Animal Collective Retains The #1 Spot

Do campus radio programmers across this country want Charty Chart Chat to eat its words? How's that for the lamest of conspiracy theories?

About a month ago, Charty Chart Chat was lamenting playlists filled with old albums that had passed their best before dates at Christmas. But February has come in like a lion, as new albums abound on the chart and are pushing old favourites off.

Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion remains at #1 for a second week, but the runner-up is the surprisingly upwardly mobile new album by The Hylozoists. L'Ile De Sept Villes jumps 23 places to #2, forcing The Bicycles' Oh No, It's Love down a notch to #3.

Antony & The Johnson's The Crying Light rises three positions to #4 and is followed by the second of three big movers in the top 10, Andrew Bird's Noble Beast, at #5. Bird's album rose 31 spots from its debut last week. Andre Ethier's Born Of Blue Fog beats that and jumps 39 places to #6.

Timber Timbre's self-titled release falls three positions to #7. Los Campesinos!' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed slides five spots to #8 and is followed by Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees' eponyomous debut, which slips four notches to #9. Woodpigeon's Treasury Library Canada rises nine places to #10.

The self-titled album by New York's Pains Of Being Pure At Heart arrives at #12 to earn this week's illustrious Chart Sizzler Award. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart appeared on seven campus charts: CJSR (Alberta) at #3; CJAM (Windsor) at #8; CFUV (Victoria) at #11; CHUO (Ottawa) and CILU (Lakehead) at #12; CJSW (Calgary) at #17 and CFRE (Erindale) at #26.

New Pornographers leader A.C. Newman's Get Guilty enters the chart at #18. There are 12 new entries from #24 through to #40, including Jon-Rae Fletcher's Oh, Maria at #26, Hot Panda's Volcano... Bloody Volcano at #30 and Franz Ferdinand's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand at #39.

Three of the specialty charts feature new #1 albums. Kreator's Hordes Of Chaos jumps five spots to gain the #1 spot on the Metal/Punk chart, Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees rises six positions to grab the top spot on Electronic, and Novalima's Coba Coba rises three places to #1 on World/Folk.

The Peggy Lee Band's New Code registers its ninth straight week at #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart, while Madlib's Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute To... sits at #1 on the Hip-Hop top 10 for a second week.