Rock Sweep: December 5, 2015...

Round two of this week's "music sweeps" is up with the latest hits on rock radio as monitored by Billboard magazine.

On their main Rock Airplay chart, the Cold War Kids spend a fifth week on top with "First"...

Blues-rock "supergroup" the Dead Weather, which includes Jack White of the White Stripes/Raconteurs, Alison Mossheart of the Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age, and Jack Lawrence also from the Raconteurs, make their chart debut at #47 with "I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)"...

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The Struts follow up their #4 hit "Could Have Been Me" with the song at #49, "Kiss This", my "Rock Pick of the Week"...

Australian singer/songwriter Jarryd James lands at #50 with "Do You Remember". The single went to #2 on the pop chart in his native country...

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

On the Mainstream Rock radio panel, Bring Me The Horizon jump to #1 with "Throne". It's their first to top the chart in America...

The third single from Missouri-based alt-metal band Shaman's Harvest's Smokin' Hearts and Broken Guns album, "In Chains", busts in at #39. The first, "Dangerous", climbed to #27...

As "Trip Switch" from British alternative rock group Nothing But Thieves reaches the top-20 on the Modern Rock chart, it crosses over to this harder-edged list at #40...

Meanwhile, on the Alternative/Modern Rock chart, twenty-one pilots remain on top for a third week with "Stressed Out"...

Danish dance rockers New Politics return at #36 with the third single from their Vikings album, "Girl Crush". They took the first, "Everywhere I Go (Kings And Queens)", to #19...

"Ditmas", the third release from folk-rockers Mumford & Sons' Wilder Mind set, shoves in at #38. The lead single "Believe" went to #1...

The current Mainstream Rock chart-topper, "Throne" from British metalcore band Bring Me The Horizon, crosses over to #39 here...

Lastly, on the Triple-A (adult album alternative, or "hipster rock") format, Adele's "Hello" is at #1 for a third week, while the aforementioned "Ditmas" from Mumford & Sons is the sole new entry at #30...

I'll return with the latest on R&B radio...