Arcade Fire's The Suburbs Remains At #1 For Second Week

The last week of August 2010 will be known as "The Complete Domination Of The Suburbs" in the small world of Canadian campus radio.

Arcade Fire's third album has completely decimated this week's competition, but also totally wiped out the single-week scoring total of 1,945 points recorded by The New Pornographers' Twin Cinema during the last week of September 2005.  

The Suburbs recorded a grand total of 2,077 points, becoming the first album to shatter the 2,000 point barrier. The album appeared on 29 individual campus charts used to compile the campus chart for the week Aug. 22 to 28. The Suburbs was the #1 album on nine stations, placed second on another four stations and #3 on three further stations. In fact, except for four lower entries, 25 stations charted Arcade Fire in their top 10. (Check out Twin Cinema's record-creating totals.)

The margin of difference between #1 and #2 is also the greatest compared to any previous week. Wolf Parade's Expo 86 comes in a distant second, holding onto #2. It received 988 points, less than 50 per cent of Arcade Fire's point totals.

Menomena's Mines remains at #3 again, followed by the upwardly-moving Best Coast's Crazy For You. That latter record jumps two spots to #4, while Rae Spoon's Love Is A Hunter holds on to the #5 position.

Winter Gloves' All Red leads a pack of titles that show a variety of movements. All Red rises eight places to #6. Sarah Harmer's Oh Little Fire remains glued to #7 again this week, and The Budos Band's The Budos Band III rises two spots while Wavves' King Of The Beach falls a spot to #9. Shapes And Sizes' Candle To Your Eye rounds out the top 10, rocketing up the chart 23 places to land at #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award for the highest debut of the week goes to Eamon McGrath's Peace Maker, which arrives at #14.

McGrath's closest competition comes from Pernice Brothers' Goodbye, Killer. That disc was originally released in early June and finally enters the campus chart at #18 over two months later.

Other notable new entries include Land Of Talk's Cloak & Cipher at #22, White Lung's It's The Evil at #26 and Minotaurs' The Thing at #33.

Caribou's Swim continues to survive on the top 50 chart, rising seven spots to #31 in its 18th week. The New Pornographers' Together falls three spots to #20 in its 17th week, and Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record slides down six places to #27 in its 16th week.

There was quite a return on the Metal/Punk top 10 that outshone all of the  activity on the specialty charts. Soulfly's Omen re-entered that chart at #1, which is a rare event on the generally sluggish genre-based chart. The Metal/Punk chart featured four debuts led by Iron Maiden's The Final Frontier at #5.

The only event to almost match this chart surprise was the #1 debut of Esperanza Spalding's Chamber Music Society followed by Archie Shepp's The N.Y. Contemporary 5 arrival at #2 on the Jazz/Blues chart. Things were hopping on that top 10, with The Budos Band's The Budos Band III debuting at #5 and Takao Iwaki's Introducing Takao Iwaki entering at #8.

The other three specialty charts feature the same #1s as last week. DVAS' Society is at #1 on the Electronic top 10, The Roots' How I Got Over remains top dog on the Hip Hop chart and The World Ends compilation is the ruler of the World/Folk chart.

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