Charty Chart Chat: Frog Eyes Can Shed Tears Of Joy At #1 Again

If past experience with the top 50 chart has taught us anything, it's that there are no sure things. After a month of upheaval where there was a new #1 each week, Frog Eyes' Tears Of The Valedictorian returns as the top album for the second straight week.Placing a strong second is Feist's The Reminder, which falls some 300 points short of toppling Frog Eyes. Joel Plaskett Emergency's Ashtray Rock follows at #3 and Blonde Redhead's 23 drop a place to #4. Last week's Chart Sizzler winner, Bjork's Volta, rises six places to #5.

It was a heated battle for the Chart Sizzler Award this week. It initially looked like Wilco's Sky Blue Sky would have the top debut, but Miracle Fortress' Five Roses vaulted over it by one position in the final tally and landed at #6. Wooden Stars' People Are Different drops two places to #8, while You Say Party! We Say Die!'s Lose All Time stumbles four spots to #9. Elliott Smith's New Moon slips a notch to #10.

The National's Boxer arrives at #20, Montag's highly anticipated Going Places debuts at #27 and Datarock's self-titled release comes in at #37. The highest jump belongs to The Sea And Cake's Everybody, which rockets up 31 places to #16. Going the other way, The Phonemes' There's Something We've Been Meaning To Do slides down 36 places to #48.

There were some significant changes on the specialty charts. Amon Tobin's Foley Room rises two spots to take over the top of the Electronic chart, and two of last week's #2 entries moved up a notch to secure honours: Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake's From The River To The Ocean on Jazz/Blues and Angelique Kidjo's Djin Djin on World/Folk. After a couple of weeks' absence, J Dilla's Ruff Draft reappears at #1 on the Hip-Hop top 10. The only #1 to survive from last week is Dimmu Borgir's In Sorte Diaboli on the Metal/Punk chart.