Metric's Fantasies Retakes #1

It's been almost six months since the last time the Canadian top 50 campus radio chart has had two different albums fighting it out for the top position.

Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane and Mother Mother's O My Heart knocked each other out of the top spot over several weeks in early November. Since then (and until two weeks ago), only four other albums have held down #1: The Bicycles' Oh No, It's Love, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day and Metric's Fantasies.

This last album again returns to the top spot after a week's absence. Fantasies' upward move forces last week's #1, Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love, down to #2. Joel Plaskett's Three ironically remains at #3, while Patrick Watson's Wooden Arms rises a single place to #4.

Clues' self-titled release rockets up 23 spots to #5. Immaculate Machine's High On Jackson Hill experiences a five-place jump to #6. The aforementioned Julie Doiron album slips a place to #7, followed by Ghost Is Dancing's Battles On, which rises four positions to #8. Japandroids' Post-Nothing drops five places to #9 and King Khan & The Shrines' What Is?! slips three places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to the sophomore album from Montreal's Think About Life. Their Family enters at #18 and beats out Pony Up's Stay Gold at #22, Pale Air Singers' eponymous release at #26 and Peaches' I Feel Cream at #28. Other notable new entries include: the first solo effort from former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle, Yours Truly, The Commuter, which arrives at #32; The Horrors' Primary Colours at #45; and John Vanderslice's Romanian Names at #49.

All five specialty charts feature the same #1s as last week. To quickly find out what they were, click here for last week's chart report.

Abstract Rude's Rejuvenation debuts at #4 on the Hip-Hop chart and Normand Guilbeault Ensemble's Homage A Mingus: Live At Upstairs 2008 also enters at #4 on the Jazz/Blues top 10. Isis' Wavering Radiant arrives at #5 on the Metal/Punk chart. Hennie Bekker's African Tapestries Collection hits the World/Folk top 10 at #6, and Moodini's Let's Get Outta Here debuts at #8 on the Electronic chart.