Country Sweep: September 1, 2012...

Hey guys, I've got part four of this week's "chart sweeps", where I bring you the latest music making their entrance on Billboard magazine's weekly charts. This time out, it's the latest on the country chart, and as opposed to last week's debutless chart, this week's got six new songs, as Blake Shelton's "Over" jumps into the #1 spot.

The top debut is by wedding reception nightmare Taylor Swift, who crashes the country radio party with a song that's decidedly not country-leaning. She has topped the chart six times here, from 2007's "Our Song" to last year's "Ours", so I guess Swift's got a little leeway, and it pays off, as "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" rockets in at #13. But beware, the last single to debut that high, another "event" record that wasn't really country, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw's "Feel Like A Rock Star", ended up peaking at #11...and I still stand by my feeling that this is Avril Lavigne trying to remake Madonna's "Don't Tell Me"...

The Eli Young band follow up their two consecutive #1 singles, "Crazy Girl" and "Even If It Breaks Your Heart", with "Say Goodnight" at #49...

Dierks Bentley's latest album, Home, has given his three charttoppers in a row, including the fun last one, "5-1-5-0", and his fourth single, "Tip It On Back", comes at #50...

Songwriter D. Vincent Williams has written a bunch of hit singles, like Rascal Flatts "I'm Movin' On" and Ty Herndon's "Hands Of A Working Man", and he scored one of his own with "Down By The River" at #56...This would make a great twostep dancing song...

 North Dakota-born singer Gwen Sebastian gets her first hit single at #59 with "Met Him In A Hotel Room". She was on the second season of The Voice...

Steve Holy has topped the country chart twice before, with 2001's "Good Morning Beautiful" and "Brand New Girlfriend" five years later. The third single from his latest album, Love Don't Run, is "Hauled Off and Kissed Me", and it debuts at #60...

That ends this sweep, I'll be back in an hour and a half to close it up with the newest dance songs in the clubs and on the radio. Twang on!