Album Sweep: July 13, 2013 - Part Two...

I'm back with round two 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 buy anything online when possible.

Arriving at #88 is British-born rapper Wrekonize (born Benjamin Miller), who is a member of the fusion group Mayday, with his second solo album The War Within.

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The late reggae great Bob Marley's Legend compilation is one of the biggest-selling albums in history, selling over fourteen million copies in the United States alone. Now, Legend Remixed comes on the chart at #89. During his career, he has placed one album in the top-10: 1976's Rastaman Vibration reached #8...

63-year-old Natalie Cole released her first foreign-language album En Espanol, and it enters the chart at #91. Cole topped the albums chart in 1991 with her tribute to her father, Unforgettable...

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..Texan pop-punkers Forever the Sickest Kids are back at #94 with their third effort J.A.C.K. Their last self-titled album made the top-40 in 2011...

Alicia Keys makes a humble debut at #108 with her VH1 Storytellers live album. All but one of her regular releases, including her Unplugged set, went to #1 (the other went to #2)...

The Starbucks exclusive Big Waves: Five Decades Of Surf Rock drifts in at #116. It includes selections from the Beach Boys, Duane Eddy the Ventures, and more...

Ohio rockers Hawthorne Heights are in at #118 with their fifth full-length album Zero. Back in 2006, their sophomore set If Only You Were Lonely went all the way to #3...

Te multi-artist live album Sergio George Presents: Salsa Giants enters at #126 with performances from Marc Anthony, Luis Enrique, and Tito Nieves..

The wildly successful soundtrack from the "glee-tastic" film Pitch Perfect went to #3 on the albums chart, and now Pitch Perfect: More From Pitch Perfect, an eight-track EP with the pop remix of the fluke hit "Cups", two film performances, and scattered songs heard in the background, comes on the chart at #139...

Singer/songwriter Willie Nile returns at #156 with his ninth album American Ride...

The Bosnian Rainbows, containing two members of the seminal experimental-rock group the Mars Volta, debut at #171 with their self-titled first album....

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..the faux-"hits" compilation Hits Of The 80s from Drew's Entertainment records somehow pops in at #182. I'm not even going there...

Denver-based Thrash metal band Havok are in at #186 with their third album Unnatural Selection...

Another Starbucks compilation Songs Of The Siren, with tracks from Feist, Cat Power, and Beth Orton...

Maryland reggae fusion band Ballyhoo! jump in at #189 with Pineapple Grenade! ....

Chicago indie-rockers Smith Westerns come in at #194 with their third album Soft Will. Their last, Dye It Blonde, peaked at #114 two years ago...

That will do for the second half of the new crop...out of these sixteen the three I'd go with first are the Songs of the Siren, Smith Westerns, and Ballyhoo! albums...