Julie Doiron Makes It Five Weeks at #1

04/14/09 2:37pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

This week's Canadian campus radio top 50 chart offers two extremes.

While there was almost a record number of contributors last week, many of those stations didn't file new charts, so many titles remained in relatively the same position. Though there were few new entries, there were some big movers within the top 50.

Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day remains at #1 for a fifth week and is followed by Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, which is stuck at #2 for a fourth week.

Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels moves up a place to #3, while Swan Lake's Enemy Mine rises two spots to #4. Joel Plaskett's Three rockets 19 places from the back of the pack to land at #5. Handsome Furs' Face Control falls three positions to #6 after having failed to infiltrate Doiron and Case's glass ceiling.

Shout Out Out Out Out's Reintergration Time rises six spots to #7 and slides past The Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand, which moves up a place to #8. Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care improves by five spots to #9, while MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God leaps 15 places to #10.

Thunderheist's self-titled release arrives at #35 to make it the highest new entry and Chart Sizzler Award winner. There are only four other debuts: Hey Ocean!'s It's Easier To Be Somebody Else at #42; Coathangers' Scramble at #44; Royksopp's Junior at #48; and The Decemberists' The Hazards Of Love at #49.

Mother Mother's O My Heart remains at #41 in its 21st week. Just 10 albums have lasted longer. The most recent album to reach 21-week milestone was Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane from Aug. 30, 2008 to Feb. 22, 2009. The Bicycles' Oh No, It's Love also edges close to immortality despite falling 14 places to #34 in its 18th week.

Last week I made reference to an album with an outside chance of becoming the longest serving album on a specialty chart. Such records generally nosedive and disappear when the spotlight's placed on them, but Amadou & Miriam's Welcome To Mali did the opposite and recaptured the #1 spot on the World/Folk chart in its 17th week. It was #1 for seven weeks in December and January.

The other four specialty charts feature the same #1s as last week: Buried Inside's Spoils Of Failure on Metal/Punk; Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records on Jazz/Blues; Shout Out Out Out Out's Reintegration Time on Electronic; and K'Naan's Troubadour on Hip-Hop.