Animal Collective Celebrate Groundhog Day Success

As February begins and Bill Murray is trapped in Punxsutawney, Pa. in Groundhog Day, we have a change at the top of the top 50 campus radio chart. Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion rises three spots to usurp The Bicycles from the #1 position.

This jump pushes The Bicycles' Oh No, It's Love down to #2, while Los Campesinos!' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed remains at #3. Timber Timbre's self-titled album jumps four spots to #4, while the eponymous debut by Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees moves up one place to #5. Bruce Peninsula's A Mountain Is A Mouth is the biggest mover near the top of the chart, rising 26 places to #6.

The Chart Sizzler Award winner, Antony And The Johnsons' The Crying Light, arrives at #7. It's followed immediately by two other debuts: In-Flight Safety's We Are An Empire, My Dear at #8; and Brent Randall And His Pinecones' We Were Strangers In Paddington Green at #9. B.A. Johnston's Stairway To Hamilton drops eight places to #10.

There were 20 new entries and five re-entries in the top 50. Rokia Traore's Tchamantche debuts at #18, followed by Woodpigeon's Treasury Library Of Canada at #19 and Eleni Mandell's Artificial Fire at #20. Other noteworthy new entries include The Hylozoists' L'Ile De Sept Villes at #25, Andrew Bird's Noble Beast at #36 and Jason Bajada's Loveshit at #48. The one notable re-entry is The Waking Eyes' Holding On To Whatever It Is at #11. Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane broke the 20-week barrier this week while dropping 24 places to #39.

Artist Of The Year's Velour Brigade rises a spot to take over the #1 position on the Electronic chart in its eighth week. Madlib's Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute To... moves up five places to #1 on the Hip-Hop chart. Gojira's The Way Of All Flesh finally hits #1 on the Metal/Punk top 10 after 11 weeks on this chart.

Amadou & Miriam's Welcome To Mali continues to dominate the World/Folk chart for a seventh week. The Peggy Lee Band's New Code bests that, as it has spent eight out of eight weeks at #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart.