Rock Sweep: February 21, 2015...

Round two of this week's "chart sweeps" is up, checking out the songs making their debut on the radio charts in Billboard magazine. This time I've lot the latest hits on rock radio...

On their main Rock Airplay chart, the Foo Fighters spend a sixteenth week at #1 with "Something From Nothing"...

"Mainstream" punk veterans the Offspring return with the highest new entry of the week at #26 with "Coming For You". In 2012, they climbed to #4 with "Days Go By"...

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My "Rock Pick" from last week, "My Type" from Saint Motel, makes the big rock chart at #44. The track moves up to #30 on the Alternative format as well...

British alt-rock band the Kooks move in at #39 with "Bad Habit", which also jumps to #26 on the Alternative list....

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

On the Mainstream Rock radio panel Three Days Grace rack up their third week on top with "I Am Machine", while the aforementioned Offspring track leaps in at #23. (They topped this chart in 1997 with "Gone Away")

 AWOLnation arrive at #32 with "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)", my "Rock Pick of the Week". The track also moves up to #17 on the Alternative chart. The song comes in one notch higher than their breakthrough hit "Sail" peaked back in 2011...

Hard rock band We Are Harlot, led by former Asking Alexandria lead singer Danny Worsnop, debuts at #38 with their first hit "Dancin' On Nails"...

Hinder is back at #39 with "Hit The Ground". The veteran hard rock group have five top-10 hits to their name so far, with both "Use Me" from 2008 and pop hit "Lips Of An Angel" from 2006 both peaking at #3...

Alt-metal act 10 Years returns at #40 with "Miscellanea" from their upcoming From Birth To Burial album. They climbed to #2 on this chart in 2005 with "Wasteland"...

Meanwhile, on the Alternative/Modern Rock chart, "Cigarette Daydreams" from Cage The Elephant stay on top for a fourth week, while the Offspring jump in at #31 (they topped this list three times so far in their career, most recently with "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" in 2008...

The third single from South African modern rock act KONGOS, "I Want To Know", enters at #39. Their first, "Come With Me Now", went to #1 here...

Lastly, on the Triple-A (adult album alternative, or "hipster rock") format, Imagine Dragons land their first #1 hit with "I Bet My Life"...

Alt-bluegrass act the Punch Brothers (led by Chris Thile of Nickel Creek) claim the sole new entry of the week here at #30 with "I Blew It Off"...

 I'll return in an hour and a half with the latest on R&B radio...