Luke Doucet's Blood's Too Rich For The Rest Of The Competition

The top 50 chart has seen both hip-hop (Buck 65's Situation) and electronic (Holy Fuck's LP) albums sit at #1 in the past month. Last week, a good old garage rock album (The Evaporators' Gassy Jack And Other Tales) held down the top spot. Now it's time for a roots rock record to ascend to #1, as Luke Doucet And The White Falcon's Blood's Too Rich makes a six-place jump.

This is by no means a first for the sub-genre, as several Sadies and Wilco albums have sat at #1 in the past, but it's a first for Doucet. His previous three solo albums all charted, with his Aloha, Manitoba debut peaking the highest at #14 on May 25, 2001. His last album, Broken (And Other Rogue Stories), lasted on the top 50 for 10 weeks in the fall of 2005.

Looking at the rest of the top 10, Holy Fuck's LP experiences a resurgence and moves back up to #2. Daft Punk's Alive 2007 rises nine places to #3. Last week's #1, The Evaporators' Gassy Jack And Other Tales, drops three positions to #4. It's followed by Katie Stelmanis' Join Us, which falls a spot to #5. Buck 65's Situation slips four notches to #6, while newcomer Sam Shalabi's Eid rockets up 17 places to #7. Corb Lund's Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! regains its spot in the top 10 with a three-position rise to #8, while Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Ask Forgiveness EP drops three spots to #9 and The Hives' The Black And White Album slips a notch to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes west to the upstart new band from Edmonton, The Whitsundays. Their self-titled release debuts at #15 to beat out Lupe Fiasco's The Cool at #22 and Sleepless Nights' Turn Into Vapour at #26 to become the top debut of the week. Other notable new entries include Rocky Fortune's Back Of The Bee Side at #28 (not bad for an album to finally hit the chart after first charting on individual top 30s back in October), The Torrent's EP07 at #39 and Jason Collett's Here's To Being Here at #47.

Caribou's Andorra drops three spots to #21, which is also the total number of weeks the album has been on the chart. The Sadies' New Seasons rises nine places to #11 in its 16th week on the top 50. Five other albums have spent 13 weeks on the chart, the highest being the CBC Radio 3 Sessions Volume 3 compilation at #19. There are 14 albums in double digits in weeks spent on the chart, which we think is a new record.

Just one new album captures a #1 spot on one of the five genre-specific specialty charts. Beautiful Nubia And The Roots Renaisance Band's Kilokilo rises a notch to grab top spot on the World/Folk chart. Two previous #1 titles return this week. Richard Underhill's Kensington Suite re-enters on the Jazz/Blues at #1 after holding that position two weeks ago. Dillinger Escape Plan's Ire Works recaptured #1 on Metal/Punk, a place it held for three week before Christmas. Remaining at #1 are Buck 65's Situation on the Hip-Hop chart and Daft Punk's Alive 2007 on Electronic.