Buck 65 Still Hangs On At The Top

Even though the ChartAttack office took more than a week off and there were no charts to compile last week, there's really not much of a difference from this week's chart compared to the last top 50 from two weeks ago, mainly due to the fact that the majority of charts used were from the pre-Christmas week ending Dec. 21.

The top three albums remain static as Buck 65's Situation continues at #1, followed by Holy Fuck's LP at #2 and Evaporators' Gassy Jack And Other Tales at #3. Below this trio, things start to become interesting. Plants And Animals' With/Avec EP vaults seven positions to #4. Making an even bigger jump into the top 10 is Christine Fellows' Nevertheless, which rises 17 positions to #5. Barmitzvah Brothers' Let's Express Our Motives creeps up four spots to #6, followed by Cuff The Duke's Sidelines Of The City levitating seven spots to #7. Corb Lund's Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! drops four places to #8. The Sound Experiment: Live At CJSW compilation remains at #9, with Radiohead's In Rainbows dropping to #10.

There are a surprising number of new entries this week after so few on the last chart. The highest debut is Daft Punk's Alive 2007 at #26, winning the last Chart Sizzler Award for 2007. The runner-up debut at #30 is Tony Wilson 6tet's Pearls Before Swine, which isn't actually brand new after having already spent time on the Jazz/Blues top 10 — including hitting #1 two charts ago. Slowking's Rival Cities at #31, Sunparlour Players' Hymns For The Happy at #42 and Ridley Bent's Buckles & Boots at #49 are other new entries.

Three of the five specialty charts feature returning #1 albums. Buck 65's Situation continues to sit at the top of the Hip-Hop chart, Holy Fuck's LP does the same on the Electronic chart, and Youssou N'Dour's Rokku Mi Rokka has a stranglehold on World/Folk. Brad Turner Quartet's Small Wonder takes over the turbulent Jazz/Blues top 10, moving up from #2. Paroxysm's Scars Of The Art makes a five-place jump to grab top honours on the Metal/Punk chart.