Dance Sweep: January 19, 2013...

Welcome back, I'm going to close out today's "chart sweeps" with the latest dance music on the radio and in the clubs making the charts in Billboard magazine.

On the DJ-polled "Hot Dance Club Play" chart, Aussie DJ/producer Havana Brown scores her second #1 dance hit with "Big Banana" featuring R3hab.

The top new entry on the chart is by Jamaican island-tinged pop singer Sean Kingston, with "Rum And Raybans" featuring British singer Cher Lloyd at #43. He took "Fire Burning" to #3 back in 2009, but his success has been sort of muted of late. Sounding like Usher's "DJ Got Me Falling In Love" and Nicki Minaj's "Pound The Alarm" had a record baby, with over-processed vocals from Sean and Cher starting out with some sort of Caribbean accent, this is, well, weird. Grade: C-

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The Rolling Stones are no stranger to the Club chart: in fact they made the top-5 back in 1986 with "Harlem Shuffle". The rock royalty are back at #44 with the mixes of the new track from their retrospective Grrr! called "Doom And Gloom". Benny Benassi thankfully doesn't drown Mick Jagger completely out, and allows a little bit of rock edge on a song I really like, and doesn't stray so far as to seem completely out of place for a Stones' record. Even leaving some guitars in is a nice touch. Grade: B+

Newcomer Miasha comes in at #47 with her first hit, "Everybody's Beautiful". There's a nice Cher-like low-register quality to her voice (not Cher Lloyd, the Cher), and while Peter Rauhofer's mix is getting the clubs going, it's way to noisy and messy for the positive party record the original is. Grade: B

The last entry on the club chart is by porn queen turned actress turned singer Traci Lords, with the "campy" strut of "He's My Bitch" with the House Rejects featuring Brian Lucas. Seemingly like a quick clone of will.i.am's "Scream & Shout", it's not as fun as it tries to be, but give her credit I guess for trying - believe it or not it's been 18 years since she went to #2 on the club chart with "Control", which was the bomb...Grade: D+

Meanwhile, over on the radio-monitored Dance Airplay/Mixshow chart, the Swedish House Mafia reclaim the top spot for a tenth non-consecutive week with "Don't You Worry Child", and there are no new entries...

Finally, on the Global Dance Tracks chart, SHM's "Don't You Worry Child" enjoys a fifteenth week at #1...

The top debut at #27 is by producer John de Sohn with Swedish singer Andreas Moe with "Long Time", a song that's been a big pop hit across Europe, and Moe's performance elevates it above the usual EDM track, although with this video it's the most bad-ass pillow fight I've ever seen. Grade: B

DJ/producer Chuckie (real name Clyde Narain), from the former Dutch South American country of Surinam, is in at #30 with "Breaking Up", with Promise Land featuring amazing vocalist Amanda Wilson (who normally records with the Freemasons). I can't get enough of Amanda's powerful voice, but it's almost completely hidden in this rave track, which seems like an oppurtunity wasted. Grade: C-

Gold 1 enters at #35 with "This Is My Love" featuring Jaeson Ma and completely surprisingly A-lister Bruno Mars. The German hit sample's Ma's record "Love" (which contains the Bruno Mars riff), a Christian-esque dance song produced by the Far East Movement. But Gold 1's way overprocessed vocals are a little distracting. Grade: C-

The final entry is by Swiss DJ's Jack Holiday and Mike Candys at #38 with "The Riddle Anthem", which samples the 1984 Nik Kershaw hit "The Riddle". This certainly won't outshine the original, but it's not bad. Grade: C+

Well that closes out today's sweeps. Thanks so much for dropping by, and I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, Candletime, this week's "Album Sweep", and the recap of what's up in Britain. Cheers!