French Sweep: February 26, 2013...

It's time to travel over to Europe this afternoon to check out the new songs making the top-100 official sales chart in France this week, as "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis cash in a fourth week at #1...

The top entry on the chart at #15 this week is the second promo single for Justin Timberlake's upcoming 20/20 Experience album, "Mirrors". It follows "Suit & Tie", which came in at #8 five weeks ago and now sits at #45...

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Meanwhile, N-Sync's "legacy", One Direction score their biggest hit in this country as their charity single cover mashup of "One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)", which medleys Blondie and the Undertones, arrives at #17...and Harry Styles is really going for the young Mick Jagger look, no?

Wiggling its way in the chart at #34 is Brooklyn "trap music" DJ Baauer with the "Harlem Shake"....

French world-music singer Axel Tony, from the Parisian suburb of Colombe, debuts at #41 with "Au-delà des mots" ("Beyond Words"). Last year his debut single "Avec Toi" reached the #7 spot...

The White Stripes finally get their classic track "Seven Nation Army" on the French chart at #48. Besides this ten-year-old song, the now-defunct duo placed three other songs on the charts here...

Canadian actor-turned-rapper Drake comes in at #65 with his latest, "Started From The Bottom". He's had one lead-artist top-40 hit in France, "Take Care" (with Rihanna) which went to #26....(NSFW)

Another track featuring Drake, Lil' Wayne's "Love Me", comes in at #67.  "Weezy" went to #22 with "Mirrors" in 2011...

Bruno Mars' followup to his still-top-10 "Locked Out Of Heaven", the ballad "When I Was Your Man", enters at #71....

Another American A-lister, Pink, arrives at #78 with "Just Give Me A Reason" featuring Nate Ruess of fun...

British indie-rockers Foals have their first French hit at #90 with "My Number"...

The only other entry on the chart at #97 is singer Mary White with a cover of the Berlin song from Top Gun "Take My Breath Away". Though you can't see this anywhere on YouTube, you can check it out on Rhapsody...

And that's it for these shores....I'll cross the border later today with the newest songs making the German singles chart. Au Revoir!