Beck's Information Is Still Valuable

After a week when several older albums took their place near the top of the Canadian campus radio chart, there's been an influx of young blood in the upper echelon.

Beck's The Information continues at #1, directly followed by The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, which jumps back up five places. Shotgun And Jaybird's Trying To Get Somewhere moves up a spot to #3, while The Dears' Gang Of Losers falls to #4.Me First & The Gimme Gimmes' Love Their Country jumps eight places to #5, while Stolen Minks' Family Boycott makes an even bigger leap, moving 19 positions to #6. K-OS' Atlantis — Hymns For Disco climbs three spots to #7, staying just ahead of the self-titled CD from Born Ruffians, which also jumped three places to #8. Remaining at #9 is B.A. Johnston's Call Me When Old And Fat Are The New Young And Sexy, while Ox's American Lo-Fi climbs 10 places to take over #10.

The Chart Sizzler award goes to that most beloved almost senior citizen, Tom Waits. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards enters the chart at #25 with strong support from just two stations: #1 on CFRU (Guelph) and #5 on CHSR (New Brunswick). Badly Drawn Boy's Born In The U.K. debuts at #34, while Avia Gardner's Mill Farm arrives at #36.

The specialty charts experienced turnover at the top of four out of the five top 10 lists, as three of last week's #2 albums ascend to the top: Four Tet's Remixes on Electronic, Tartit's Abacabok on World/Folk and Amon Amarth's With Oden On Our Side on Metal/Punk. Bettering all three of these moves is the #1 debut of Matthias Lupri Group's Metalix on the Jazz/Blues top 10. Only K-OS' Atlantis — Hymns For Disco succeeded in remaining at #1 from last week, as it holds down the top spot on the Hip-Hop chart.