Caribou's Andorra Reaches The Top

Though the kiddies are back at school and its frosh week at Canadian college and university campuses, this week's chart still reflects summer airplay. Many stations will have an influx of new or returning programmers and the big chart upheaval should begin next week as we head into what amounts to the campus radio equivalent of the Christmas blockbuster period for films or the May sweeps for television. September is the time for music from campus radio heavyweights to be released.

This week's #1 is one of those bigwigs. Jumping 15 places is last week's Chart Sizzler Award winner, Caribou's Andorra. Tegan And Sara's The Con remains at #2 and Okkervil River's The Stage Names remains entrenched at #3. Switching positions are The Doers' Gaiety at #4 and Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton's What Is Free To A Good Home at #5. Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga drops five places to #6 and is followed by Russian Futurists' Me, Myself And Rye, which slips a slot to #7. Architecture In Helsinki's Places Like This drops a position to #8, while Interpol's Our Love To Admire remains at #9.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to Nina Nastasia and Jim White's You Follow Me, which enters at #10. Stereo Total's Paris-Berlin arrives at #14, New Young Pony Club's Fantastic Playroom debuts at #21 and The New Pornographers' Challengers checks in at a surprisingly low #23. Old Soul's Silver Summer EP at #27 and M.I.A.'s Gala at #30 are the other top debuts.

Of the longest surviving albums on the top 50, Feist's The Reminder drops 16 places to #40 in its 18th week on the chart. Battles' Mirrored jumps 17 positions in its 15th week, while Immaculate Machine's Fables drops a spot to #12 after 14 weeks.

The specialty charts are seeing substantial changes farther down, but no completely new #1s. Three of the five have returning #1s from last week: Justice' † on Electronic; Common's Finding Forever on Hip-Hop; and Papa Mambo's Crooked Cha on Jazz/Blues. On the other two specialty charts, the #1 album from a previous week recaptures the top position. 3 Inches Of Blood's Fire Up The Blades returns after a two-week absence on Metal/Punk and Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Dub Qawwali re-ascends to the top of the World/Folk chart after dropping to #4 last week.