No Elevator Puns For Hot Hot Heat

A couple of weeks ago, ChartAttack's charts department welcomed a new contributor to the ranks when Lakehead University's CILU began sending weekly charts. This week, a veteran campus radio station, CHRY (York University) — among the first station contributors at the beginning of Chart Magazine in 1990 — comes out of chart Siberia. In fact, the idea for Chart was originally hatched in the bowels of CHRY by co-publishers Edward Skira and Nada Laskovski (CHRY alumni). This week, CHRY adds their say to the top 50 chart as well as to the Hip-Hop and Jazz/Blues charts. CHRY's new music co-ordinator is Robin Alam, whose email is chrymd@yorku.ca.

The jockeying for #1 continues this week as Hot Hot Heat's Elevator finally dethrones Bloc Party's two-week run at the top, as Silent Alarm falls to #2. Of Montreal's The Sunlandic Twins jumps five places to capture the #3 spot previously occupied by Spoon's Gimme Fiction, which dips to #4. Former #1, Joel Plaskett's La De Da, moves back up one place to #5, flip-flopping positions with P:ano's Brigadoon, which drops to #6. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band's Horses In The Sky makes a dramatic resurgence as this former top 10 album rockets up 18 places to #7. Decemberists' Picaresque rises one place to #8, Great Lake Swimmers' Bodies And Minds drop two spots to #9 and the big loser at the top of the charts is Beck: Guero drops six places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler award goes to the Dundas, ON native now known as Caribou — that is unless these hoofed mammals can retain proper legal representation to force Dan Snaith to change his moniker again. Caribou's new album, The Milk Of Human Kindness, debuts at #12. Caribou has a mitt full of supporters, including #1 status on the charts of CFBU (Brock), CFUV (Victoria) and CHUO (Ottawa).

Another Golden Horseshoe solo electronic artist places in the runner-up debut of the week as Russian Futurists' Our Thickness enters the charts at #27 ahead of Raveonettes' Pretty In Black at #28. Yo La Tengo's Prisoners Of Love sampler debuts at #31, Mice Parade's Bem-Vinda Vontade enters at #33 and Inflation Kills eponymous release bows in at #36 this week. The only other new releases are Roots Manuva's Awfully Deep at #46 and the Stereolab sampler of Oscillons From The Anti-Sun, which enters the charts at #48.

A quick look at the specialty charts shows that there's been little change at the top of any of them. M.I.A.'s Arular continues to rule the Hip-Hop chart and Alpha Yaya Diallo's Djama does the same on the World/Jazz chart for a seventh week in a row. William Parker Quartet's Sound Unity dominates the Jazz/Blues Top Ten, while Strapping Young Lad's Alien heads up the Metal/Punk chart this week again. The only new #1 is Caribou's The Milk Of Human Kindness, which debuts in the #1 position on the Electronic Top Ten, the first time one album has had the highest debut on two separate charts.