Album Sweep: February 28, 2015...

Hey gang, it's time to kick off this week's "album sweep", sampling the albums making their debut on the Top Album Sales chart this week in Billboard magazine. As usual, I've included links to buy any of the new sets, as well as some of the artists' other work.

The top-selling album on the chart is Canadian-born rapper Drake with his "mixtape" If You're Readying This It's Too Late, selling just under a half-million copies in America in its first week. It's his fourth #1 album in this country, including all three of his full-length studio albums like 2013's Nothing Was The Same...

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Coming in at the #2 spot, selling over 200,000 copies, is the soundtrack to 50 Shades Of Grey, with songs from Ellie Goulding, The Weeknd, Beyonce, Sia, and more...

Indie rock musician Father John Misty, a.k.a. Joshua Tillman, lands at #12 with I Love You, Honeybear. It's his first top-40 record...

Latin heartthrob and "out" singer Ricky Martin is back at #13 with A Quien Quiera Escuchar ("Who Wants To Play"). Back in 1999 his self-titled English-language breakthrough album topped the chart...

Another Latin superstar, Mexican sing Juan Gabriel, returns at #19 with Los Duo, his first time in the top-40. It's all duets with artists like Juanes and Laura Pausini...

Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke score their second top-40 album and highest rank yet with their fourth studio set Holding All The Roses...

One of the best musicals of all time, The Last Five Years, is out now in a film version featuring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, and the soundtrack makes the chart at #32...

Indie-folk musician Rhiannon Giddens, who took part in the top-40 album from The New Basement Tapes that is at #84 this week, and is lead of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, is at #35 with Tomorrow Is My Turn...

YouTube music hit Jacob Whitesides enters at #46 with his EP A Piece Of Me...

California punk band Stick To Your Guns comes in at #53 with their fifth studio album Disobedient...

The first-volume soundtrack to the Starz channel fantasy drama Outlander beams in at #59...

Americana music veteran Robert Earl Keen enters at #61 with Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions. It's his highest rank he's had in his career on this chart...

The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir ascends to #70 with Pray:Live. It's also their best showing...

The final newbie of the week at #82 is rockabilly musician JD McPherson with Let The Good Times Roll, his first time in the top 100...

That's all for the new crop...out of these fourteen, the five to check out first are the Last Five Years, Rhiannon Giddens, Father John Misty, Robert Earl Keen, and Ricky Martin sets...