Charty Chart Chat: Interpol Earn Love And Admiration

I have a recollection that last August I commented on there being an increased level of displacement among #1 albums on the top 50 chart during that month. It seem that trend has returned again, as we have a new #1 for the third week in a row.

Current Chart magazine cover-boys Interpol see Our Love To Admire climb from #4 to #1 for the week ending Aug. 10. Metric's Grow Up & Blow Away moves back up a notch to #2, while Russian Futurists' Me, Myself And Rye rises two places to #3. Last week's chart-topper, Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, drops to #4, while Immaculate Machine's Fables rises one place to #5. Another recent #1 album, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'s Pick Up Sticks, drops four spots to #6. Tegan And Sara's The Con rockets up 16 spots to land at #7. Caribou's Melody Day EP slips down a place to #8, while Two Hours Traffic's Little Jabs inches up a spot to #9, and Lightning Dust's self-titled disc drops a couple of positions to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to Octoberman's Run From Safety, which enters the chart at #21. The runner-up is the Ska Is Dead compilation, which arrives at #30. Other important new entries include Okkervil River's The Stage Names at #37, Attack In Black's Marriage at #38 and the reissue of Cub's Betti-Cola at #46. That record originally topped the chart back in the pre-ChartAttack days in 1993. The specialty charts find two of the five #1s cemented at the top, as Dobet Gnahore's Na Afriki leads the World/Folk chart for a fifth week and 3 Inches Of Blood's Fire Up The Blades sews up #1 on Metal/Punk for an eighth straight week. Justice's † returns for a second round at #1 on the Electronic chart. Touch And Nato Are The Representatives' Intelligent Design rises a position to grab the pole position on the Hip-Hop top 10 and Yesterday's New Quintet's Yesterdays Universe: Prepare For A New Yesterday jumps three places to grab top spot on the Jazz/Blues chart.