Pop Sweep: February 15, 2014...

It's time to kick off the first of today's five "chart sweeps", sampling the songs making their first appearances on Billboard magazine's various radio and singles charts. As always, I'll start on the pop side of things, and move on to rock, R&B, country, and dance later on...

On the "big" chart, Billboard's Hot 100, which combines airplay, sales, and internet streaming data (like YouTube and Spotify), Katy Perry spends a second week at #1 with "Dark Horse"...

The top entry of the week up at #45 is bachata music artist and former lead artist of Latin hitmakers Aventura, with "Odio" featuring Drake. The single, which topped the Latin Songs list, is his highest rank on this chart as yet, and is the follow-up to "Propuesta Indecente", which peaked at #79...

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Thanks to exposure from the recent Grammy Awards two Sundays ago country singer Kacey Musgraves, who took home the prizes for Best Country Album and Best Country Song (for "Merry Go Round"), enters at #60 with her weed and gay love song, "Follow Your Arrow". It beats "Merry..." by three notches. This is the song she performed at the show...

Another Grammy performer that pops on the chart is Australian country musician Keith Urban, with the third single from his Fuse album, "Cop Car", at #74. The first two made the top-40, with "We Were Us" going to #26....

Country rocker Eric Church follows up "The Outsiders", which stalled at #51, with "Give Me Back My Hometown", which enters at #89...

R&B singer K. Michelle, who has appeared in the Atlanta and New York editions of the faux-reality show Love And Hip Hop, drops in at #94 with "Can't Raise A Man". It's her second to make the Hot 100; the first, "VSOP". went to #89...

The last entry on the Hot 100 at #100 is Imagine Dragons, whose "Radioactive" shoots up to #13 in its 75th week, as fourth single "On Top Of The World" is in the bottom position...

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

On the Mainstream Top-40 radio panel, Pitbull and Ke$ha do-se-do for a third week on top with "Timber"...

British producer and musician Naughty Boy claims the highest debut at #36 with "La La La" featuring vocals from Sam Smith. The single went to #1 last year in the UK and is my "Pop Pick of the Week"...

 Beyonce' and hubby Jay Z take their #1 R&B hit "Drunk In Love" to this format at #37....

#1 placeholder Pitbull cameos at #38 on Enrique Iglesias' "I'm A Freak"....

Making his debut at #39 is DJ Snake with "Turn Down For What" featuring rapper Lil' Jon...

 Meanwhile, on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 pop format, British indie folkster Passenger rides to #1 with "Let Her Go"...

Pharrell Williams leaps on to the chart at #29 with "Happy"....

The aforementioned "On Top Of The World" comes in on this chart at #37...

Singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson lands at #38 with "Kinks Shirt". It's the second single from his Last Of The Great Pretenders album, after the #35 "Mission Bells"...

The last new one here at #40 is Miley Cyrus with "Adore You". It follows "Wrecking Ball", which topped out at #7 on this format...

Lastly, on the Adult Contemporary (or Easy Listening) chart, Katy Perry's "Roar" reigns for an eleventh non-consecutive week...

Finally a song from the #1 album in the land, the soundtrack to Disney's Frozen, arrives at radio as Idina Menzel's version of "Let It Go" debuts at #27. It's the Broadway star's second single to make this chart; she previously hit #19 with "Brave" (not from the animated Disney movie)...

While Lorde's Grammy-winning "Royals" sits at #4 at this format, her next single "Team" sneaks in at #30...

That's all for the start of today's musical journey....I'll return in 90 minutes with the latest on rock radio...