Braids‘ Native Speaker appears have grown roots at the top of the campus radio chart. Native Speaker has held the #1 position for a fifth straight week. Over that five week period, Braids have racked up some very impressive numbers for a relatively unknown band when they released this debut album. This week it received 1576 points (compared to the #2 album receiving 1303 points). Over the past three charts Native Speaker received similar point totals – 1565 points last week and 1578 points two weeks ago. This is statistically relevant due to the low variance in the point totals over this three week period.
This week, Destroyer’s Kaputt returns to the #2 position, a place it held during the second and third weeks of Braids’ #1 run. Kaputt flips places with The Decemberists’ The King Is Dead, the only other album to sit at #2 in the past five weeks.
Rural Alberta Advantage’s Departing rises five places to land at #4 followed by Mogwai’s Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will holding its place at #5 again this week. Hey Rosetta!’s Seeds jumps five places to #6 forcing Wanda Jackson’s The Party Ain’t Over down a position to #7
Iron And Wine’s Kiss Each Other Clean drops four places to #8 placing it on spot ahead of a couple of upwardly-moving releases, Shotgun Jimmie’s Transistor Sister jumping 12 spots to #9 and The Dears’ Degeneration Street rising 14 places to #10.
Two albums in the lower 20s battled for the top debut this week. PJ Harvey‘s Let England Shake arrived at #27 with 296 points eeking out a victory over Dinosaur Bones’ My Divider which garnered 292 points entering the chart at #28. Thus Miss Polly Jean is the Chart Sizzler Award winner this week.
Oliver Swain’s In A Big Machine at #32 is the third highest new entry followed by Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs at #38 and Peter Elkas’ Repeat Offender at #39.
There are two albums with 20 or more weeks service on the chart this week as Black Mountain’s Wilderness Heart rises 14 places to #33 in its 22 week on the charts. Arcade Fire‘s The Suburbs, receiving an increase in airplay after their Grammy win two weeks ago, returns to the campus chart after a five weeks absence re-entering at #44.That gives the album a total to 25 weeks service on the campus chart, beginning back in early August last year.
This extra week places The Suburbs in a three-way tie with New Pornographers’ Mass Romantic and Caribou’s Swim. The three-way tie exists for the longest running album at 26 weeks between Sloan’s One Chord To Another, Bran Van 3000′s Glee and New Pornographers’ Together.
The five specialty charts saw a majority of its #1 albums replaced this week.
The Nightcrawlers’ Down In The Bottom rises two places to take over the #1 spot on the jazz/Blues chart. This chart also featured two new entries: Graham Reynolds And The Golden Arm Trio’s Duke! Three Portraits Of Ellington at #5 and Michelle Gregoire’s Diversity at #6.
Crowbar’s Sever The Wicked Hand rockets up five places to grab the 31 spot on the Metal/Punk top ten. There were two low new entries here with Neuraxis’ Asylon arriving at #8 and Lazarus AD’s Black Rivers Flow debuting at #10.
The Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia & Descarga Sound Of Colombia 1962-72 compilation jumps five place to beome the #1 album on the World/Folk chart that also sees the Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque enter at #5.
The other two charts are a tale of two different chart contents though both have a repeating #1 disc in its third week on the chart.
Buck 65′s 20 Odd Years holds on to the #1 spot on the Hip-Hop chart with the only album this week not appearing last week is Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom’s Duppy Writer which re-enters this specialty chart for the first time almost three months. It was last seen during the week of November 2, 2010 at #4.
Cut Copy’s Zonoscope repeats as the #1 album on the electronic top ten that features the most debuts this week among the five specialty charts. heRajiKa Tracks’ Love Universal enters at #5 to the lead the trio of new entries.
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