Album Sweep: February 14, 2015 - Part Two...

It's time for the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on this week's Top 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...

Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, an alternative rock band from Tennessee, score their first top-40 album at #30 with their ninth release Medicine...

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Christian rap artist Derek Minor enters at #37 with Empire, making it his second top-40 album and highest rank...

YouTube star Ricky Dillon lands at #43 with his five-track RPD EP...

Soft-jazz saxophonist Kenny G returns at #49 with Brazilian Nights. In his career he's racked up seven top-10 albums, with his holiday set Miracles: A Holiday Album going all the way to #1 in 1994...

Rock jam band Gov't Mule teams up with jazz guitarist John Scofield at #53 for Sco-Mule. In 2013 the band went to #32 with Shout!...

Minneapolis-based indie-hip-hop collective Doomtree land at #54 with All Hands, their third album...

Stryper lead singer Michael Sweet and Dokken guitarist George Lynch collaborate as Sweet & Lynch on the album at #61, Only To Rise...

British crossover jazz singer Jamie Cullum is back at #72 with Interlude, his seventh studio album. In 2009 he climbed to #42 with The Pursuit...

Croatian classical crossover duo 2Cellos arrive at #87 with Celloverse, their third full-length release. Their debut 2Cellos climbed to #85 in 2011..

The final new entry of the week at #88 is from rapper Jarren Benton with Slow Motion EP, Volume One...

That's all for the second half of the new crop...out of these ten the three I'd check out first are the Jamie Cullum, Drew Holcomb, and Sweet & Lynch sets...