Animal Collective Album Remains At #1

The top 50 campus chart continues to experience a major upheaval in its top third for a second consecutive week.

While Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion remains at #1 for a third week, the next two positions are occupied by albums that were nowhere near contention for the top prize last week.

A.C. Newman's Get Guilty jumps 16 places to #2 and is followed by Hot Panda's Volcano...Bloody Volcano, which rockets 27 places to #3. The Hylozoists' L'Ile De Sept Villes, which looked poised to take over #1 last week, falls two places to #4.

Malajube's Labyrinthes enters the chart at #5, making it the highest debut since Animal Collective's dazzling entry at #4 three weeks ago. The Bicycles' former chart-topper, Oh No, It's Love, slips three places to #6. Los Campesinos!' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed rises a place to #7 and Woodpigeon's Treasury Library Canada improves by two spots to #8.

Andrew Bird's Noble Beast falls four places to #9. Bird, along with The Hylozoists and Andre Ethier (who dropped to #14 this week), formed the trio of last week's big movers that fell back this week. Jenn Grant's Echoes enters the chart at #10 and is the runner-up for this week's Chart Sizzler Award.

There's quite the class of freshman CDs this week. Beirut/Realpeople's March Of The Zapotec/Holland EP debuts at #15, and is the third highest new entry. Late Of The Pier's Fantasy Black Channel arrives at #19, N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit Of Apollo checks in at #29 and The Deep Dark Woods' Winter Hours enters the chart at #31.

Only four titles on the top 50 chart have spent more than 10 weeks on it. Mother Mother's O My Heart reaches 19 weeks and falls a place to #44. The Dears' Missiles slips 15 spots to #38 in its 13th week. B.A. Johnston's Stairway To Hamilton falls 10 spots to #26 after being on the chart for 11 weeks. The Bicycles' aforementioned Oh No, It's Love has survived for 10 weeks.

The five specialty charts have seen some notable action this week, as all five have new #1s. Rokia Traore's Tchamantche snatches the top spot from Novalima's Coba Coba on World/Folk, while Satyricon's The Age Of Nero rises six spots to take over #1 on the Metal/Punk chart. P.O.S.' Never Better matches this ascent on the Hip-Hop chart, but Ron Davis' The Bestseller betters that with a nine-place rise on the Jazz/Blues chart. The only way to beat that move is to debut at #1, which Electroluminescent's Measures did on the Electronic chart.

S.M.V.'s Thunder made a curious return to the Jazz/Blues chart. The collaborative album from bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten re-entered at #2 after spending one week at #10 in mid-September.