Album Sweep: January 24, 2015...

It's time for this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the official Album Sales Chart in Billboard magazine this week, as Taylor Swift's 1989 spends a ninth non-consecutive week at #1, selling over 100,000 copies again. As usual, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets, along with some of the artists' other major work...

The top debut of the week at #4 is rap duo Rae Sremmurd (backwards for "drummers ear") with Sremmlife....

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Folk singer-songwriter Joshua Radin comes in at #25 with his sixth album Onward and Sideways. It's his fourth to make the top-40 and highest rank to date...

The cast of the TV "musidrama" Empire lands at #30 with its Music From The Pilot EP...

Berner, a rapper on Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang label, debuts at #35 with his 20 Lights EP...

Post-hardcore band I Prevail enter at #39 with their Heart vs. Mind EP...

Welsh alt-rock group Catfish and the Bottlemen arrive on these shores at #56 with The Balcony....

As they begin their final season (thank god), Glee: Season Six: Homecoming drops in at #80...

L.A. rapper Nipsey Hussle clocks in at #98 with his mixtape Mailbox Money...

The final debut of the week at #99 is a Starbucks exclusive Fascinating Gershwin: Landmark Performances from the Gershwin Songbook.

That's all for the new crop. Out of these nine the three to check out first are the Catfish and the Bottlemen, Joshua Radin, and I Prevail sets...