The Chart Time Tunnel looks at the campus radio top 50 from a decade ago. This week we set our attention on the campus chart for the week ending July 24, 2001.
The aptly titled twosome from Winnipeg, Duotang interrupted the five week stay at the top of the Canadian campus radio charts of Radiohead’s Amnesiac. It was a short stay for the duo’s swan song, The Bright Side. It was the only week the album stayed at #1. Within the year of the release of this album, the two band members would go their separate ways with Rod Slaughter joining the Mod-tinged quartet, Novillero, which released their debut album in 2002.
The band’s three album discography all fared well on the campus radio charts. Duotang’s first appearance on a chart occurred in September 1996 when their The Message 7″ single debuted at #43, peaked at #21 and disappeared off the charts after five weeks. This single was a preview of their full-length, Smash the Ships and Raise the Beams.
The duo’s debut album arrived a week after the disappearance of The Message entering the chart at #17. Several weeks later it rose to #2, a position the album held for two weeks. Smash the Ships and Raise the Beams stayed for a total of 14 weeks on the chart.
Two years later in June 1998, the band released The Cons & The Pros. This album entered at #50 and did Smash The Ships one better, capturing the #1 album spot for the week of July 14, 1998. The Cons & The Pros would eventually hold on to a spot on the chart for 15 weeks.
The Bright Side debuted #33 in six weeks earlier and would remain on the chart for 17 weeks.
Looking at the rest of the campus chart that week, Radiohead’s Amnesiac fell a spot to #2, while SIANspheric’s Sound Of The Colour Of The Sun jumped three places to #3 and Ron Sexsmith’s Blue Boy followed suit rising a three-spot to #4. These two jumps forced former #1, Rufus Wainwright’s Poses down a place to #5.
North Of America’s This Is Dance Floor Numerology rose two posiitons to #6 and Air’s 10,000Hz Legend dropped four places to #7.
Weights & Measures’s Tonight The Lower Abdominals rose two places to # jumping over Mayor McCa’s Me Is He which held at #9 followed by Bran Van 3000′s Discosis, which fell five places to #10.
The highest debut of the week arrived at #17 as Built To Spill’s Ancient Melodies Of The Future blew away the new entry competition. The next highest new entry appeared 17 places below Built To Spill as Alfie’s If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing entered the chart at #34.
Other debuts of some note include Joe Henry’s Scar arriving at #41, Tom Wilson’s Planet Love debuting at #45 and Firewater’s Psychopharmacology entering at #48.
It’s a rarity when an album enters the campus chart returns at a higher positon than thetop debut. Afro Celt Sound System’s Volume 3: Further In Time re-entered at #16 after an abesnse of two weeks.
It was a week where there wasn’t alot of extreme chart movement.
Squarepusher’s Go Plastic had the largest gain that week rising 20 places to #28 followed by Tindersticks’ Can Our Love… jumping 17 spots to #26.
Three albums fell 14 places from the previous week, Tool’s Lateralus dropped to #29, Mogwai’s Rock Action to #31 and Alejandro Escovedo’s A Man Under The Influence tumbled to #48.
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