Pop Sweep: July 14, 2012...

Happy Saturday, and it's time for the first of today's five "chart sweeps" of this week's debut songs on Billboard's weekly charts in pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance. This time out it's the new tracks on the big chart: Billboard's Hot 100, as well as the Adult-top-40 list as well.

On the all-genre Hot 100, the big winner is the new collaboration by one-man act Owl City, who scored a #1 hit in 2009 with "Fireflies", and Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, who right now has the smash of the summer with her current #1 song "Call Me Maybe". The song comes in all the way at #18 due to big sales, and it's called "Good Time"...

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Maroon 5 preview their album with another track that debuts at # 80, "Wipe Your Eyes"...

One ring under Levine and the boys at #81 is a song that hit #1 in Britain last year, but now is finally getting exposure in the States in commercials for Beats Audio on HP, it's electronica/dubstep act Nero with "Promises"...and their album Welcome To Reality is definitely worth picking up...

Rapper Wale debuts at #93 with a song that appears on the Maybach Music Records' Self-Made Vol. 2 compilation, "Bag Of Money", featuring Rick Ross, Meek Mill, & autotune giant T-Pain...

Linkin Park's new CD Living Things beat out Maroon5's Overexposed to be this week's #1, but Marooon5 got the better in the singles sales department, as LP's "Lost In The Echo" comes in at #95...I picked them both up, as a whole I like the Linkin Park CD more as a whole...

Coming in at #97 is tween heartthrobs BTR (Big Time Rush) from the Nickelodeon TV show, and you may recognize the sample of Blur's "Song 2" in the "woohoo's" in the song, giving the English band writing creds on "Windows Down"...

...and blowing in at #99 is country jam hitmakers the Zac Brown Band with the latest, the first single from their upcoming third studio album, that's already in the top-20 of the country chart, "The Wind". It reminds me a little bit of Garth Brooks' "Against The Grain", no? And with a spankin' new video animated by Beavis & Butthead/King of The Hill creator Mike Judge, it takes on a new trippy vibe...

 Meanwhile, over on the Adult-Pop chart, the only new song this week is the entry of the #1 rock hit "Burn It Down" by aforementioned Linkin Park...

Next up, the latest acts on the Rock charts....