Beck Is The Chart Pope

Like a puff of white smoke rising from the Vatican, noting the final decision by the conclave of Cardinals has been made on choosing a new pope, here's notice that there's a new #1 on the Canadian campus radio chart. Long live the new pope.

Beck's The Information jumps five positions to grab the #1 spot from The Dears' Gang Of Losers, which falls to #2 after spending five of the last six weeks on top. Moving up two slots is The Decemberists' The Crane Wife to #3, which drops TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain down to #4. Rocketing up the chart 11 spots is B.A. Johnston's Call Me When Old And Fat Is The New Young And Sexy, which lands at #5.

Sliding down two positions is Les Georges Leningrad's Sangue Puro to #6, while Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton's Knives Don't Have Your Back remains at #7. Moving up 14 places to #8 is Brazilian Girls' Talk To La Bomb. Junior Boys' So This Is Goodbye rises a spot to #9, while Chad VanGaalen's Skelliconnection sinks eight spots to land at #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to K-OS' Atlantis — Hymns For Disco. It enters the top 50 chart at #20 with some solid support from a number of campus stations. CFRC (Queens) charted it at #1, CKDU (Dalhousie) placed it at #5 and CISM (Montreal) put it at #10.

Four Tet's Remixes arrives at #23, and Sparklehorse's Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain debuts at #30. Other notable new entries include Me First & The Gimme Gimmes' Love Their Country at #35, Blood Brothers' Young Machetes at #42 and Fucked Up's Hidden World at #44.

Last week the specialty chart saw a complete wipeout of #1s. This week, four of the five top 10 charts have new #1s, though two return to that spot. Chart cover artist K-OS sees Atlantis — Hymns For Disco jump five places to reach #1 in its second week on the Hip-Hop chart. This could possibly begin what could be a long ride, as K-OS' last album, Joyful Rebellion, still holds the record for longest stay on a specialty chart at 20 weeks. The only other new #1 is Dubmatix's Atomic Subsonic, which moves up three positions on the World/Folk chart. Returning to #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart after a week's absence is Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood's Out Louder, while Mastodon's Blood Mountain returns to #1 on the Metal/Punk top 10 after dropping out last week. The only #1 remaining from last week is Mini's Audio Hygiene on the Electronic chart.