Metric Remains At #1 On Chart

As the weather gradually heats up, things on this week's top 50 Canadian campus radio chart seem to have cooled.

It's no longer normal for a hot new entry to blast on to the chart in the top 10 by dominating the charts of many key campus stations. The moderate success of new entries is partly due to the diversity of musical and regional interests on many contributing charts.

Alberta bands seem to place high on their local stations, as eponymous releases by The Secretaries and Lyra Brown take up two of the top five spots on CJSR (Alberta).

The general style and location of a station also influences its playlist. CITR (UBC) plays a lot more west coast bands and are generally a little more 'garagier' in content compared to CKUT (McGill), which is more avant-garde and has Yoshi Wada's Earth Horns With Electronic Drone as its top pick this week. It takes a certain type of release to catch the interest of a majority of program directors to get a new entry into the top five these days.

Metric's Fantasies holds on to the #1 spot on the top 50 for a second week. Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love jumps seven places to #2, while King Khan & The Shrines' What Is?! rockets up 18 places to #3.

Japandroids' Post-Nothing rises two places to #4 and is followed by Joel Plaskett's Three, which drops two spots to #5. Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels slips out of the top five for the first time in five weeks and slips to #6. MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God remains at #7 and Immaculate Machine's High On Jackson Hill jumps six positions to #8. Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, a former #1 album, slides seven places to sit at #9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz! drops two positions to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to Years' self-titled release. Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene member Ohad Benchetrit's first album on Arts & Crafts debuts at #19 ahead of Dog Day's Concentration at #26, Camera Obscura's My Maudlin Career at #31 and Apostle Of Hustle's Eats Darkness at #32.

The specialty charts have experienced everything from almost complete turnover of a top 10 (Jazz/Blues) to no new entries (World/Folk). Mastodon's Crack The Skye remains at #1 on the Metal/Punk chart, as does K'Naan's Troubadour on Hip-Hop for the eighth straight week.

Shout Out Out Out Out's Reintegration Time recaptures #1 on the Electronic top 10, a position it held for two weeks in early April. Easy Star All-Stars' Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band rises three positions to grab the top spot on the World/Folk chart.

Only three albums survive the purge on the Jazz/Blues chart, including the new collaboration between Leora Cashe And The Ross Taggart Trio, Another Side Now: The Songs Of Joni Mitchell, which moves to #1.