This week’s column will soon start to sound like a broken record, well more like a disk with a locked groove, the vinyl equivalent to CD’s hidden track, both as annoying as the shuffled concept album of today. For a fifth consecutive week, Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs holds the #1 position on the Campus Top 50 chart for the week ending Sept 21, 2010. And for a fifth week, it ain’t even close!
The Suburbs received 1718 point to rack up some impressive numbers that should easily solidify its spot as the #1 album for 2010. Land Of Talk’s Cloak & Cipher returns at #2 with 986 points. Wolf Parade’s Expo 86 holds onto its spot at #3 again this week followed by Les Savy Fav’s Root For Ruin which rises a place to #4.
After a week when the highest debut barely registering in the top 2/3 of the top 50, there’s a significant battle for the Chart Sizzler Award this week. The Black Angels’ Phosphene Dream enters the Top 50 chart at #5 beating out The Walkmen’s Lisbon debuting at #6. The difference was only six points Phosphene Dream’s 600 to Lisbon’s 594.
Tokyo Police Club * Champ falls three spots pushed down by the previous three entries. Winter Gloves’ All Red at #8 switches spots with Rae Spoon’s Love Is A Hunter which slides to #9. Rounding out the top ten, is last week #10 entry, Best Coast’s Crazy For You.
Caribou’s Swim hits 21 weeks on the top 50 chart this week, rising six places to #19. Now Swim has matched the run made by Caribou’s last album (2008 Polaris Winner) Andorra which logged 21 weeks on this chart between Aug 23, 2007 to Jan 24, 2008. New Pornographers’ Together falls 17 places to #38 lasting 20 weeks on the chart. Together. It’s the third time that that two 20 weeks + albums have co-habited the chart and the first since Joel Plaskett’s Three and Julie Doiron’s I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day did the trick during the first week of charts in 2010.
The secialty charts show a myriad of changes at the top of the respective top ten lists. Two feature the same #1 as last week, two feature a #1 album returning to the top spot. Only one top ten list has a totally new #1 title.
Iron Maiden’s The Final Frontier holds onto the #1 position on the Metal/Punk chart while Matthew Dear’s Black City holds to top spot on the Electronic chart. Each of these releases have spent two weeks on the chart.
The Roots’ How I Got Over rises a spot to recapture the #1 position on the Hip-Hop chart after only a week’s absence. The World Ends compilation pulls the same trick on the World/Folk top ten.
Finally, Fond Of Tigers’s Continent & Western rockets up the Jazz/Blues chart garnering the #1 spot pushing Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society down to #2 this week.
- Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs Is #1 On Top 50 Chart For Fourth Week
- Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs Three-Peats At #1 While Continuing Record Run
- Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs Remains At #1 For Second Week
- Arcade Fire’s Suburbs Almost Breaks Records With Rise To #1 On Campus Chart
- Pallett’s Heartland Holds #1 For Sixth Week!
