The Dears Don't Budge From The Top

All of the top 10 entries on the national campus radio chart from last week remain there this week, with half of them not even changing places. The Dears' Gang Of Losers remains at #1, while Hidden Cameras' Awoo stays at #4, Les Georges Leningrad's Sangue Puro stands on guard at #7, Junior Boys' So This Is Goodbye is stuck at #9 and The Golden Dogs' Big Eye Little Eye hangs on to #10.The other five albums just switched positions, as Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass moves up a spot to #2 and Chad VanGaalen's Skelliconnection jumps two places to #3. TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain rises a single place to #5 and Shout Out Out Out Out's Not Saying/Just Saying vaults two spots to #6. With all of this jumping, someone has to be a big loser. The brunt of downward action lands in the court of one top 10 album, as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton's Knives Don't Have Your Back tumbles six positions to #8.

The Chart Sizzler honour goes to Brazilian Girls' Talk To La Bomb, which debuts at #14. The runner-up is Patrick Watson's Close To Paradise at #21, with Akron/Family's Meek Warrior following at #23. Other notable new entries include a trio of Canadian releases: Ox's American Lo-Fi at #26, Sandro Perri's Plays Polmo Polpo at #27 and Justin Rutledge's The Devil On A Bench In Stanley Park at #28.

There was a moderate level of change at the top of the specialty charts, as Mastodon's Blood Mountain moves up a spot to grab #1 on Metal/Punk. Elizabeth Shepherd Trio's Start To Move returns to the Jazz/Blues top 10 after a week's absence, and rockets all the way to #1. The other three charts feature returning #1s, as J Dilla's The Shining holds onto its position on the Hip-Hop chart, Junior Boys' So This Is Goodbye remains atop the Electronic top 10, and Ali Farka Toure's Savane still reigns over the World/Folk chart.