Album Sweep: February 8, 2014 - Part Two...

It's time for round two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as always, I've included highlighted links to buy anything when available...

Arriving at #56 is Now That's What I Call Country Ballads 2, the second collection of slower country hits (though some of these are questionably labeled "ballads"). A-listers Luke Bryan, The Band Perry, and Keith Urban among others are represented...

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Hip Hop rappers and musicians Evidence and The Alchemist collaborate at #60 with Lord Steppington...

The club compilation Ultra Dance 15 shimmies in at #66. It contains 24 tracks from artists like Lana Del Rey, Capital Cities and Robin Thicke as well as dancefloor kings like Hardwell and Kaskade...

Seattle indie-rocker Damien Jurado drops in at #101 with Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, his eleventh album and first to make the chart...

"Psychobilly" rock trio Reverend Horton Heat return at #111 with their eleventh album and first in five years, REV. With a cult following, they have only made the top 200 three times, with this their highest as yet...

German heavy-metal veterans the Scorpions are back with their second live album to make the chart, MTV Unplugged at #113.Their last, World Wide Live at the peak of their American success in 1985, made it to #17...

Chicano power-rock trio Los Lonely Boys come in at #120 with Revelation, their eighth full-length effort. They have sent two albums to the top-ten, with Sacred going to #2 in 2006...

Christian metal act Nine Lashes from Birmingham, Alabama land their first charting album at #121 with From Water To War...

Metalcore band Throwdown thunder in at #142 with their lucky seventh release and first to make the top 200, Intolerance...

Meanwhile, another metalcore act, Ice Nine Kills from Boston, enter at #153 with The Predator Becomes The Prey...

The Mexican music compilation Las Bandas Romanticas de America 2014 comes in at #175...

The final entry of the week at #199 is the soundtrack to the film Despicable Me 2. It was released back in June of 2013 when the movie was in theaters, but just is getting traction thanks to Pharrell's Oscar-nominated "Happy"...

That's all for the second half of the sweep...out of this dozen the three I would pick first are the Reverend Horton Heat, Los Lonely Boys, and the Scorpions...