Charty Chart Chat: Tokyo Police Club Charge To Top

After what seemed like months of island references (and I had more of them lined up), there's a new #1 on the Top 50 chart after seven weeks.

Tokyo Police Club's A Lesson In Crime debut climbs one space to grab the top spot in its fifth week on the chart. Also rising one place is Feist's Open Season: Remixes & Collabs, which sits at #2. Long-running chart champ Islands' Return To The Sea tumbles to #3. Sunset Rubdown's Shut Up I Am Dreaming jumps three spots to #4, while The Lovely Feathers' Hind Hind Legs dips to #5. Standing pat at #6 is Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones, while The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics moves up five spots to #7. The next three entries are all new to the top 10, with the most brilliant star in the chart galaxy belonging to Amy Millan's Honey From The Tombs after it rocketed from #37 to #8. Fiery Furnaces' Bitter Tea jumps four spots to #9 and The Paper Cranes' self-titled EP rises 11 places to grab #10.  

As for the Chart Sizzler Award, one's eyes must drop down the chart to #37 to find the first new entry, Don Caballero's World Class Listening Problem. All 10 debuts this week are found in the bottom 14 slots on the chart. Jolie Holland's Springtime Can Kill You arrives next at #38 and, after hanging around for at least six months on a couple of individual charts, Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll finally hits the main chart at #39. Other notables are Asobi Seksu's Citrus at #42, Mission Of Burma's The Obliterati at #48 and The Leather Uppers' Bright Lights at #50.

There was significant turnover on the specialty charts, with three new #1s and two artists returning to the summit. Cannibal Corpse's Kill remains atop the Metal/Punk chart and The Coup's Pick A Bigger Weapon sticks at #1 on the Hip-Hop chart. Medeski, Martin & Wood's Note Bleu returns to #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10, while Coldcut's Sound Mirrors moves up five places to grab #1 on the Electronic chart. Finally, debuting at #1 on the World/Folk chart is Extra Golden's OK-Oyot System.