Metric Hit #1 In Odd Week

Julie Doiron's reign on the Canadian campus radio top 50 chart has come to an end, as Metric's Fantasies rises four places to grab the #1 spot and Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day falls to #2 in its ninth week.

Joel Plaskett's Three remains in an appropriate position for a second week. Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels drops two places to #4, while Swan Lake's Enemy Mine experiences a resurgence of popularity and rises 10 places to #5. The Vancouver-based group's sophomore release hit #4 three weeks ago before spending the next two weeks in the teens.

It's fairly rare for a release to re-enter the charts in the top 10, but Japandroids' Post-Nothing has done just that at #6. The album debuted at #30 two weeks ago, only to disappear below #50. Post-Nothing charted in the top 10 of five campus charts: #1 at CKXU (Lethbridge); #3 at both CJSF (Simon Fraser) and CITR (UBC); #6 at CJSW (Calgary); and #10 at CFRU (Guelph). Only one of the five stations (CKXU at #1) charted the album last week.

MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God drops three places to #7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz! falls two spots to #8 and Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care tumbles three positions to #10. Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love, meanwhile, rockets up the chart 23 places to #9.

King Khan & The Shrines' What Is?! wins the Chart Sizzler Award for the week's highest debut at #21. A trio of new releases which vied for the runner-up position: Black Dice's Repo at #29, The Ghost Is Dancing's Battles On at #32 and Easy Star All-Stars' Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band at #33.

There were few significant changes on four of the five specialty charts, but two important milestones were recorded on the World/Folk top 10. While there was no change at the top, with Bela Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, Africa Sessions holding onto #1, the #2 spot is occupied by an album that hasn't been on the chart since last July: the Nigeria 70 Lagos Jump compilation.

Of greater significance is the presence of Amadou & Miriam's Welcome To Mali, which drops seven spots to #9. This disc is only the third to reach 20 (or more) weeks on a specialty chart. It follows Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, which charted for 21 weeks on the March 11, 2004 Metal/Punk chart, and K-OS' Joyful Rebellion, which capped 20 weeks on the Hip-Hop chart in the week ended Feb. 17, 2005.

Three of the specialty charts have the same #1 as last week: Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care on Electronic; Mastodon's Crack The Skye on Metal/Punk; and K'Naan's Troubadour on Hip-Hop. Blue Note 7's Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records returns to #1 on the Jazz/Blues top 10, an honour it held for two weeks at the beginning of April.