Album Sweep: October 25, 2014 - Part Two...

Part two of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their first appearance on this week's 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 any of the new sets, as well as some of the artists' other major work. But if you can, get down to an indie record store and show some love...

Coming in at #54 is the soundtrack to the new Nicholas Sparks book-to-film adaptation The Best Of Me. The set is mostly country artists with new material, including Lady Antebellum, Kacey Musgraves, and Colbie Caillat...

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NerhuvianDOOM, a collaborative effort of rappers MF Doom and Bishop Nehru, enters at #59 with their self-titled album...

Australian-born singer/songwriter Betty Who lands at #68 with her first full-length album, Take Me When You Go. Earlier this year her Slow Dancing EP came in at #57...

Post-dubstep artist Aaron Jerome, who records and remixes under the moniker SUBTRKT, is in with his second full-length effort Wonder Where We Land. It's his first to make the big chart..

Long Beach rapper Vince Staples comes in at #90 with his Hell Can Wait EP...

Christian rap artist Canon ascends to #101 with his Loose Canon Vol 2...It's his first to make the top 200..

The third member of the Braxton family to have a solo album on the chart is Traci, with her first album Crash & Burn which enters at #108...

New York pop/punk band State Champs arrive at #112 with their EP The Acoustic Things...

Husband and wife banjo masters Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn move in at #118 with their self-titled project...

The Texas Hippie Coalition, a heavy metal band from the northeast of that state, rock in at #119 with their third album for Carved Records, Ride On...

Veteran norteño act Los Tigres del Norte, based now out of San Jose, California, enter at #130 with Realidades. It's their eighteenth to make the Top 200 in the U.S.; though none have made the top-40 yet, La Granja in 2009 came close peaking at #45...

Seattle indie-rockers Minus The Bear climb in at #144 with Lost Loves, an EP or rare unreleased songs. Their last studio album, Infinity Overhead, became their first top-40 set in 2012...

Legendary British guitarist Johnny Marr, best known for his work with The Smiths, comes in at #153 with his second solo album Playland. His first, The Messenger, went to #86 last year...

DC-based noise-pop singer/songwriter Mary Timony's project Ex Hex puts an Rips on the chart at #170...

British pop/soul singer Paloma Faith arrives at #176 with her third album A Perfect Contradiction. Her last, Fall To Grace, came in at #170. Both sets went to #2 on the British albums chart...

The final new entry of the week at #200 belongs to indie-rock band From Indian Lakes, whose third album Absent Sounds is their first to nick the chart..

That's it for the second half of the newbies...out of these sixteen the four to go for first are the Paloma Faith, Johnny Marr, Betty Who, and Ex Hex records...