album 10 (which includes their greatest hits sets). The guys topped the album chart twice, in 1988 with Hangin' Tough and again in 1990 with Step By Step. This video features Artemis from It's Only Sunny In Philadelphia....

It isn't an album sweep without metalcore, and Massachusetts-based Killswitch Engage enter up in the top-10 at #7 with Disarm The Dissent. It matches the peak of their self-titled set from four years ago (their last release)...

And just under the top-10 at #11 is British metalcore act Bring Me The Horizon with their fourth studio album Sempiternal, which went to #3 in their home country. It's their second top-20 album in the US after There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... went to #17 in 2010...(NSFW)

Illinois punk-rockers Alkaline Trio are back with their ninth studio album My Shame Is True at #24. It's their fifth top-40 album - their took This Addiction to #11 in 2010...

The tribute compilation album The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver includes covers from alt-rock and folk heroes like Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews, Lucinda Williams and more, and it arrives on the chart at #37..

Christian metalcore band For Today are from Iowa, and their latest EP Prevailer enters at #47. Their last full-lengrh, Immortal, made it to #15 last year...

California indie-rock group Cold War Kids are in at #52 with their fourth album Dear Miss Lonelyhearts. Their last two, Loyalty To Loyalty and Mine Is Yours, both peaked at #21...

Rhode Island group The Dear Hunter enter at #57 with their fifth full-length effort, Migrant...

Tejano band Intocable debut at #58 with En Peligro de Extincion...

Austin-based neo-psychedelica group The Black Angels settle in at #64 with Indigo Meadow, their fourth full-length album. Their last one, Phosphone Dream, went to #52 in 2010...

That does it for the first half of this week's "sweep"...out of these dozen the three I'd recommend first are the Band Perry, New Kids On The Block, and the John Denver tribute sets...

I'll be back tomorrow with part two, with new music from Rilo Kiley, Gretchen Wilson, Justin Moore, and more...