Doiron Holds On To #1

This week's chart could be entitled Dr. Sameways (Or How I Went to Florida For A Week And Every Radio Station Went On Autopilot) for those keeping track of this sort of stuff.

This chart report covers the week of charts from March 29 to April 4. I was relaxing in 25-degree Celsius weather in Tampa, Fla., and it seems that most programmers followed me there.

The first four positions remain as they were the previous week. Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day remains at #1, followed by Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, Handsome Furs' Face Control and A.C. Newman's Get Guilty. All of these titles saw their overall point totals drop, with Doiron at 1,140 and Case at 973.

The first change to the chart starts with the seven-place jump by Bell Orchestre's As Seen Through Windows to #5. Malajube's Labyrinthes remains at #6, Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels hops up four spots to #7 and is followed by the Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand, which jumps five spots to #8. Propagandhi's Supporting Caste is cemented at #9 while DD/MM/YYYY's Black Square slides two positions to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award wasn't much of an honour this week, as Romi Mayes' Achin In Yer Bones debuted at #28, marking one of the lowest top new entries in many years.

There was little competition among the other new entries, as Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care was the runner-up at #33 and Dan Deacon's Bromst came in at #35. The biggest upward mover on the chart was the 17-spot rise to #31 of Obits' I Blame You. The biggest drop was the 21-position tumble to #41 by Faunts' Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

Things are equally static on the specialty charts, where two top 10s feature the same #1s as the week before. Buried Inside's Spoils Of Failure remains at the top of the Metal/Punk chart and K'Naan's Troubadour holds on to first place on the Hip-Hop top 10.

Indiogone Trio & Strings' Cycles returns to the #1 position on the Jazz/Blues chart after a week's absence with a four-position jump. The remix album of Delhi 2 Dublin's self-titled debut moves up five places to #1 on the World/Folk chart. The original version of Delhi 2 Dublin spent nine weeks on this chart last spring, peaking at #3. Another remix album tops the Electronic chart, as The Banjo Consortium's A Remixed One rises a single place to #1.