Album Sweep: May 25, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey folks, it's time to roll out the second half of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records spending their first week on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to Amazon to pick up anything you see...

Entering the chart at #42 is guitar ace Joe Satriani with his 14th studio album Unstoppable Momentum. Joe had three consecutive top-40 albums between 1987 and 1992, with The Extremist peaking the highest at #22...

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Brooklyn rap artist Talib Kweli returns at #48 with his fifth solo set Prisoner Of Conscious. In 2007 he went all the way to #2 with Eardrum...

There's a rash of boyband reunions lately, with New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys getting in the action. Now 98 Degrees are back with their fifth album 2.0 at #65. Their last album Revelation in 2000 was their biggest so far reaching #2...

British post-punk act Savages debut at #70 with their first album Silence Yourself...

Singer/songwriter Joshua Radin enters at #73 with Wax Wings. His last three sets reached the top-40 on the albums chart, with 2010's The Rock and The Tide going to #31...

Christian pop vocalist Steve Hare comes in at #92 with Heart Like Your Own...

Alt-hip-hop artist Aesop Rock and folk singer Kimya Dawson have come together for a project called The Uncluded and they debut at #93 with Hokey Fright...

Country singer Craig Campbell arrives at #96 with his sophomore set Never Regret. His first, Craig Campbell, reached #65 in 2011...

Rapper Micheal Seander, or as he like to be called, "Mike Stud", debuts at #109 with his debut album Relief.

The Christian pop music compilation To Mom With Love arrived for Mother's Day in time to enter the chart at #111. It includes tracks by Casting Crowns and Third Day...

Christian rapper Bizzle comes in at #116 with The Good Fight, his second full-length album...

Texan Tejano band Duelo cross over to the main chart at #134 with Libre Por Naturaleza ("Free By Nature")...

 Veteran ranchero and bolero singer Vicente Fernandez also comes in at #151 with Hoy...

 The convent group of Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles descend on the chart at #161 with Angels and Saints at Epheseus, their second to reach the chart..

Indie rocker Mikal Cronin's second album MCII arrives on the chart at #174...

The final entry of the week at #198 is alt-country "rapper" Lenny Cooper with Mud Dynasty....oh lord.

That's a wrap on part two...Out of these the three I'd pick first are the 98 Degrees, Joshua Radin, and Craig Campbell sets...