Bicycles Ride Into 2009 At #1

The holiday malaise continues this week as the number of contributors remains low.

The Bicycles' Oh No, It's Love continues its dominance on the top 50 campus radio chart, holding on to the #1 spot for a fourth week. Los Campesinos!' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed moves up two places to #2, with B.A. Johnston's Stairway To Hamilton dropping a spot to #3.

The Nothing On But Your Radio: Live Sessions From CJSW 90.9 compilation rises six places to #4, followed by The Dears' Missiles jumping 14 places to #5. Missiles peaked at #2 five weeks ago. Bloc Party's Intimacy also experiences a resurgence with a six-place jump to #6. This album rose to #8 on the chart two weeks ago.

TV On The Radio's Dear Science drops two positions to #7, while The Souljazz Orchestra's Manifesto slips a spot to #8 and Tony Dekker's Song Sung Blue EP slides a notch to #9. Jenny Omnichord 's Charlotte Or Otis: Duets For Children, Their Parents And Other People Too rises eight places to #10.

Quite a variety of material debuted this week. An old live album from a veteran Canadian rocker appeared for the first time along with a couple of regional bands who got some national airplay and even a Christmas album.

The Chart Sizzler Award for highest debut goes to the self-titled album from Timber Timbre, which enters at #12. Neil Young's Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968 debuts at #17 and is immediately followed by Justice's A Cross The Universe at #18 and The Magic's eponymous release at #19.

The Magic has been appearing on the CFRU (Guelph) chart for more than a month. This week it appeared on the charts of three other stations: #9 on CIUT (Toronto), #11 on CHRW (Western) and #20 on CFMU (McMaster).

Other notable new entries include The Guest Bedroom's Treading Water/Blowing Smoke EP at #27, The Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars at #32 and another Guelph, Ont.-based band, Green Go, at #45 with their Ghosts Of The Future EP.

Moka Only's Carrots And Eggs is growing roots at #1 on the Hip-Hop chart. It's spent seven weeks at #1, while The Peggy Lee Band's New Code has remained at #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10 for five weeks. Neither of these titles have spent a week at any other position on their respective chart, as they both debuted at #1 and have stayed there.

Amadou & Miriam's Welcome To Mali has spent four weeks at #1 on the World/Folk chart. After spending eight weeks on the Electronic top 10, CFCF's Panesian Nights EP finally hits #1.

Enslaved's Vertebrae moves up a place to #1 on the Metal/Punk chart. It's been a bit of a fight at the top of this chart recently, with seven changes to the #1 album. Vertebrae has spent eight weeks on the chart and also sat at #1 in its third and sixth weeks.

Finally, Armoury Records' We Wish You A Metal Xmas... And A Headbanging New Year compilation arrives at #3 on the Metal/Punk chart after some holiday airplay. The Jazz/Blues chart featured support for the Putumayo Presents: A Jazz & Blues Christmas and the Peanut Butter Wolf Presents: Badd Santa compilation. Both appeared on a couple of station charts, but this wasn't enough for them to appear on the specialty charts.