Album Sweep: February 21, 2015 - Part Two...

Part two of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their debut on the Top Album Sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can catch up with part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets when possible, along with some of the artists' other major work...

While the regular series edition Now That's What I Call Music! 53 came in at #1, a companion volume tailor-made for this week's upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, Now That's What I Call Movies, comes in at #29. It includes eighteen film classics from the 60s to day, with Pharrell, Phil Collins, and Bruce Springsteen in the mix...

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Another various-artists set, WOW Gospel 2015, ascends to #35....

Melodic hardcore turned emo-shoegazer band Title Fight, from the northeast region of Pennsylvania, ring in at #41 with Hyperview, their third full-length album...

 Rock musician/producer Butch Walker comes in at #47 with his seventh solo album Afraid Of Ghosts. It's his first in the top 100 sellers...

Film score composer and horror movie king John Carpenter slips in at #64 with his Lost Themes. This is his first release of non-cinematic work...

 Murder By Death, an indie-rock band from Indiana, stab in at #65 with their third album Big Dark Love. It's their highest peak to date...

German power-metal group Blind Guardian enter at #66 with their tenth release Beyond The Red Mirror. It's their first to make the top 100 and first full-length in five years...

Mexican banda act La Arrolladora Banda De Limon de Rene' Camacho arrive at #75 with Ojos En Blanco ("Eyes of White"). In 2012, they climbed to #42 with Irreversible...

 The final new entry of the week at #76 is rapper Slim Thug with his Hogg Life: The Beginning. Ten years ago his debut Already Platinum came in at #2...

That's all for the second half of the newbies...out of these nine the three to get first are the Murder By Death, Blind Guardian, and John Carpenter sets...