Pop Sweep: September 15, 2012...

Hey folks, it's time to kick off this week's five-part "chart sweeps", where I sample the newest music making it onto the music lists at Billboard magazine. Right now it's the latest on the all-genre Hot 100 and adult top-40 pop radio charts.

On the Hot 100, which monitors radio airplay, record sales, and internet streaming, rapper Flo Rida reclaims the #1 spot for a second week with the blow-job anthem "Whistle".

The big debut this week is by the pop/rock group OneRepublic, who are back with a preview track from their upcoming third album, "Feel Again", at #61. Their first hit, "Apologize" with producer Timbaland, made it all the way to #2 in 2007...

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Rapper Lupe Fiasco and Australian singer Guy Sebastian have already topped the latter's homeland pop chart with the song at #73, "Battle Scars". Lupe has scored two top-10 hits, the biggest being "The Show Goes On" at #9 in 2010. His upcoming album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. I has charted three songs so far...

New York swag-rock duo Karmin's last single, "Brokenhearted", made it to the top-20 of the Hot 100, and topped the dance chart. The follow up to that song, "Hello", enters at #89...

Country singer Jerrod Niemann's breakthrough hit, "Lover, Lover", gave him a top-40 Hot 100 hit as it was #1 on the country chart, and the first single from his upcoming album Free The Music, "Shinin' On Me", pops in at #94...

Seattle-based "blue-eyed" rapper Ben Haggerty, who records under the moniker Mecklemore, gets his first hit with DJ/collaborator Ryan Lewis and singer Wanz on the self-released "Thrift Shop". He's also notable for putting out a track in support of marriage equality in his home state of Washington on "Same Love"...and the new jam is pretty fun...I can so relate...(NSFW)

 Boston-area electropop outfit Passion Pit's latest (and awesome) album Gossamer made the top-5 on the albums chart earlier this summer, and after bubbling under the Hot 100 a couple years back with "Sleepyhead", the first single from the new set, "Take A Walk", sneaks in at #99...

...and at #100 is former Child of Destiny Kelly Rowland, who topped the pop and R&B charts back in 2002 with rapper Nelly on "Dilemma", and last year was in the pop top-20 with a song that was #1 for seven weeks on R&B radio, "Motivation" featuring rapper Lil' Wayne. That pairing is back for "Ice"....

Meanwhile over on the radio-monitored Adult Top-40 pop chart, Neon Trees' "Everybody Talks" takes over the #1 spot.

There are two new songs on this list, and the winner of the two is long-running hard-rockers Aerosmith, who have with age softened their sound a bit of course, though they've only reached this chart three previous times, with the Armageddon ballad "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" going to #2 in 1998. Their latest, at #38, is "What Could Have Been"...

The other new track is the Hot 100's top hit, rapper Flo Rida, with "Whistle", proving this format is becoming more conducive to rap and dance music, as he had made the list four times before, with both his previous singles "Good Feeling" and "Wild Ones" peaking in the top-20 here....

That's a wrap on the pop side of things, check back in 90 minutes and I'll bring you the latest on rock radio...