Album Sweep: September 7, 2013 - Part One...

Hey gang, it's time to kick off the first half of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records that reached the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the first time. As always, I've included links to buy anything when possible...

The top-selling album for a second week is Luke Bryan, who pushes another 150K+ records this week with Crash My Party.

Almost reaching that level but selling a little less that 150K is John Mayer with his sixth studio album Paradise Valley which comes in at #2. Three of John albums reached the top: Heavier Things (2003), Battle Studies (2009), and Born and Raised (2012)...

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Reigning at #3 is the collaborative album from three R&B vocal stars, Tyrese (the model), Ginuwine, and Tank. Their 3 Kings album under the TGT moniker is their first together; before that, Tyrese has had two prior top-10 albums, with 2011's Open Invitation reaching #9, Ginuwine placed four records in the top 10 with 2001's The Life going to #3, and Tank has racked up three solo top-10s, with his Sex, Love & Pain effort in 2007 doing better than them all at #2...

Parrothead King Jimmy Buffett returns after four years with his 29th studio album Songs From St. Somewhere at #4. This is his ninth top-10 album, he's only done better with his chart-topping country-tinged record License To Chill from 2004. Oh lord, this is definitely on my list of the worst songs of the year.

Rapper Earl Sweatshirt, who is part of the Odd Future collective that includes Frank Ocean and Tyler The Creator, debuts at #5 with his first official release Doris....

Darold Ferguson, a.k.a. ASAP Ferg, is from another rap team led by ASAP Rocky who went to #1 with his debut album. Now Ferg enters at #9 with his first, Trap Lord....

The husband and wife-led team of the Tedeschi Trucks Band won a Grammy with their first album together Revelator. Susan and Derek and the guys are back at #11 with the follow-up Made Up Mind...

Modern rock group Blue October score their fourth top-40 studio album with Sway at #13. Their last, Any Man In America, became their first top-10 set in 2011 at #8...

This week's serving of metalcore is doled out at #15 by Phoenix band Blessthefall with their fourth album Hollow Bodies....

Oklahoma singer/songwriter Ben Rector is in at #16 with his fifth full-length release, The Walking In Between....

The "trailer-country" rap-infused duo of the Lacs (short for "Loud Ass Crackers") get their first top-40 album with Keep It Redneck at #23...

Chicago-based progressive metal act Born Of Osiris comes in at #27 with their first to make the top-40, Tomorrow We Die Alive...

The young-adult fantasy movie The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones came in at #3 in the box office earnings chart last week, and its soundtrack featuring tracks from Zedd, Demi Lovato, and Ariana Grande arrives at #32 on the albums chart...

Country singer Charlie Worsham debuts at #64 with his first album Rubberband...

And entering at #68 is rapper August Alsina with Downtown: Life Under The Gun, an 8-track EP...

That's it for the first half of the crop. Out of these 14 the three I would pick first are the John Mayer. Blue October, and TGT sets....

I'll be back tomorrow with part two including music from a British band that had covered Britney, the forgotten American Idol, and some "Super" indie-rockers.