Album Sweep: April 11, 2015 - Part Two...

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

Arena rock veterans Kansas saw a documentary of their history, Miracles Our Of Nowhere, released, and the accompanying soundtrack lands at #37, becoming their seventh to make the top-40 on the albums chart. Along with snippets from interviews in the film, the set includes three of their biggest hits. Back in 1977 their album Point Of Know Return made it to #4...

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Nortena act Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda enters at #49 with Aferrado ("The Clinging")...

Another veteran rock band, Toto, comes back at #52 with Toto XIV, their thirteenth studio album (the compilation Toto XX was included in the numbering). Back in 1982 their classic Toto IV, which won a half-dozen Grammys, went to #4...

Indie-pop act Smallpools debut at #53 with their first full-length album Lovetap!.

Big Data, the electropop venture of producer Alan Wilkis, enters at #57 with his first full-length 2.0...

Christian hip-hop group Social Club rise to #60 with Us. That one comes in one notch lower than their last, Misfits 2, did last year...

CHON, a progressive rock outfit from San Diego, arrives at #66 with their first major-label set Grow...

 Calafornia punk rockers Strung Out score their first on the top 100 sales chart with their 8th studio album Transmission.Alpha.Delta...

English folk singer Laura Marling moves in at #80 with her fifth album Short Movie. Her last one, Once I Was An Eagle, went to #49 in 2013...

21:03, a Christian soul/rap duo from Detroit, is at #92 with their Outsiders EP...

The final newbie of the week at #99 is Lost And Found from Latin world music collective Buena Vista Social Club. Their self-titled album from 1997, which is one of Rolling Stone magazines Top 500 albums of the rock era, went to #80, but sold over a million copies...

That's all for the second half of the new crop...out of these eleven the four to check out first are the Big Data, Laura Marling, Smallpools, and CHON sets...