Album Sweep: April 27, 2013 - Part One...

Hey gang, it's time to kick off part one of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records popping in on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart for the first time. As always, I've included links to buy anything you see.

This week's big winner is the fourth studio album and first chart-topping album from emo-rock group Paramore, who went through radical lineup changes and emerge with a self-titled set that sold over 100,000 last week. Their last one, Brand New Eyes, came close, reaching #2 in 2009...

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Coming in at #2 is country singer and guitar wiz Brad Paisley, with his ninth album Wheelhouse. It's his fourth to reach the runner-up position, selling about 100K last week.

Country rocker Eric Church scores his second top-10 album as his first live set, Caught In The Act, arrives at #5. It follows his #1 album Chief from 2011...

Rapper Tyga also has his second top-10 effort with Hotel California at #7. His last, Careless World: Rise Of The Last King, reached #4 last year...(NSFW)

Danish heavy metal band Volbeat is the next big thing in hard rock, and their new album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies leaps on the chart at #9. It's only their second out of five studio albums to make the chart, and the other one, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, only went to #142, but was a slow burner that spun off three big rock hits...

Another hard rock group, Stone Sour, slip(knot)s in at #10 with House Of Gold & Bones: Part 2. Part 1 went to #7 at the end of last year. It's their fourth top-10 record so far; their Come What(ever) May went to #4 in 2006...

Industrial-metal supergroup Device, led by David Draiman of Disturbed and Geno Lenardo of Filter, puts their first self-titled album at #11. (NSFW)

British electronica artist James Blake's sophomore full-length album Overgrown makes a respectable start at #32...

 Los Angeles-based Americana/soul group Dawes see their third album Stories Don't End come in at #36...

Philly native Kurt Vile, who was a member of the band the War On Drugs, has his biggest album so far as Waking On A Pretty Daze debuts at #47.

 Swedish "dark ambient" act The Knife stick their fourth full-length album Shaking The Habitual at #52. It's their first to reach the US chart.

Smooth-jazz saxophonist Boney James slides in at #54 with The Beat...

Florida "blue-eyed" hiphop artist Jake Miller sends his second EP The Road Less Traveled to #55 on the chart...

That's it for the first half of the new crop - out of this baker's dozen the three I'd choose first are the Volbeat, James Blake, and Dawes sets.

I'll be back tomorrow with part two, with music from country singer Chuck Wicks, British fave Jake Bugg, 60s teen idol Paul Anka, and more...