Album Sweep: November 15, 2014 - Part Two...

Part two of this week's extra-expanded "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their way on to the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy the new sets when available as well as some of the artists' older work...

R&B vocal group Jagged Edge return at #28 with JE Heartbreak II. The first JE Heartbreak album went to #8 in 2000, one of their five consecutive top-ten records...

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Another archival release from the Grateful Dead arrives on the chart as Dave's Picks Volume 12: Colgate University, Hamilton NY 11-4-77 comes in at #29...

Ohio rapper Stalley debuts at #35 with his first solo album Ohio. He's been a part of the three top-10 Self Made records from Maybach Music...

Another NOW franchise release, NOW! That's What I Call Disney 3, moves in at #39. Volume 2 has been the highest charting of the three, going to #27 earlier this year. This third set has selections from classics like Cinderella and The Jungle Book as well as newer Disney films like Frozen and Wreck It Ralph...

"Moombahcore" DJ and producer Dillon Francis places at #40 with his own first full-length release Money Sucks Friends Rule...

90s rock hitmaker turned country star Darius Rucker lands at #43 with his seasonal Home For The Holidays set. His last two studio albums, Charleston SC 1966 and True Believers, both came in at #2...

The briefly-resurrected pre-fab girl group Danity Kane arrives at #44 with DK3. The act originally put together by P Diddy for his Making The Band show, pared down to a trio including reality show fodder Aubrey O'Day, broke up again about this album release. Their first two albums, Danity Kane in 2006 and Welcome To The Dollhouse in 2008, both topped the albums chart in the U.S...

J.J. Hairston and Youthful Praise, a gospel choir from Connecticut, ascend to #45 with I See Victory. Two years ago they took After This to #35...

Texan "red dirt" country singer Wade Bowen enters at #47 with his self-titled seventh album. His last effort, The Given went just a little higher at #44 in 2012...

Swedish melodic death metal band At The Gates land their first charting album in the States with At War With Reality at #53. Their fifth album, the set went to #3 in their home country...

X Factor USA second-season finalists Emblem3 move in at #56 with their second EP, Forever Together. Their sole full-length release, Nothing To Lose, made it to #7 last year..

That's all for the second set of the new bunch...out of these eleven the three to look for first are the Wade Bowen, Dillon Francis, and the Disney collection...

I'll be back tomorrow with parts three and four...