Pop Sweep: June 27, 2015...

I'm ready to kick off the first of today's five 'chart sweeps' checking out the songs making their debut on this week's music charts in Billboard magazine. As always I'll begin on the pop side of things, then later in the day roll out the latest in rock, R&B, country, and dance. And away we goooooo...

On the "big" chart, Billboard's Hot 100, which combines tallies of sales (like iTunes and AmazonMP3), internet streaming (like Spotify and YouTube), and radio airplay from all formats, Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" sees the #1 spot again for a ninth week...

For the second week out of three, the highest new entry on the Hot 100 belongs to Canadian alt-soul artist the Weeknd, who lands at #24 with "Can't Feel My Face". His winner from two weeks ago, "The Hills", sits one notch higher at #23, while his pop radio smash "Earned It (50 Shades of Grey)" is way up at #8...

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Houston rapper/producer Travi$ Scott scores his own first hit on the chart at #82 with "3500" featuring Future and 2 Chainz...

Antipodean country superstar Keith Urban arrives at #86 with "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16". Keith's last album, Fuse, sent five singles to the Hot 100. He's had sixteen songs so far reach the top-40 here with "Kiss A Girl" reaching #16 in 2009...

Bronx-born bachata singer Prince Royce moves in at #92 with "Back It Up" featuring Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull. It's his second English-language hit; he took "Stuck On A Feeling" to #43 last year. Both will appear on his upcoming July release Double Vision...

Rap duo Rae Sremmurd enter at #94 with "This Could Be Us", the fourth single to make the Hot 100 from their debut Sremmlife album. The other three all made the top-40, with "No Type" reaching #16...

Country singer Brett Eldredge is in at #97 with "Lose My Mind", from his forthcoming sophomore effort. He previously ruled at #30 with "Don't Ya"...

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

On the Mainstream Top-40 radio panel,  Jason Derulo climbs to #1 for the fourth time with "Want To Want Me", while the aforementioned "Can't Feel My Face" rockets in at #19 (his "Earned It" which topped this chart now stands at #13)...

Omarian crosses over to the pop list at #34 with his #2 R&B airplay hit "Post To Be" featuring Chris Brown and Jhene Aiko. In 2007 he took "Ice Box" to #19 at this format...

YouTube singing star Tori Kelly follows up her top-20 T-40 radio hit "Nobody Love" with "Should've Been Us", which enters at #37...

Meanwhile, on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, Walk The Moon are on top for a sixth week with "Shut Up And Dance"...

Imagine Dragons are in at #34 with the second single from their Smoke + Mirrors album, "Shots". It follows "I Bet My Life", which peaked at #7 here...

French producer DJ Snake takes his #1 Dance Airplay hit "You Know You Like It" with British duo AlunaGeorge to this format at #36...

X Factor US finalists Fifth Harmony follow up their #36 hit "Sledgehammer" with the song at #39, "Worth It" featuring rapper Kid Ink...

Nick Fradiani, the singer from Connecticut who won the 14th season of American Idol (hell, I didn't even realize that) sends his first single "Beautiful Life" to this chart at #40..

Lastly, on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, Ed Sheeran holds tight at #1 for a fifteenth week with "Thinking Out Loud"...

Swedish alt-pop singer/songwriter Tove Lo slips in at #39 with "Talking Body"...

Folk-rock legend James Taylor returns at #30 with his latest, "Today Today Today", my "Pop Pick of the Week". He's been to #1 on this list five times, most recently with "What A Wonderful World" with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in 1978...

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