Canada Day Means Lots Of Canucks On Top

It's the beginning of July, and that means a three-day weekend, a short work week and Charty Chart Chat on Wednesday. With Canada Day just passing, it seems that programmers across the great red and white were more patriotic than normal, as eight of the top 10 albums this week are Canadian.

The #1 LP remains Immaculate Machine's Fables. It's followed by Metric's Grow Up & Blow Away, which whips up eight spots to #2. That leap dropped Feist's The Reminder to #3, while Joel Plaskett Emergency's Ashtray Rock is static at #4. Stars' Do You Trust Your Friends? remix album drops two places to #5 and Miracle Fortress' Five Roses slips a spot to #6. The only two non-Canadians in the top 10 are Wilco's Sky Blue Sky, which moves up two spots to #7 and pushes Battles' Mirrored down a place to #8. The self-titled release by Vancouver's Lightning Dust rises seven positions to #9 and a former #1, Frog Eyes' Tears Of The Valedictorian, moves up four places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award winner is Carolyn Mark's Nothing Is Free, which arrives at #15 and beats out The White Stripes' heavily favoured Icky Thump, which debuts at #18. Ford Pier's Organ Farming can attribute its #25 debut to the #1 position it attained from CFRU (Guelph). The bottom of the top 50 chart is inundated with new entries, including Queens Of The Stone Age's Era Vulgaris at #35, The Pipettes' Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me at #44 and Dizzee Rascal's Maths + English at #48.

With Arcade Fire's Neon Bible dropping from the chart, You Say Party! We Say Die!'s Lose All Time is the longest-serving veteran at 15 weeks. The only other album in double digits of weeks on the chart is the #20 entry, Blonde Redhead's 23, which jumps up from #30.

There was little change on the specialty charts, as four #1s return again. Montag's Going Places has a stranglehold on the Electronic top 10, as does Moka Only's Vermillion on the Hip-Hop chart. Montag has been at #1 for four weeks, while Moka Only has ruled for five weeks. Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake's From The River To The Ocean remains atop the Jazz/Blues chart, as does 3 Inches Of Blood's Fire Up The Blades on Metal/Punk. The only new #1 is Balkan Beat Box's Nu Med, which led the World/Folk chart two weeks ago and finds itself on top again.