Album Sweep: November 9, 2013 - Part One...
I'm ready and willing to kick off the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart. As always, I've included links to buy anything you see, but if you can, stop by an indie record store (like I did today, Princeton Record Exchange rocks)..
The top-selling album this week is the second #1 set from Katy Perry, who sells a bit under 300 thousand of Prism in its first week. Her last album, Teenage Dream, sold under 200K in its first week...
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X Factor third-place finalists Fifth Harmony debut at #6 with their Better Together EP. The singer who won that season, Tate Stevens, saw his self-titled first album come in at #18....
DJ, producer, and radio star DJ Khaled enters at #7 with his seventh album Suffering From Success. It's his fifth to make the top ten; his last effort, Kiss The Ring, has been his highest at #4...
Alternative rock band AFI (or "A Fire Inside") arrives at #9 with their ninth studio album Burials, their third to make the top ten. In 2006 they topped the chart with Decemberunderground...
Tori Kelly, who appeared on American Idol back in 2010, and since then has been picked up by Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun. Her new EP Foreword jumps in at #16...
Iconic British heavy metal band Motorhead finally land in the top 40 for the first time in the US with their 21st studio album Aftershock. Their first to reach the big chart was back in 1982 with Iron Fist, one of their two to make the top ten albums list in England...
Another veteran heavy metal act from England, Def Leppard, return at #24 with the live set Viva! Hysteria: Live At The Joint, Las Vegas. It's a double-disc set for the group that topped the albums chart with Hysteria back in 1987...
Mexican pop star Marco Antonio Solis comes in at #38 with Gracias Por Estar Acqui, his tenth studio set.
Meanwhile, Italian pop-opera tenor Andrea Bocelli enters at #40 with a distillation of his concert for PBS Love In Portofino. He has placed seven albums in the top ten, with both My Christmas from 2009 and Passione from this year peaking at #2...
Puerto Rican Latin pop singer Ednita Nazario comes in at #44 with her 23rd album El Corazon Decide. She's had one top 40 effort, Soy, in 2009...
Well, last week I heralded in the first of the Christmas albums to make the chart, and this week sees two more holiday debuts. The first at #55 is Italian operatic pop trio Il Volo with Buon Natale: The Christmas Album. Their self-titled debut went to #10 in 2010...
..and at #63 are classical crossover YouTube stars the Piano Guys with A Family Christmas. Their Piano Guys 2 set became their first top-40 album earlier this year...
That does it for this first part....out of these thirteen the three I would recommend first are the Andrea Bocelli, Katy Perry, and AFI albums....
I'll return tomorrow with more from a Irish rock legend with an expanded version of a classic album, a fave of mine goes bravely live, a disco queen gets another mix, and more..
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