Foxy Case Is Still On Top

04/05/06 6:30pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood retains the top spot on the chart this week. Pink Mountaintops' Axis Of Evol moves up two places to grab the #2 spot, pushing Belle And Sebastian's The Life Pursuit down to #3. Magneta Lane's Dancing With Daggers inches up one place to #4 and Cat Power's The Greatest slides down two places to #5. Destroyer's Destroyer's Rubies shows a small resurgence by moving up two positions to #6, forcing Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not down to #7. Last week's Chart Sizzler, Mogwai's Mr. Beast, jumps up six more places to grab the #8 spot. Calexico's Garden Ruin rises one notch to #9 and The Diableros' You Can't Break The Strings In Our Olympic Hearts moves up two positions to #10.

Looking way down the chart, we find Hank Williams III's Straight To Hell coming in at #20 to claim the Chart Sizzler Award for this week. Its placement was mainly due to its #1 ranking on CFMU (McMaster). The grandson of hard drinkin' and druggin' country legend Hank Williams beat out the Paper Bag kids' compilation, See You On The Moon, in the chart debut race. Black Ox Orkestar's Nisht Azoy enters at #36 and Hoosier Poet's self-titled album arrives at #40. The three other debuts are Mates Of State's Bring It Back at #41, Liars' Drum's Not Dead at #43 and Aceyalone's Magnificent City at #46.

After some thought that Broken Social Scene's self-titled album didn't have the legs to make it into the Campus Radio Album Hall Of Fame, it's inching towards immortality by sitting at #35 after 21 weeks on the chart. It's the 11th album to reach this length of tenure, matching Bran Van 3000's Glee in September 1997 and Death From Above 1979's You're A Woman, I'm A Machine in February 2005.

Here's the complete list of the longest serving albums on the top 50 chart:

1. New Pornographers' Mass Romantic (25 weeks)
2. Royal City's Alone At The Microphone (24 weeks)
Hot Hot Heat's Knock Knock Knock EP (24 weeks)
4. New Pornographers' Electric Version (23 weeks)
5. Sloan's One Chord To Another (22 weeks)
Weakerthans' Left And Leaving (22 weeks)
Arcade Fire's Funeral (22 weeks)
Stars' Set Yourself On Fire (22 weeks)

While Chicago Underground Duo's In Praise Of Shadows moves up two places to #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10, the other four specialty charts have the same albums at the top as they did last week. J Dilla's Donuts remains #1 on the Hip-Hop chart, Sinewave's Unity Gain tops the Electronic top 10, the Congotronics 2 compilation remains entrenched at #1 on the World/Folk chart for a fifth week in a row and Kataklysm's In The Arms Of Devastation hangs on to the top spot on the Metal/Punk chart for a third week.