Mother Mother Remains at #1

12/02/08 5:06pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

The reigning champion remains at the top of the Canadian campus radio chart this week.

Mother Mother's O My Heart holds its #1 position for a third straight week, while The Dears' Missiles rises a place to #2. The Organ's Thieves experiences a resurgence in popularity and jumps 11 places to #3. The Souljazz Orchestra's Manifesto moves up a spot to #4, as does TV On The Radio's Dear Science to #5.

The Chart Sizzler this week is The Bicycles' Oh No, It's Love, which enters at #6. Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping drops three positions to #7, while Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane slides six spots to #8. Deerhunter's Microcastle jumps 14 positions to #9 and Love Is All's A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night rounds out the top 10 after slipping three positions.

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan's Sunday At Devil Dirt is the runner-up for debut of the week after entering at #21. Ookpikk's reconstituted (i.e. lengthened) Total Home-Job hits the chart at #28, while Mavis Staples' Live: Hope At The Hideout debuts at #33.

There were 11 chart re-entries this week. Marnie Stern's This Is It... sits at #11, followed by Stars' Sad Robots EP at #12. Novillero's A Little Tradition resurfaces at #29, followed by Library Voices' Hunting Ghosts & Other Collected Shorts EP at #30 and Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs' Dirt Don't Hurt at #31. Elliott Brood's Mountain Meadows re-enters at #42 in its 19th week on the chart.

A couple of Flemish Eye albums continue to hang around, as Women's self-titled album remains at #41 in its 16th week on the chart. VanGaalen's Soft Airplane has logged 14 weeks.

Squarepusher's Just A Souvenir on the Electronic top 10, Moka Only's Carrots And Eggs on the Hip-Hop chart and The Souljazz Orchestra's Manifesto on the World/Folk chart remain at #1 in their third week on their respective charts. Amon Amarth's Twilight Of The Thunder God moves up a spot to recapture #1 on the Metal chart after a two-week absence, while The Peggy Lee Band's New Code parachutes into the #1 position on the Jazz/Blues top 10.