Country Sweep: September 6, 2014...

Part four of today's "chart sweeps" checks out the latest country songs on Billboard magazine's radio chart....

The #1 song for a second week on the Country Airplay chart is Dierks Bentley's "Drunk On A Plane"...

Blake Shelton rockets in at #18 with the first single from his upcoming album Bringing Back The Sunshine, "Neon Light". Can he extend his streak of twelve #1 singles on this chart? Probably inevitable. He's got the full promo action of The Voice behind him, and by now is really the "old guard" of current country radio (scary, eh?). Sure,the song itself is a crowdsource piece of fluff, and he wouldn't be caught dead in a cowboy hat anymore, but at least it's no "Boys 'Round Here". I just wish Miranda would have more of an influence on him than the other way around.

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Rockin' rebel country duo Montgomery Gentry, who were doin' this current country fad way back in the day, return at #52 with "Headlights", from their upcoming first studio album in four years. They've been to #1 five times, the most recent with "Roll With Me" in 2008. It sounds like they're playing a bit of catch-up though with cliches being overserved...

And sneaking in on country radio is Taylor Swift, who racks enough plays of her pop hit "Shake It Off" to place at #58...

I'll wrap things up in an hour and a half with the latest dance jams in the clubs and on the radio. Twang on!