Rock Sweep: August 18, 2012

Welcome back, it's time for the second of this week's "chart sweeps" of the new music debuting on Billboard magazine's music charts. Now we'll take a look at the new tracks making their way onto rock radio.

On the Rock Songs list, Green Day's "Oh Love" returns to its #1 debut position for a second week, as the highest entry belongs to hard rock group Papa Roach, who had a top-5 hit on the chart with 2009's "Lifeline", and now return at #36 with a the first single from their upcoming set The Connection, "Still Swingin'"..

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California ska-punkers Slightly Stoopid debut at #48 with a song that's also the top entry on the Modern Rock/Alternative chart, "Top Of The World"...

Kentucky-based southern metal band Black Stone Cherry's fourth single from their album Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (which contains the top-10 mainstream rock hit "In My Blood"), "Like I Roll", comes in at #50...

Meanwhile over on the Modern Rock/Alternative radio niche list, fun's "Some Nights" remains on top for a second week. Besides Slightly Stoopid, the other debut this week is South African post-grungers Seether, who have topped this chart twice before, with "Fake It" and "Rise Above This". They arrive at #39 with the fourth single from Holding On To Strings Better Left To Fray, "Here And Now"...

And on the Triple-A (hipster-radio) rock charts, the Lumineers' "Ho Hey" spends an eighth week at #1, and the top entry is from indie-rockers from Ohio called Walk The Moon, with a song that's already peaked in the top-10 on the Modern Rock radio list, "Anna Sun"...

At #38 is British folk singer Ben Howard, who's "Only Love" also became his first UK top-40 single...

Popping in at #39 is a song that's also been a top-10 success on the Modern Rock chart, the Neon Trees' "Everybody Talks"...

...and at #40 is another top-10 crossover from Modern Rock as well as benefiting still from the still-constant exposure from those Bing commercials, "Too Close" by Alex Clare..

That's it for this trip, since Alex Clare and Walk the Moon have had their time in the sun, my picks this week are definitely the Ben Howard and the Black Cherry Stone tunes.

Next up in an hour and a half, the latest on R&B radio...

Rock on!