Charty Chart Chat Version 2.0

Like Alice falling through the rabbit hole in Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, the rest of the world gets to join the ChartAttack staff in a whole new world with ChartAttack 2.0. This is the first Charty Chart Chat for the new CA era. The new site has brought many changes, and we plan to have more interactivity between writers and readers.

How will the charts section change, you ask? It'll be easier to move backwards through either the top 50 campus chart or the five top 10 specialty charts. You won't have to deal with hard links buried in pages upon pages anymore. The site search engine will bring up chart content if you effectively focus your search criteria. The concatenated charts featuring the individual charts from radio stations are gone for good. It seemed that few people actually visited those pages over the past decade... so there's no great loss there. A couple of other bells and whistles in the charts section give you the ability to see the charts from five and 10 years ago on the charts landing page. There's also a "Time Machine" that allows you to find a specific weekly chart from any of the six we publish. Go and have some fun in the new ChartAttack universe.

Let's have a peek at the six charts dated Aug. 31 to Sept. 6. After a two-week absence from #1 on the top 50 campus chart, Wolf Parade's At Mount Zoomer returns there after jumping over Brendan Canning's Something For All Of Us..., which remains at #2. Beck's Modern Guilt moves up a spot to #3 and is followed by the four-place jump of The Stills' Oceans Will Rise to #4. Human Highway's Moody Motorcycle holds on at #5. The self-titled release by Women drops five notches to #6, while Elliott Brood's Mountain Meadows slips a notch to #7, with King Khan & The Shrines' The Supreme Genius Of King Khan & The Shrines rising by two to #8. Rounding out the top 10 are The Pack A.D.'s Funeral Mixtape at #9 and Stereolab's Chemical Chords, which jumps 40 places to #10.

You Say Party! We Say Die!'s Remik's Cube is this week's Chart Sizzler, coming in at #13. It was prominently featured on five individual campus charts — at #1 on CFRU (Guelph), #5 on both CIUT (Toronto) and CJAM (Windsor), #7 on CISM (Montreal) and #8 on CJLO (Concordia). Other notable new entries include The Dead Science's Villainaire at #20, The Faint's Fasciinatiion at #28 and The Wombats' A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation at #32.

The five specialty charts have had some significant changes over the past week. Michael Moore & Fred Hersch's This We Know debuts at #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10, while Marco Castillo's Brazilian Season jumps two spots to capture #1 on World/Folk. The other three charts feature returning #1s: Moka Only's Clap Trap on Hip-Hop; Fuck The Facts' Disgorge Mexico on Metal/Punk; and the eponymous release by Hercules And Love Affair on Electronic.