Album Sweep: August 10, 2013 - Part One....

Hey gang, it's time to kick off the first part of this week's "album sweep", where I sample the new albums making the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. As always, I've included links to buy anything online if possible, but if you can, please stop on by an indie record store and support the small businessman!

This week's top-selling album belongs to former Disney star Selena Gomez, who sells just under 100 thousand copies of her first album without backing band "The Scene", Stars Dance. Previously, all three albums of hers with them made the top-10, with When The Sun Goes Down reaching #3 in 2011...

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Marc Anthony scores his highest debut with a Spanish-language album as his 3.0 arrives at #5. Only his 2002 set Mended has places higher (at #3), while he has had three of his non-English records make the main albums top-40...

This week's "metalcore" requirement is fulfilled at #8 by We Came As Romans from Michigan with their third album and first top-10, Tracing Back Roots...

The collaborative album Rich Gang with members of labels Young Money (Lil' Wayne and Nicki Minaj) and Cash Money (like Ace Hood and Mystikal) drops in at #9....(NSFW)

California-based indie-rock group Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros enter at #14 with their self-titled third full-length album. It follows their #5 biggest set Here from last year...

Classic rock and rollers the Rolling Stones place their eleventh live album on the top albums chart as their iTunes exclusive Hyde Park Live set comes in at #19. Five of them have made the top-10, with both Love You Live from 1977 and Still Life from 1982 making it to #5...

The Winery Dogs, a rock "supertrio" featuring hard rock's most respected living bassist, Billy Sheehan, debuts at #27 with their self-titled first album...

Australian post-hardcore act Hands Like Houses score their first top-40 album with their second effort, Unimagine....

That does it for the first half of the crop...out of these eight the three I'd recommend first are the Edward Sharpe, Marc Anthony, and Winery Kings albums...

I'll be back tomorrow with a folk collective that backed Madonna, an outlaw country great, and some film about blue things that aren't Avatars.