Pink Mountaintops Reach #1

05/20/09 2:48pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love rises one place to supplant Metric's Fantasies at #1 on the Canadian campus radio top 50 chart.

Don't feel sorry for Metric. They topped the chart for two weeks, which is something neither of their previous two albums accomplished. Live It Out peaked at #2 in October 2005 and Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? hit #3 for a couple of weeks in July 2003.

Appropriately, Joel Plaskett's Three returns to #3 after a week's absence. Japandroids' Post-Nothing holds at #4. Patrick Watson's Wooden Arms rises 10 spots to #5.

Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day experiences a resurgence in popularity and improves by three places to land at #6. King Khan & The Shrines' What Is?! falls four positions to #7, while MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God slips a spot to #8. PJ Harvey and John Parish's A Woman A Man Walked By moves up two spots to #10.

Akron/Family's Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free debuts at #9, which earns it the Chart Sizzler Award for being this week's highest new entry. Runner-up Woods' Songs Of Shame debuts at #17, while The Vaselines' Enter The Vaselines enters at #19. Other notable debuts include Doves' Kingdom Of Rust at #21, Silversun Pickups' Swoon at #29 and St. Vincent's Actor at #43.

Mastodon's Crack The Skye seems glued to the top of the Metal/Punk chart, since it's sat there for five weeks. There's some new blood on this top 10 chart, as the final four spots are filled with debuts that are led by Mumakil's Behold The Failure.

Easy Star All-Stars' Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band remains at #1 on the World/Folk chart for a second week. The Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story Of 1970s Funky Lagos compilation is at #8, even though it was originally released in 2001. A follow-up album called Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story Of 1970s Lagos Jump charted for several months last year. I originally thought this recent activity was for the second volume, but the original two-CD set is receiving chart action on CFRU (Guelph), CHRW (UWO) and CFUV (Victoria).

The top three albums on the Electronic chart have held the #1 spot for at least two weeks each since the beginning of April. Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care wrestles the #1 spot away from Shout Out Out Out Out's Reintegration Time, which falls to #3 this week. Another former #1, MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God, is at #2.

The other two top 10 charts feature new #1s. K-OS's Yes! rises a spot and switches places with K'Naan's Troubadour, which falls to #2 on the Hip-Hop chart. Corey Wilkes & Abstract Pulse's Cries From Tha Ghetto debuts in the top spot on the Jazz/Blues chart.