Album Sweep: November 2, 2013 - Part Two...

I'm back with part two of this week's "album sweep", where I sample the records making their first appearance on Billboard's Top 200 Albums sales chart. As before, I've included highlighted links to buy anything when available - and you can check out part one by clicking here....

Well the biographical film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story premiered on VH1 on October 21st, and it became the channel's most-watched TV movie. To go along with it and the group's 20th anniversary in the music biz, 20 arrives on the chart at #72. The compilation has thirteen of their biggest hits along with a new track written by Ne-Yo. The group, which included the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, topped the albums chart in 1999 with FanMail...

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California thrash metal band Death Angel come in at #73 with The Dream Calls For Blood. It's their second to reach the chart and first to make the upper half..

The Game is back at #89 with his mixtape OKE: Deluxe Edition. Three of the rapper's regular releases, The Documentary, Doctor's Advocate, and The R.E.D. Album, topped the albums chart...

Seminal modern rock band Toad The Wet Sprocket are back at #97 with their first album in sixteen years, New Constellation. That last album, 1997's Coil, has been their highest rank when in peaked at #19...

Rob Bailey and the Hustle Standard debut at #101 with Beast...

There doesn't seem to be a month without a Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia release, and this week GarciaLive: Volume Three: Legion Of Mary: December  14-15, 1974 Northwest Tour from the Jerry Garcia Band arrives at #102...

New York indie band Cults are in at #114 with their second album Static. Their self-titled debut went to #52 in 2011...

Country singer/songwriter Will Hoge nabs his first hit with his album Never Give In at #129....

Brooklyn indie-rock singer/songwriter Kevin Devine crowdsourced two albums worth of material on Kickstarter, and both sets show up in the top 200...First up at #133 is Bubblegum...

..and at #143 is the other set Bulldozer...

In between those two albums at #136 is hard rock band Anberlin with their seventh album Devotion. Their last four albums made the top 20, with Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place reaching #9 in 2010...

Hardcore rock act Dayshell come in at #146 with their self-titled album...

Brooklyn's Lucius debut at #150 with their debut indie-rock set Wildewoman...

 Christian hip-hop worship act Canon arrive at #156 with Mad Haven...

DJ Jon Gooch's electro and dubstep project, Feed Me, has his first full-length record Calamari Tuesday enter at #162...

Guatemalan music star Ricardo Arjona jumps in at #171 with his Metamorfosis: En Vivo live set. In 2010 he went to #43 with Poquita Ropa...


Electro-pop veteran Gary Numan is back with a new album Splinter: Songs From A Broken Mind at #175. It's his first album to reach the chart in America in 32 years - in 1979 he went to #16 with The Pleasure Principle...

Heavy metal band Monster Magnet, from Red Bank, New Jersey, return at #188 with their latest set, Last Patrol. Back in 1998 they reached #97 with Powertrip...

Singer/songwriter Diane Birch slips in at #195 with her sophomore effort, Speak A Little Louder. Her first acclaimed album, Bible Belt, went to #87 in 2009...

The final debut of the week belongs to holiday perennial Mannheim Steamroller, who come in at #197 with Christmas Symphony II featuring members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The first installment went to #19 in 2011...


That's it for the second half of the new crop..out of these twenty the three I would recommend first are the Diane Birch, Lucius, and Gary Numan sets....