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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... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

I'm ready to kick off the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the Top Album Sales chart in Billboard magazine. As usual, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets, along with some of the artists' other major work. Support the talent! On the chart, Kendrick Lamar spends a second week at #1 with To Pimp A Butterfly , selling over 100,000 copies in its second week.... The top debut of the week at #3 is the first full-length chart album for Brooklyn rapper Action Bronson (he had an EP make the list in 2013), Mr. Wonderful .... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

Part Two of this week's "album sweep" is here, sampling the records making their debut on the 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 any of the new sets when possible... Pastor Charles Jenkins and his Fellowship Chicago rise to #43 with Any Given Sunday ... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

I'm ready to start the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top Album Sales chart. As usual, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets, as well as some of the artists' other major work. Rapper Kendrick Lamar claims the #1 position with his third studio album To Pimp A Butterfly . The record sold over 300,000 copies in its first week. It's his first to top the sales chart... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

It's time to kick off this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the Top Album Sales chart in Billboard this week, which electronically tracks the vast majority of the sold albums in the United States. As always, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets, along with some of the artists' other major work. But if you can, drop on by an independent record store. It'll do you (and the economy) good! As opposed to the ridiculous sham the trade magazine has made of the old "Top 200 Albums" chart, which now includes now only singles sales but also internet streaming tallies (so basically they can call anything #1 at this point without contest), Madonna proves again to be the biggest pop star in the world as her thirteenth studio album Rebel Heart sold over 116,000 copies in its first week. It's now her ninth #1 seller and sixth in a row. Her first, Like A Virgin , topped the chart 30 freaking year...

I'm a little late, but it's time for last week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the Top Album Sales chart in Billboard magazine this week. As usual, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new ones, along with some of the artists' other major work. Support the talent! The first American Idol , Kelly Clarkson, scores her third #1 album as Piece By Piece , her seventh studio album, sold over 80,000 copies in its first week. She also did the trick with her debut, Thankful , in 2003, and her fourth, All I Ever Wanted , in 2009... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

Part two of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their first appearance on the Top Albums Sales chart in Billboard magazine this week. You can check out part one by clicking here , and as before I've included links to buy any of the new sets along with some of the artists' other major work... New York-based indie-pop band Misterwives take their debut full-length album Our Own House to #29 on the sales chart... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

I'm ready to kick off the first half of today's "album sweep", sampling the records making their way on to the Top Album Sales chart in Billboard magazine. As usual I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets along with some of the artists' other major work... Rapper Big Sean claims his first #1 album as his third studio album Dark Sky Paradise which sold almost 140,000 copies in its first week... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

I'm ready to roll out this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on this week's Top Album Sales chart in Billboard magazine. As always, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets when available, as well as some of the artists' other major work... Modern rock band Imagine Dragons score their first #1 album as their second full-length studio set Smoke + Mirrors sold over 172,000 copies to top the chart this week... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

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 ... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

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... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

It's time to roll out the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top Album Sales chart (as opposed to their Top 200, which shoves album tracks and streaming into the mix). As usual, I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets, as well as some of the artists' other major work.... The top-selling album in the U.S. is the 53rd installment of the hit various artist compilation Now That's What I Call Music! (or Now 53 ), which sold just under a hundred thousand copies in its first week. The collection contains sixteen big hits (plus five wannabes), including the current #1 pop hit "Uptown Funk!", as well as ten more top-ten hits. The last volume topped out at #2 but did cross the 100K level... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

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 ... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

I'm ready to roll out the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the Top Album Sales chart in Billboard magazine. As usual, I'll include highlighted links to buy any of the new albums when possible, as well as some of the artists' other major work. The top-selling album of the week is no surprise as Taylor Swift's 1989 climbs back and spends a tenth non-consecutive week at #1, selling over 71,000 copies. In the runner-up position is R&B singer/songwriter Ne-Yo, whose sixth studio release Non-Fiction becomes his sixth top-10 effort. His first two albums, In My Own Words in 2007 and Because Of You a year later, both went to #1.... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

Part two of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazines (now sadly truncated) Top Album Sales chart. You can check out part one by clicking here , and as before I've included links to buy any of the new sets when possible. Christian 'worship' outfit the Vertical Church Band ascends to #21 with Church Songs . It's the first to make the big chart for the Chicago-based group... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

It's time for the first half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top Album Sales chart this week. As always, I've included links to buy any of the new sets when possible, as well as some of the artists' other major work, but if you can, get down to an indie record store and show some love... Pop/punk kings Fall Out Boy score their third #1 album as American Beauty/American Psycho sells over 192,000 copies in its first week. Their last release Save Rock and Roll also topped the list in 2013, as did their 2007 set Infinity On High ... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

It's time for the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's official American Album Sales Chart this week. You can check out part one by clicking here , and as before I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets, along with some of the artists' other work. Cuban-American rapper/singer Kat Dahlia debuts at #38 with her first full-length studio album My Garden ... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

It's time for this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Album Sales Chart this week, and for the first time this year there's so many newbies I will divide the pack into two, with the second half tomorrow. As always, I've included links to buy any of the new sets along with some of the artists' other major work... The new top-selling album in the U.S. in its first week is the debut full-length release from pop singer/songwriter Meghan Trainor with Title (a four-song EP of the same, erm, title reached #15 last year). She sold just under 200,000 copies, not bad for what normally would be considered a "singles" genre... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

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 . ... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

Hey guys, this would be the time that I would bring out my "album sweep", sampling the records that are making their debut on the Top Albums Sales chart in Billboard magazine, but in this all-to-quiet post-holiday week (and because the editors at the mag cut the sales chart in half to 100 spots), there's no albums making their debut at all this week, as Taylor Swift spends an eighth non-consecutive week at #1, selling over 172,000 copies...