Album Sweep: March 22, 2014 - Part Two...

Part two of this week's "album sweep" is at hand, with the latest records to reach the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy anything you see as well as some of the artists' other albums...

Coming in at #61 is New Zealand Christian "rap/rock" hybrid band Rapture Ruckus, with their EP Invader Volume 1, their first to make the American chart...

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Texas-style country singer Kevin Fowler lands at #66 with his seventh studio album How Country Are Ya?. It's his highest rank to date...

Alt-country duo Sundy Best debut at #70 with Bring Up The Sun....

Hard rock band Fuel returns at #77 with their first album in seven years and fifth studio effort Puppet Strings. They sent two albums to the top-20 with Natural Selection reaching #15 in 2003...

Irish alternative rock band Kodaline performed on American Idol recently, and their first album In A Perfect World debuts at #89...

San Diego-based deathcore act Carnifex score their first charting album as Die Without Hope comes in at #98...

Doing a complete 180 at #102 is gospel legends the Gaither Vocal Band with Hymns. In 2010 they went to #53 on the big chart with Greatly Blessed...

British alt-rock group Elbow are back at #109 with their sixth studio album The Take Off and Landing Of Everything. It ties their highest mark with 2008's The Seldom Seen Kid...

Lounge music act Pink Martini teams up with the Von Trapps (yes, the grandchildren of the Sound Of Music folks) with Dream a Little Dream. In 2010, they took their holiday set Joy To The World to #35 on this chart...

Christian singer/songwriter Jason Gray comes in at #141 with Love Will Have The Final Word. It's his first to make the "big" chart...

Brooklyn-based pop/punk band the Men drop in at #172 with Tomorrow's Hits. It comes in one notch lower than their last set, New Moon...

The out-of-this-world Japanese mashup of Asian J-pop and heavy metal, the group Babymetal, lands at #187 with their self-titled album, which is available on iTunes...

The final debut on the chart at #195 is from shoegazer act Nothing with Guilty Of Everything, their first album...

That's it for the second half of the bunch....out of this bakers dozen the three I would go for first are the Kodaline, Elbow, and Sundy Best sets...