Brit Sweep: February 17, 2013...

Hey folks, It's time for my weekly run-down of the newest songs making their way on to the official sales chart in Great Britain this week, as three songs rocket into the top-10...

The biggest-selling single in the UK this week is the latest by Swedish DJ/producer Avicii with Dutch dance artist Nicky Romero, with "I Could Be The One". Born Tim Bergling, this is Avicii's sixth chart single and first number-one hit (he went to #4 twice - as a credit on Leona Lewis' "Collide" and with his worldwide smash "Levels")...

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Landing at #3 is the newly-crowned "viral video" king, where tens of thousands of clips of people dancing to the "Harlem Shake" (not to be confused with the 90s hiphop dance move) have set this track on fire Gangnam Style. Recorded by Brooklyn producer Baauer (real name Henry Rodrigues), The song is also right now at the top of the iTunes chart, foreboding a high entry on the American chart next week.. But has anyone really heard all three minutes of the track? And let me say I'm stoked a song on an indie label is doing this...

Third entry in the top-10 at #6 is newcomer Gabrielle Aplin, who had her first hit, a cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "The Power Of Love", reach #1 last year with help from being featured on an ad campaign for English merchant John Lewis. Her newest is the opposite-sounding "Please Don't Say You Love Me"....

Indie rock group Foals, from the university town of Oxford, arrive at #23 with their third British top-40 single, "My Number". The song is already a top-20 hit in Belgium as well.

Justin Timberlake follows up his "comeback" single "Suit & Tie" (which reached #3 here) with "Mirrors", which arrives at #28. Actually it sounds more like N-SYNC material than his own solo work, but it's better than the previous song, that's for sure...

The third single from British singer/rapper Example's fourth album, The Evolution Of Man, enters the chart at #54. The man born Elliot Gleave has topped the UK chart twice before, and "Perfect Replacement" looks like another top-40 hit in the making...

California sister rockers Haim score their third charting single at #70 with "Falling". They are critics' darlings here, recently winning the industry Sound Of 2012 poll for upcoming acts.

Swedish singer Emilia Mitiku has a top-5 single in the UK in 1998 under just her first name with "Big Big World", and she's back in full at #79 with "You're Not Right For Me"...

Olly Murs follows up his #1 hit (and now American crossover) "Troublemaker" with "Army Of Two" at #89...

Electronica-soul singer (think like Alex Clare) James Blake has the final debut of the week as "Retrograde" becomes his second song to reach the top-100 in England.

That's it for today...lots of good stuff, though I have to say the Emilia Mitiku song is my fave of all of them....

I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, Candletime, part two of this week's "Album Sweep", and my Robbed hit of the Week. Cheers!