Album Sweep: July 12, 2014 - Part Two...

I'm ready to roll out the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making 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, along with some of the artists' other major work...

American Idol season-8 finalist Danny Gokey comes in at #40 with his second full-length album Hope In Front Of Me. His first, the country-radio promoted My Best Days, went to #4 in 2010...

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Sacramento-based post-hardcore band Slaves debut at #53 with their first album Through Art We Are All Equals. Lead singer Johnny Craig had a couple of charting albums with his former band Emarosa...

R&B singer Sebastian Mikael makes his first appearance on the chart at #61 with Speechless...

Hardcore act For All Those Sleeping score their highest rank with their third album Incomplete Me at #79...

Mexican singer Remmy Valenzuela enters at #98 with De Alumno A Maestro ("From Student to Master")...

PHOX, an indie-pop band from the Madison, Wisconsin suburbs, sees their self-titled debut arrive on the chart at #105...

Gospel singer Anita Wilson's sophomore effort, Vintage Worship, ascends to #110 this week...

Rapper Talib Kweli comes in at #114 with his sixth solo album Gravitas. In 2007 he almost topped the chart at #2 with Eardrum...

Banda Sinaloense MS De Sergio Lizarraga, a ranchera group from Mazatlan, Mexico, come in at #119 with No Me Pidas Perdon ("I Don't Ask For Forgiveness")...

Rapper K. Flay puts her first album Life As A Dog at #133....

"Hipster soul" artist How To Dress Well (aka Tom Krell) debuts at #145 with his third album "What Is This Heart?". It's his first on the "big" albums chart...

While Rhino Records' one-disc collection of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons' greatest hits moves up to #35 with the Jersey Boys movie release, their double-disc Definitive Pop Collection enters the chart at #159...

The final debut of the week belongs to pop-punk singer Jason Lancaster, former lead singer of the band Mayday Parade, with his first solo album As You Are at #182...

That's it for the second half of the new stuff...out of this baker's dozen the three you should check out first are the PHOX, Four Seasons, and How To Dress Well albums...