Pop Sweep: July 20, 2013...

Welcome to the kick-off to today's "chart sweeps" sampling the songs reaching the charts in Billboard magazine. As always, I'll start on the pop side of the musical spectrum, along with the "big chart", the Hot 100.

On the Hot 100 Robin Thicke racks up week number five at #1 with "Blurred Lines" featuring Pharrell Williams & T.I. (as Pharrell also is at #2 with "Get Lucky")...

The top debut at #50 is from R&B singer Ciara, who also moves up to #25 with "Body Party". Her new one, "I'm Out", features ubiquitous rapper Nicki Minaj...(NSFW)

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Rapper 2 Chainz returns at #67 with the first promo single from his forthcoming sophomore record, "Feds Watching", featuring (of course) Pharrell, who produced the track. As a lead-credit artist, he has racked up four top-40 hits so far, with the four-way lead "Mercy" his highest at #13...(NSFW)

American Idol third-season winner Fantasia comes in at #74 with the second single from her fourth album Side Effects Of You (the first, "Lose To Win", almost made it at #102). "Without Me" features cameos from Child of Destiny Kelly Rowland and rapper/producer Missy Elliott. Fantasia had had three of her songs go to the top-40, with her "winner's song" "I Believe" topping the chart in 2004...

Rapper Wale, who had last week's biggest-selling album, arrives at #89 with the followup to his still-top-40 "Bad". "Love/Hate Thing" features singer Sam Dew on backup...

New Zealander newcomer Lorde scores her first chart hit on the Hot 100 as "Royals", a former #1 hit in her own country, debuts at #90.

Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow enters at #99 with her first solo single to make the chart in five years, "Easy". It's country-fied nature has put her in the top-30 on that genre's radio chart....

The final debut on the big chart is by Chicago-based electronic dance act Krewella, who follow up their top-40 debut hit "Alive" with "Live For The Night" at #100...(NSFW)

...and now, onward to the pop radio format charts...

On the Mainstream Top-40 Pop panel,  "Blurred Lines" jumps up to the #1 spot for its first week...

The top debut of the week is by rapper and museum art-piece Jay-Z with the "title track" from his latest album/phone app, "Holy Grail". It's the most pop-influenced cut on the set due to the large contribution of singer Justin Timberlake on vocals....though def NSFW with the barrage of "N-Words" that would give Paula Deen a stiffie.

"Swag-pop" duo Karmin return at #39 with "Acappella", my "pop pick of the week"

The third entry here at #40 is Latin hottie and rapper Pitbull with "Outta Nowhere", the fifth single from his Global Warming album...(NSFW)

Meanwhile, on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 chart, Pink and Nate Ruess hang on to the top spot for an eleventh week with "Just Give Me A Reason"...

The sole debut of the week is the former #1 dance club single from last year, "Clarity" from Russo-German DJ and producer Zedd featuring vocals by Foxes...

Lastly, on the Adult-Contemporary, or "easy-listening" format, Pink's "Just Give Me A Reason" climbs back to #1 for a second non-consecutive week...

The sole debut here, is, yes, Robin Thicke, who proves even unstoppable to the "oldies" with "Blurred Lines" which slips in at the bottom at #30...

 That's it for the pop side of things....I'll return in 90 minutes with the newest on rock radio...