Caribou Not Running Away

There's an old saying that seems fitting for each week in CCC land... "A day late and a dollar short." The usual chart posting process is shoved back a full day after a holiday Monday, thus the day late. But there was more than a buck spent this holiday weekend by your intrepid Charty Chart Chat reporter. Here's a quick look at the campus radio charts for the week ending May 20.

GTA native Caribou continues to hold down the Top 50 chart (and the electronic chart) for a second week with his latest album, The Milk Of Human Kindness. Remaining the runner-up again is Spoon's Gimme Fiction while Hot Hot Heat's Elevator is stuck at #3 for a second week. Moving up one spot to #4 is P:ano's Brigadoon and Of Montreal's The Sunlandic Twins jumps two places to #5. Russian Futurists' Our Thickness moves up eight places to #6 as Bloc Party's Silent Alarm slips down to #7 and Beck's Guero drops to #8. Architecture In Helsinki's In Case We Die surprises all with a nine spot jump to #9 followed by a return of former #1 — Joel Plaskett's La De Da, which soars up 15 places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler of the week belongs to Oneida's The Wedding, which debuts at #14. The Wedding received some Top 10 airplay from CFUV (Victoria at #2) and CJSR (Alberta at #9) as well as significant support from CFRC (Queen's), CILU (Lakehead), CJAM (Windsor), CJSF (Simon-Fraser), CJUM (Manitoba) and CKUT (McGill).

The second highest new entry of the week is Veda Hille's Return Of The Kildeer, arriving at #17, while Brian Borcherdt's The Remains Of Brian Borcherdt Volume 2 hits the charts at #20. Prairie hip hoppers Farm Fresh debut at #26 with Time Is Running Out. Other notable new entries include Out Hud's Let Us Never Speak Of It Again at #32, Ponys' Celebration Castle at #39 and SS Cardiacs' Fear The Love at #47. Black Mountain's self-titled debut re-enters the top 50 at #36. The record has now been charting for 17 weeks.

There's not much movement at the top of the specialty charts this week. The aforementioned Caribou album is locked in at #1 on the Electronic chart. William Parker Quartet's Sound Unity remains at #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart and the Love's A Real Thing compilation holds on to the #1 spot on the World/Folk Top ten. Prefuse 73's Surrounded By Silence EP slides up on place to #1 on the Hip-Hop chart and Cephalic Carnage's Anomalies follows suit, grabbing the #1 crown on the Metal/Punk chart.