Rock Sweep: April 16, 2016...

Round two of this week's "music sweeps" is up with some of the best songs making the charts in Billboard magazine this week, and this time up is the latest on rock radio...

On their main Rock Airplay chart, the Cold War Kids spend a fourteenth non-consecutive week at #1 with "First"...

British rock band the 1975, who scored a #1 album in the U.S. with I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It, sees their infectious dance-rock hit "The Sound" make the main rock list at #39. It was a former "Rock Pick". A

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English singer/songwriter Courtney Barns takes his debut hit "Fire", from the Bradley Cooper chef-movie Burnt, to #43. He's currently also at #21 on the Triple-A radio chart. B

BISHOP, an indie-folk/rock musician from L.A., moves in at #45 with "River". C+

Lite-blues/rock singer Ray Lamontagne sets down at #50 with his top-3 Triple-A hit "Hey No Pressure", which takes my "Rock Pick of the Week" title. B+

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

On the harder-edged Mainstream Rock radio panel, Disturbed hold steady at #1 with their cover of "The Sound Of Silence"...

Icelandic modern rock act Kaleo sink in at #40 with their track from the HBO show Vinyl, "No Good". C

Meanwhile, on the Alternative/Modern Rock chart, twenty-one pilots spend a second week on top with "Ride"...

Norwegian songstress Aurora shines in at #39 with "Conqueror". C+

Newcomer Lewis Del Mar enters at #40 with his first hit, "Loud(y)". C+

Lastly, on the Triple-A (Adult Album Alternative, or "hipster rock") format, The Lumineers are on top for a fifth week with "Ophelia"...

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