Pop Sweep: July 7, 2012...

Hey folks, it's time for the first of today's five "chart sweeps" of this weeks charts in Billboard magazine. Now we'll take a look at the new music hitting the all-genre Hot 100 and adult-pop charts.

On the Hot 100, the highest debut comes from a preview track off of Maroon5's CD Overexposed which came out on Tuesday. "One More Night" comes in all the way up at #42, and it's officially the second promoted single, with a new clip featuring Minka Kelly..odd choice for a single, reminds me of Rihanna's "Talk That Talk" single a lot...

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While Overexposed is in the running for next week's #1 album (though money's on Linkin Park), this week's #1 album, Justin Bieber's Believe, places two more tracks on the top-100. At #72 is the dance track "Beauty And The Beat" featuring Nicki Minaj....

...and at #95 is the more hip-hop styled "Right Here" featuring Drake (putting him, like Minaj, on both sides of the Drake/Chris Brown table). Believe managed to sell 374,000 copies physically and digitally, which to me seems a real big disappointment compared to Taylor Swift (who had the same multi-song preview rollout) who sold over a million of her last album, Speak Now.

Coming in at #86 is rapper Meek Mill, who takes his top-40 R&B hit onto the main chart with help from the unavoidable Drake on "Amen", and this song is not playable in church, that's for sure...

Kelly Clarkson's third single from her #1 album Stronger arrives at #93, and it shows off her "Dark Side", and it's already top-20 on the adult-pop chart...

..and at #100 is singer Easton Corbin, who has two #1 country hits under his belt, with "A Little More Country Than That" and "Roll With It". His latest, from his upcoming sophomore album, is struggling to get to the top-20 there, "Lovin' You Is Fun", maybe because it's too straightforward country in Nashville's addiction to rock hybrids (if even Alan Jackson's having trouble, you're in good company)...

Meanwhile, over on the adult-pop chart, two songs that already have shown up on top-40 crossover here. First at #36 is the excellent Queen knockoff by fun to followup "We Are Young", which is still a top-10 hit here, "Some Nights"...

and at #39 is the great cross of dubstep production and Adele-like soul vocals, Alex Clare's "Too Close"...

 ..out of all these, my favorite has got to be fun's "Some Nights"...

Next up, the newest rock songs hitting the charts in the US...