Doiron At #1 For Sixth Week

Metric's Fantasies

The campus top 50 is a tale of two charts this week, with the top part showing only modest movement and the bottom experiencing a total overhaul with 14 new entries.

Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day remains at #1 for a sixth week. There's a new #2 for the first time in four weeks, as Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels swaps places with last week's runner-up, Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, which falls to #3.

Joel Plaskett's Three moves up a spot to #4 and is followed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz!, which jumps 11 places to #5. Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care rises three positions to #6, while MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God also climbs three spots to #7. Bell Orchestre's As Seen Through Windows experiences a resurgence in support and re-enters the top 10 with a four-place jump to #8. Shout Out Out Out Out's Reintegration Time falls two places to #9 and Propagandhi's Supporting Caste moves up a position to #10.

Metric's Fantasies garners this week's Chart Sizzler Award. Emily Haines and company's latest album enters the chart at #21, which is a relatively soft debut considering the chart history of this campus radio fave.

Metric edged out Crystal Antlers' Tentacles, which enters at #22. Jeremy Jay's Slow Dance arrives at #26, Immaculate Machine's High On Jackson Hill debuts at #28 and Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers compilation checks in at #29.

A couple of titles re-entered the specialty charts after more than a month's absence. Electroluminescent's Measures returns to the Electronic chart after five weeks. Last time we saw Measures, it was at #3 during the week of March 1.

Kiran Ahluwalia's Wanderlust journey is even more bizarre. It entered the World/Folk chart at #8 two weeks ago, dropped off last week, and now returns at #10. Wanderlust originally charted for 11 weeks during the summer of 2007.

It's a bit of an anomaly for an album to disappear from a chart for 20 months and then return. Did some stations just get a copy of the CD and thought it was a new release? Only the chart gods know for sure.

Except for K'Naan's Troubadour on the Hip-Hop chart, the other four specialty top 10s feature a different #1 from last week.

Mastodon's Crack The Skye moves up a place to #1 on the Metal/Punk chart and MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God rises a spot to #1 on Electronic. Bela Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart, Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions rises three places to grab the top spot on the World/Folk chart and Forgas Band Phenomena's Axis Of Madness debuts at #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10.

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