Arcade Fire's The Suburbs Three-Peats At #1 While Continuing Record Run

Arcade Fire's reign at the top of the campus charts continues into the first week of September.

While The Suburbs didn't surpass its record-setting point total from last week, it came close, recording the second-highest total for a #1 album ever — 1,967 points, down from a total of 2,077 from the previous week.

Here's a look at the rest of the campus charts for the week Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 2010:

Land Of Talk's Cloak & Cipher vaulted into the #2 position with an impressive 20-point jump, collecting 1,050 points. That's more than 50 per cent of Arcade Fire's total. Land Of Talk's rapid rise forced former #1 Wolf Parade's Expo 86 down a spot to #3. It picked up 845 points.

Tokyo Police Club's Champ, another former #1 album, experienced a brief resurgence, rising seven positions to sit at #4, while Rae Spoon's Love Is A Hunter continued to hold the #5 position for a fourth consecutive week. Mr. Spoon's album has owned that spot on the chart since it debuted a month ago. This is the first time in the history of the charts that an album has spent the first four weeks on the chart in the same spot. That's a statistical anomaly!

The Chart Sizzler Award, given to the week's highest debut, goes to the #6 album holder, !!!'s Strange Weather Isn't It?. It received substantial chart support from three of the Alberta-based campus stations. It was #2 at CKXU (Lethbridge), #4 at CJSW (Calgary) and #15 at CJSR (Edmonton) as well as #7 on CFUV (Victoria).

The runner-up album for the Chart Sizzler Award this week was Siskiyou's self-titled release at #14. Ra Ra Riot's The Orchard entered at #17, Matthew Dear's Black City debuted at #25, Eric Chenaux's Warm Weather With Ryan Driver entered at #28 and The Gertrudes' Dawn Time Riot slipped in at #30.

There's still a hearty contingent of long-running albums remaining on this week's top 50 chart, with 11 titles having survived for at least 10 weeks, including two among the top four (Wolf Parade and Tokyo Police Club).

Caribou's Swim continues to lead the veteran pack. It fell 15 places to #46 in its 19th week.

Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record slipped 11 places to #36 in its 17th week on the chart, while The Sadies' Darker Circles rose three places to #29 after 16 weeks.

There was an impressive turnover among the titles on the Electronic top 10, with only three albums from the previous week surviving. It all started with a new #1 in its first week on this chart, Matthew Dear's Black City. !!!'s Strange Weather Isn't It? arrived at #3 and Morcheeba's Blood Like Lemonade debuted at #5.

While the World/Folk chart continued to be led by The World Ends compilation, there were three new chart entries below that spot. Anton Apostolov's Balkania After The Rain arrived at #5 with Oka's Love appeared at #6.

The Metal/Punk chart features a new #1, as Iron Maiden's The Final Frontier jumped four places to take over the top spot.

Archie Shepp's The N.Y. Contemporary 5 disc rose a more modest single place to sit at #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10, while The Roots' How I Got Over seems glued to the #1 position on the Hip Hop chart, holding that position for a sixth week in a row.

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