Charty Chart Chat: Spoon Reclaim Top Spot

There's a battle in progress at the peak of the top 50 chart as the previous champ, Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga returns to #1 after a week's absence when They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'s Pick Up Sticks sat at #1. This week the Horses drop to #2 followed by Metric's Grow Up & Blow Away which remains steadfast at #3 again. Interpol's Our Love To Admire switches positions with Caribou's Melody Day EP, flipping from #7 to #4 and vice versa. Russian Futurists' Me, Myself And Rye rockets up the chart 26 places to land at #5 while Immaculate Machine's Fables remains at #6. The self-titled release from Lightning Dust jumps eight places to #8 while Wax Mannequin's Orchard And Ire is anchored at #9. Rounding out the top of the charts is Two Hours Traffic's Little Jabs, which rises five spots to #10 this week.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Is Is EP, which enters the chart at #20 followed by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton's What Is Free To A Good Home arriving at #22 and Tegan And Sara's The Con right behind that at #23. CPC Gangbangs' Mutilation Nation enters the chart at #31, followed by 1990s' Cookies at #32 and National Parcs's Timbervision at #33. Eight of the bottom 10 entries on the top 50 chart are new. Of note among the debuts are Crooked Still's Hop High at #44, M. Ward's Duet For Guitars #2 at #47 and St. Vincent's Marry Me at #50.

The specialty charts have had some movement on two out of five of the top tens. Jennifer Scott Quartet's Live At The Cellar remains at #1 on the Jazz/Blues top ten for a second week; Dobet Gnahore's Na Afriki has been stuck at #1 on the World/Folk chart for the fourth week in a row and 3 Inches Of Blood's Fire Up The Blades has dominated the Metal/Punk top ten for seven straight weeks.

The new #1s are the compilation, Now-Again Re: Sounds sliding up a spot to grab #1 on the Hip-Hop chart and Justice's † jumping up four places to grab top spot in its second week on the Electronic chart. Also of interest on the Electronic chart is the return of Lesbians On Ecstasy's We Know You Know at #9, which last appeared on this top ten during the week of April 20, 2007. That's 13 weeks ago, an eternity on a specialty chart.