Immaculate Machine Take Top Spot In Slow Week

Is it the sun, the warm weather or the lack of a full-time school curriculum that causes many Canadian campus radio station music directors to begin to slack off when it comes to compiling their station's charts on a weekly basis? Whatever the reason, contributions this week were down approximately 50 per cent and the impact on the top 50 chart is quite noticeable.

The top album of the week is Immaculate Machine's Fables, which jumps three spots. Also moving up three positions is the Stars remix album, Do You Trust Your Friends?, which sits at #2. After debuting in the top 10 and quickly falling back, Miracle Fortress' Five Roses rises eight spots to #3. Frog Eyes' Tears Of The Valedictorian drops two places to #4, while The National's Boxer scampers up 10 positions to #5. Last week's #1 album, Feist's The Reminder, plummets five spots to #6. Bjork's Volta rebounds nicely and rises three spots to #7. Montag's Going Places rockets up 18 places to #8. Battles' Mirrored remains at #9 and Shapes And Sizes' Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner rounds out the top 10 after dropping three spots.

We have to crane our necks a wee bit to find the Chart Sizzler Award winner this week. Tiger Army's Music From Regions Beyond enters the chart at #27, one of the lowest numbers for the highest debut in many months. The runner-up new entry CD belongs to Cinematic Orchestra's Ma Fleur at #31. Boats' Intercontinental Champion enters at #35. New metal favourites 3 Inches Of Blood's Fire Up The Blades arrives at #37 and also debuts on the Metal/Punk chart. Tim Armstrong A Poet's Life debuts at #45 and Guest Bedroom's Movement, which has been hanging around the chart for almost a year, creeps into the top 50 at #47.

While there was somewhat underwhelming movement on the top 50, it was quite stagnant in comparison to the five specialty charts, where four of them saw the same album return at #1. Montag's Going Places continues to rule the Electronic chart and Moka Only's Vermillion owns the Hip-Hop top 10. The dark horse, David Torn's Prezens returns at #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart, while Balkan Beat Box's Nu Med hangs on to the top spot on World/Folk. Both albums have spent two weeks at #1 on their respective charts. The only new champion is on the Metal/Punk countdown, where the #1 and #2 albums from last week flip positions. Despised Icon's The Ills Of Modern Man takes over the top spot, forcing Cephalic Carnage's Xenosapien to #2. Coming in at #3 as the top debut of all five specialty charts is the aforementioned 3 Inches Of Blood's Fire Up The Blades.