Album Sweep: June 22, 2013 - Part One...

Hey gang, it's time to kick off the first half of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records spending their first week on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. As always, I've included links to buy anything if possible, but if you can, stop at an indie record store and show some love...

The top-selling record of the week is the first for hard rock group Queens Of The Stone Age, who sold just under a hundred thousand copies (91K to be exact) of their sixth studio album (and first in six years), ...Like Clockwork. They have previously only reached the top-10 once, with 2005's Lullabies To Paralyze, which went to #5.

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Post-hardcore band Sleeping With Sirens, from Orlando, Florida but hardly Disney-fied, come in at #3 with their third full-length album Feel. It follows last year's If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack which peaked at #17....(NSFW)

The third hard-rock entry in the top-10 is veteran speed-metal act Megadeth with their 14th studio set  Super Collider at #6. It's their sixth to make the top-10 - Countdown To Extinction went all the way to #2 in 1992....

Also arriving in the top-10 at #10 is Canadian alt-rock heroes Barenaked Ladies with Grinning Streak. It's their fourth to reach this level; their American breakthrough album Stunt got to #3 in 1998...

Another Canadian musician, Dallas Green, who records under the name City and Colour (a play on his name), pops in at #16 with his fourth record and second to reach the Top 200, The Hurry And The Harm...

Psychedelic rock outfit Portugal, The Man, from Wasilla, Alaska (yes, Palin-land), comes in at #28 with Evil Friends. It's their first to reach the top-40...

Country singer and tabloid fodder LeAnn Rimes comes back swinging with her latest album Spitfire at #36. She has topped the album chart twice in her career, both times in 1997 - with Unchained Melody - The Early Years and You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs. She's had a total of eight make the top-10 on the Top 200...

British electronica duo Disclosure take their debut album Settle, which topped the chart in their country, to the States at #38...

Arizona-based pop-punk band the Maine grab their third top-40 album as Forever Halloween enters at #39. They previously went to #16 with 2010's Black & White...

Industrial rock giants Filter return at #52 with their sixth studio album The Sun Comes Out Tonight. Two of their albums have made the top-40, with Title Of Record reaching #30 in 1999...

Christian rock group Building 429 are back with their 8th and highest-charting album We Won't Be Shaken at #53. It's their second to reach the top half of the chart...

This year's Vans Warped Tour '13: 2013 Tour Compilation pops in at #63. It has selections from The Wonder Years, Black Veil Brides, and the aforementioned Sleeping With Sirens...

Indie-pop duo Capital Cities arrive at #66 with their debut full-length album In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery.

That's it for the first half of the bunch....out of this baker's dozen there's a lot of quality stuff, and hard to choose just three, but the three I'd go with first are the Capital Cities, LeAnn Rimes, and Disclosure sets (though you really can't go wrong with any of them, well maybe the Megadeth pop makeover, but still)...

I'll be back tomorrow with part two, including new stuff from George Benson, Lonestar, and a few Broadway sets coming off of Tony night...