Rock Sweep: May 4, 2013...

We're up to part two of this week's "chart sweeps", where I bring you the newest songs making the weekly music charts in Billboard magazine, and now it's time for the latest on rock radio.

On the aggregate Rock Airplay chart, Imagine Dragons spend an eighth week at #1 with "Radioactive"....

The top entry at #38 is the first song by Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne since the Reunion album 15 years ago, and "Selling My Soul" reached #17. "God Is Dead" is from the band's forthcoming 13, and includes original members Tommy Iommi and Geezer Butler (who wrote the track) along with Ozzy...

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Depeche Mode's second single from their latest Delta Machine set, "Soothe My Soul", enters at #44. The more electronic-leaning track is currently up to #31 on the modern rock list...

Canadian indie-rock singer Serena Ryder takes her #8 hit from her homeland and debuts at #49. It currently moves up to #5 on the triple-A format...

The last entry at #50 are the Queens Of The Stone Age with "My God Is The Sun". It also jumps to #28 on the Modern Rock chart...

....and now for the format subcharts...

On the Mainstream Rock radio list, Soundgarden leap to #1 with "By Crooked Steps", while the aforementioned Black Sabbath track is the big winner, coming in at #25...

Another alt-hard rock band coming out of the woodwork is Filter, who enter at #34 with "What Do You Say", their first hit here since 2008's "Soldiers Of Misfortune", which went to #27...They went to #4 with "Take A Picture" in 1999...

Memphis hard rock group Devour the Day debut at #38 with "Good Man"...

and rounding it out at #40 is possibly the most successful Christian hard rock band out there (well, maybe P.O.D.), Skillet, with "Sick Of It". The group, led by husband and wife John and Korey Cooper, went to #2 in 2010 with "Awake And Alive"...

On the Modern Rock/Alternative rock chart, "Radioactive" also reigns there for a tenth week...

The sole debut at #39 is Shinedown with "I'll Follow You". The track, which is #8 on the Mainstream Rock list, is their fourth from Amaryllis. The band topped this chart back in 2008 with "Second Chance"...

 Meanwhile, over at the Triple-A (adult album alternative, or "hipster rock") format, Phillip Phillips scores a second #1 hit with "Gone, Gone, Gone"...

The single new song on this chart at #27 is British singer/songwriter Jake Bugg with "Lightning Bolt", and it's my "Rock Pick of the Week"....

On the harder-edged Active Rock radio format, Soundgarden jumps to #1 with "By Crooked Steps", while all four of the mainstream rock debuts - Black Sabbath, Filter, Devour The Day, and Skillet - debut at #27, #32, #35, and #37 respectively...

Lastly, on the older-skewing Heritage Rock chart, the Sound City "supergroup" of Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen, and Scott Reader climb to the top with "From Can To Can't", while the Black Sabbath track rockets in at #13 as the only debut...

That does it for this side of the music spectrum...I'll be back in an hour and a half with the latest on R&B radio. Rock on!