Brit Sweep: September 15, 2013...

Hey gang, the end of the weekend is here (boo!), and it's time to sample the song reaching the just-released official music singles sales charts in Britain this week, as Katy Perry spends a second week at #1 with "Roar"...

There are no new entries in the top-10 this week; the highest debut at #12 belongs to Coldplay with their soundtrack hit from the second Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, "Atlas". At keast they can take solace in the fact that they already have a baker's dozen of top-10 singles already, with "Viva La Vida" and "Paradise" reaching #1, plus the fact that there's a good chance for the song to move up since the film hasn't even opened yet...

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Right under Coldplay at #13 is rapper/singer Example with "All The Wrong Places", the first single from his upcoming fifth studio album. It's my "Brit Pick of the Week". He had back-to-back #1 hits in 2011 with "Changed The Way You Kiss Me" (my personal fave) and "Stay Awake"...

Newcomer Ben Pearce arrives at #25 with "What I Might Do". The neo-house musician/singer is from Manchester...

"Grime"-style rapper and actor Lethal Bizzle from London enters at #29 with his eighth top-40 hit, "Party Right". In 2002 his collab with More Fire Crew, "Oil", went to #7, his biggest so far...

Canadian Grammy-winners for Album of the Year in 2011 Arcade Fire are about to release their follow-up to that album, The Suburbs. The title track to the upcoming effort, "Reflektor", is in at #44. The band's debut album, Funeral, gave them all four of their top-40 hits in the UK so far, with "Rebellion (Lies)" peaking at #19...

Veteran alternative rock outfit Manic Street Preachers, from Wales, placed their first hit in the UK top-10 in 1992. It was a cover to the "Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)". Since then they've racked up fifteen top-10 singles, with two going to #1; 1998's "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" and "The Masses Against The Classes" two years later. They return at #77 with "Show Me The Wonder", the first single from their upcoming album Rewind The Film which gets released tomorrow (9/16)...

Another rapper of the "grime" genre that also acts, Bashy, comes in at #87 with his third charting single, "These Are The Songs" featuring Jareth...

The final debut of the week is from Kanye West's Yeezus album, most likely helped from his performance of the track on Jimmy Fallon's show. "Bound 2" features Charlie Wilson (from the Gap Band originally) on backup...

That does it for tonight...I'll be back tomorrow with another song of the day, part two of my "Album Sweep", and my robbed hit of the week.. Cheers!