Brit Sweep: May 19, 2013...

Hey gang, it's the close of the weekend, and time to check out the new songs making their way on to the just-released Official Chart in Britain this week, as Daft Punk hold on to #1 for a fourth week with "Get Lucky". It's the longest consecutive stay on top since Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" reigned for five weeks straight in 2008...

The top entry on the chart at #3 is former Disney princess turned bad girl turned X Factor judge Demi Lovato with "Heart Attack". It's her fourth top-40 hit in this country, and first top-10 single...

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Rapper Wretch 32 scores his fourth top ten single at #6 with "Blackout" featuring Shakka. He topped the list in 2011 with "Don't Go"...

British EDM artist Sub Focus (real name Nick Douwma) nabs his first top-10 at #10 with "Endorphins" featuring Alex Clare. Clare is best known for his Microsoft-shilling "Too Close" which went to #4 in the UK...

London-based girl-group Stooshe arrive at #12 with my "Brit Pick of the Week". "Slip" is their fourth top-40 hit - they went to #3 with the amazeballs "Black Heart"...

The third single from Olly Murs' Right Place Right Time album, "Dear Darlin'", jumps in at #18. Besides his appearance on the X Factor Finalists 2009 cover of "You Are Not Alone", Olly has topped the UK charts four times on his own, the last being "Troublemaker"...

Newcomer Tich debuts at #23 with "Dumb". She's been opening for Olly Murs on tour....

Australian musical comedy troupe Janoskians are big on YouTube doing pranks, and they also make the chart at #58 with "Best Friends", which interpolates the club hit "Best Song Ever" by wallpaper...

 Rappers 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa team up at #61 for "We Own It (Fast & Furious)". It's the theme to the sixth movie in the execrable Fast & Furious series..

Rod Stewart has the top-selling album in the UK last week (his eighth), and a track from it, "It's Over", comes in at #91...

The Eurovision song contest just concluded last night, with Denmark taking the prize, and the British entry, Bonnie Tyler's "Believe In Me", arrives at the rather dismal #93. It is, however, her first hit to reach the top-100 since her cover of Air Supply's "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" in 1995...

The song that did win Eurovision, "Only Teardrops" by 20-year-old Emmelie de Forrest, is the final debut of the week at #99. The Scandinavian country last won in 2000 with "Fly On The Wings Of Love" by the Olsen Brothers.

That's it for tonight...I'll return tomorrow with another Song of the Day, part two of this week's Album Sweep, and my "robbed hit" of the week....Good night!