Album Sweep: May 4, 2013 - Part One...

Hey gang, part one of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart this week. As always I've included links to buy anything you see...

The top selling album of the week is alt-rock heroes Fall Out Boy, who grab their second #1 CD (after 2007's Infinity On High) with the ambitious Save Rock And Roll which sold over 150 thousand in its first week...(NSFW on that third one)

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Fall Out Boy's competition for the top spot, rapper Kid Cudi, ends up in the runner-up spot with over 130K sold of his third official album Indicud. The second volume of his Man On The Moon set peaked at #3 n 2010...

Critics' fave the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have their first top-10 album as Mosquito enters at #5, no doubt helped by their fanbase and Amazon's 5$ sale. Before this, their best was Show Your Bones which went to #11 in 2006...

Christian rapper Andy Mineo debuts on the chart at #11 with his first set Heroes For Sale.

Stage and vocal recording legend Sarah Brightman returns at #17 with her eleventh album Dreamchaser. It's her third to make the top-20 - Symphony reached #13 in 2008...

British X Factor runner-up Olly Murs has since become one of the biggest acts ever to emerge from the show, and now his debut American album, which includes material from his UK sets, called Right Place Right Time, comes in at #19...

experimental-pop band and cell-phone shills the Flaming Lips arrive at #21 with The Terror, their thirteenth record. In 2009, they took Embryonic to #8 in the US...


One man act Iron And Wine comes in at #26 with his fifth regular album Ghost On Ghost. His last, Kiss Each Other Clean, reached #6 in 2011...

Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah enters at #27 with his newest, Adrian Young Presents: Twelve Reasons To Die. The rapper has had four of his solo albums go to the top-10, with his first Ironman reaching #2 in 1996...(NSFW)

Swedish "doom metal" band Ghost B.C. get their first American hit as Infestissumam is at #28. No. just no.

One of the few live rap albums to make the chart, the Live In Concert EP collaboration between Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y debuts at #30. Both of Khalifa's major label albums, Rolling Papers and O.N.I.F.C., went to #2, while Curren$y's last set, The Stoned Immaculate, was his first top-10 at #8...

That does it for the first half of this week's album journey....out of these 11 the three I'd pick first are the Olly Murs, Fall Out Boy, and Sarah Brightman records....

I'll return tomorrow with part two including music from Major Lazer, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, and more...