Spoon Are This Summer's Sonic Youth

Last summer, the album that received the most airplay was Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped, which remained at #1 for five weeks in July. This year, another American band have dominated Canadian campus radio airwaves, as Austin, Texas quartet Spoon remain at #1 with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which has been at the top of the chart for five of the last seven weeks.

Tegan And Sara's The Con moves up a spot to #2, followed by Okkervil River's The Stage Names, which rises five places to #3. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton's What Is Free To A Good Home? drops two notches to #4, while last week's Chart Sizzler winner, The Doers's Gaiety, jumps five places to #5. Russian Futurists' Me, Myself And Rye slips down a singleton to rest at #6, while Architecture In Helsinki's Places Like This rises six spots to #7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Is Is EP drops four positions to #8, while Interpol's Our Love To Admire re-enters the top 10 with a two-place move up to #9. Metric's Grow Up & Blow Away falls three positions to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to Caribou's Andorra, which arrives at #16 after appearing on eight individual charts, including a #2 appearance on CFRC (Queen's), #7s at CHMA (Mount Allison) and CJAM (Windsor), and a #8 at CHRW (UWO). The runner-up new entry at #18 is a reissue that's appeared in the top 50 before: Hylozoists' La Nouvelle Gauche. It was originally released in late 2001 by Brobdingnagian and entered the chart at #28 during the week ending April 5, 2002. It dropped to #36 the next week before leaving the chart for good, until now. The third new entry is Mirah And Spectratone International's Share This Place at #30. Other significant debuts include the Inbreds tribute compilation, Wanna Be Your Friend, at #36, Turbonegro's Retox at #40 and Girl Nobody's Balaclava Casino Heist at #49.

Three of the five specialty charts have new #1s. The one that jumped the most within its top 10 was the seven-position rise of Common's Finding Forever to #1 on the Hip-Hop chart. Papa Mambo's Crooked Cha moves up two positions to #1 on Jazz/Blues, while Sultans Of String's Luna re-enters the World/Folk chart at #1 after bowing out two weeks ago. Justice's † remains at #1 on the Electronic chart and Red Chord's Prey For Eyes continues at #1 on the Metal/Punk top 10.