Rock Sweep: September 8, 2012...

Hey folks, thanks for stopping back for part two of this week's "chart sweeps" of the new music making their way onto the Billboard magazine weekly charts. This time out it's the latest on rock radio.

On the Rock Songs list, Green Day spend a fifth non-consecutive week at #1 with "Oh Love".

The top debut on three of the big rock charts this week (Rock Songs, Modern Rock, and Triple-A) belongs to one record: British group Muse and their fantastic new single "Madness". It debuts all the way up at #8 on the Rock Songs list and the Modern Rock/Alternative radio chart, and at #26 on triple-A (hipster rock) radio. On the Rock Songs list (which combines airplay from Mainstream, Active, Heritage, Alternative/Modern and Triple-A rock) Muse went to #2 in 2009 with "Uprising", one of their two chart-topping songs on the Alternative list (and their only previous entry on the Triple-A chart whatsoever...)

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Coming in at #34 on the Rock Songs and #39 in Alternative Rock is Linkin Park, with their second single from their Living Things album, "Lost In The Echo". Since the Rock Songs combined chart has been around since 2009, the band has had three #1 hits here, while on Alternative radio they've topped the chart ten times, on both with their last single, "Burn It Down" earlier this summer...

Tennesse alt-metal band 10 Years come in at #38 with their first Rock Songs hit, "Backlash"...

On the Mainstream Rock chart, Las Vegas' Adelita's Way claim the top spot with "Criticize".

The sole debut on this list is Stone Sour, led by Corey Taylor and Jim Root of Slipknot. They've topped the Mainstream Rock list twice, last with "Say You'll Haunt Me" in 2010. They're back with the first song to chart from their upcoming House Of Gold And Bones Part 1 CD, "Absolute Zero" at #31...

Alex Clare rules the Alternative/Modern Rock chart for a third week with "Too Close". The only two debuts are the Muse and Linkin Park songs aforementioned. But since I left it off last week, here's Jack White' "Freedom At 21" , which entered last week and now it at #36 on the Alt-Rock list..

Meanwhile, over on the Triple-A (hipster rock) chart, Mumford & Sons take over the #1 spot in only their third week with "I Will Wait".

Besides the Muse single, the only other new entry on Triple-A this week is American Idol winner Philip Phillips, with his very Mumford-sounding debut single, "Home" at #29...

That covers it for rock radio, check back in an hour and a half and I'll bring you the newest on R&B radio. Rock On!