Soul Sweep: April 27, 2013...

Hey gang, welcome back to the third installment of today's "chart sweeps" sampling the new songs making it on the weekly music charts in Billboard magazine, and now it's the latest R&B songs on the radio.

On the main R&B/HipHop Airplay chart, "Pour It Up" by Rihanna reclaims the #1 spot for a seventh non-consecutive week...

The top entry at #34 is Lil' Wayne with "Rich As Fuck" featuring 2 Chainz (NSFW)..

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Neo-soul crooner Raheem DeVaughn comes in at #45 with "Love Connection". He's taken two songs to the top-20, with "Customer" going to #12 in 2008...

Another neo-soul artist, Urban Mystic, enters at #47 with "I Promise". In 2008 he had his biggest hit so far with "Main Squeeze" reaching #13...

....and at #48 is former GAP Band lead singer and quiet storm king Charlie Wilson with "Turn Off The Lights". Five of his solo singles made the top-20, but surprising none of them cracked the top-10 as yet...

Meanwhile, over on the Adult R&B chart, Tamar Braxton spends a second week at #1 with "Love And War"..

The second member of pop/rock kings Maroon 5 to have a solo hit, keyboardist PJ Morton, has the high entry on the chart at #34 with "Only One" featuring Stevie Wonder...and it's my "Soul Pick of the Week"...

Gospel singer Isaac Carree, a member of the group Men Of Standard, comes in at #37 with "Clean This House"...

Avant follows up his #1 Adult R&B hit "You & I" with his next single at #38, "More"...

The huge gospel hit "Here In Our Praise" by Fred Hammond and United Tenors works its way to this format at #39...

The final debut here shows the influence of more "street-level" hiphop as Kendrick Lamar raps his way to #40 with "Swimming Pools (Drank)"...

That's it for the hump of this week's "sweeps"...I'll return with the newest country songs on the radio...Groove on!