Pop Sweep: September 7, 2013...

Hey gang, it's time to kick off today's five part "chart sweeps" sampling the songs reaching the various singles charts in Billboard magazine, and as always I'll start off with the pop side of the house...

On the "big" chart, Billboard's Hot 100, which combines sales, radio airplay, and internet streaming, Robin Thicke reigns for a twelfth week with "Blurred Lines"...

Thicke's performing (and "twerking") partner on the MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus, claims the top debut of the week at #50 with the second single from her upcoming Bangerz album, "Wrecking Ball". It's a more straight-forward pop confection then it's predecessor, "We Can't Stop", which sits at #3 this week...

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Another graduate of the Disney Channel, singer Zendaya from Shake It Up and Good Luck Charlie, grabs her second Hot 100 hit at #77 with "Replay". Two years ago she went to #86 with "Watch Me" with Bella Thorne from the Shake It Up franchise...

Latin soul singer Prince Royce has his first pop debut at #78 with the third song he's taken to #1 on the Latin Songs chart, "Darte Un Beso" ("Kiss")...

Roaring in at #83 is a song large enough to follow a 12-week #1 record, and Robin Thicke's "Give It 2 U" with 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar may be a bunch of fluff and swagger but it's got everything right to be my "Pop Pick of the Week"..

A close second for my pick is Nickelodeon actress/singer Ariana Grande along with the Wanted's Nathan Sykes for "Almost Is Never Enough" from the movie The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones. It's already her fourth song to reach the chart before her debut is released, including the top-10 "The Way", and I'm totally psyched for it...

Rapper Ludacris returns at #96 with a track from his mixtape #IDGAF, "Helluva Night".  He has topped the chart twice as a lead artist, and has been a go-to "featured artist", but he hasn't led a top-10 hit since 2009's "How Low"...


The final debut on the big chart at #100 is a songwriter who has co-written huge hits for Katy Perry, Taio Cruz, and Christina Aguilera, so I'm not sure how she decided to go with the product dump of "American Girl" as her first single, but so be it. She's so overtrying to pretend she isn't about to turn 30...

...and now on to the pop radio format charts...

On the Mainstream Top-40 radio panel, "Blurred Lines" holds tight for an eighth week...

The top entry at #30 is rap/singer Drake with his laid-back "Hold On, We're Going Home" featuring the group Majid Jordan...

Selena Gomez is back at #38 with her second "solo" hit, "Slow Down"...

Two of the most "featured" rappers on pop records today pair up as Pitbull plays second fiddle on Flo Rida's ode de la booty, "Can't Believe It"...

...and at #40 is female vocal group Fifth Harmony, who came in third on the X Factor, with "Miss Movin' On"...

Meanwhile, at the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, "Blurred Lines" sets in for a third week on top, while there are no new songs on the list...

Finally, on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy-listening") radio chart, American Idol Phillip Phillips scores a second #1 with "Gone, Gone, Gone"...

The sole debut at #26 is Katy Perry with her new song which is at #2 on the Hot 100, "Roar"...

 That's it for the start of today's musical journey...I'll be back in 90 minutes with the newest on rock radio...