Brit Sweep: September 1, 2013...

Well Sunday of this extended weekend (in America) is upon us, and time to cross the Atlantic to check out the songs making the official top-100 chart in Britain that was just released today, as Ellie Goulding holds on to #1 for a third week with "Burn"..

The top entry of the week at #6 is alt-dance duo Rizzle Kicks with "Lost Generation", the first single from their upcoming second album The Roaring 20s. Their debut set spun off three top-10 singles, with "Mama Do The Hump" reaching #2 two years ago...

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The first solo single from Shane Filan since his "boy-band" Westlife from Ireland split arrives as "Everything To Me" is at #14, and is my "Brit Pick of the Week"....

American hip-hop team of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis take their ode to marriage equality, "Same Love" featuring Mary Lambert, to British shores as it enters at #25. They went to #1 here with "Thrift Shop" earlier this year...

British alternative rock band the 1975 score their third top-40 hit as "Sex" punches in at #35. A few months ago their "Chocolate" peaked at #19...

Rapper Wretch 32 has had four top-10 hits so far in the UK, and one of them, "Don't Go", topped the chart here in 2011. He's back at #60 with "Going OK" featuring Jacob Banks...

Scottish singer/songwriter Nina Nesbitt comes in at #61 with "Don't Stop", a cover of the Fleetwood Mac hit used in the John Lewis insurance commerical. She previous got to the top-40 with "Stay Out"...

Coming in at #79 is internet comic character Weebl with a bit of help from Queen guitarist Brian May for the novelty PSA "Badger Badger Badger". The track was made to call attention to the "culling" of badgers to halt bovine tuberculosis...

The final entry of the week is Robin Thicke's follow-up to his #1 hit "Blurred Lines".  "Give It 2 U", featuring rappers 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar, takes place on the craziest half-time show ever. Ass float.

That's it for tonight...thanks for stopping by my lil' corner of the interwebs, and I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, part two of this week's "album sweep", and my "robbed hit of the week". Good nite!