French Sweep: January 28, 2014...

It's time again to scoot back across the Atlantic to check out the songs making the official singles chart in France this week, as Pharrell Williams spends a seventh non-consecutive week on top with "Happy"...

The top debut of the week belongs to megastars Shakira and Rihanna, who team up at #6 with "Can't Remember To Forget You". The Colombian singer has topped the singles chart in this country five times, the latest with "J"aime a Mourir" in 2011, while the Barbados-born diva also has five #1's to her name here, with "The Monster" with Eminem just leaving the peak a few weeks ago...

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Team BS score their first hit together at #33 with "Case Depart". The hip-hop "supergroup" consists of local heroes La Fouine, Fababy, Sindy, and Sultan...

Oddly enough, a track from The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug enters the chart at #35. But rather than the "pop-friendly" vocal track of Ed Sheeran's "I See Fire", it's Howard Shore with the score selection "The Woodland Realm". Not sure why this is happening, but it does mark the composer's first time on the singles chart.

Glee star Lea Michele follows up her non-show debut "Cannonball", which made it to #48, with "Louder", which goes a couple notches higher in at #46...

American newbies A Great Big World take their hit "Say Something" with Christina Aguilera to these shores at #68...

Mister You places his second debut in as many weeks as "Pare' Pour Decoller" ("Ready For Takeoff") comes in at #73...

The French deep-house duo of Faul and Wad Ad took their single "Changes" to #1 in neighboring Germany, and now it finally makes it back to their homeland at #77...

Irish indie-folk singer and songwriter James Vincent McMorrow debuts at #81 with his moving "Cavalier"...

Parisian art collective La Rue Ketanou claim their first hit single at #82 with "La Guitare Sud Americain" ("The South American Guitar")...

Another left-field entry at #90 is from the American vocal soul group The Mills Brothers with their 1937 recording "Dedicated To You" featuring Ella Fitzgerald...

Another oldie drops in as the last debut of the week as American saxophonist and flautist Bud Shank is in at #97 with "Little Girl Blue" originally released in 1958...

That's it for now...I'll be back later with the newest in Germany... au revoir!