Grizzly Bear Roars To #1

06/16/09 2:13pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

Well, it's that time of the year again in the sacred world of Canadian Campus Radio charts.

This week, the National Campus And Community Radio Association (NCRA) have their annual convention where members of NCRA board meet with a number of music directors from member stations. They drink, debate and vote on a variety of issues that the NCRA holds dear within their little world. With the rise of MP3s, iPods et al, they may want to discuss the future of campus radio in general, but that might not be self-serving enough.

This year, the conference is being held in Montreal and the biggest impact it has on this department is the decrease of chart contributions from many music directors. Here are the results of these contributing charts.

After a quick rise through the charts, Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear have topped the charts this week. Their new album is called Veckatimest — whatever that means — [Editor's note: It's apparently an island in Massachusetts], and it rises three positions to #1 this week.

Think About Life's Family also rises three places to land at #2. Clues' self-titled album rebounds this week and rises four spots to #3. Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love falls out of first place and tumbles down three positions to drop to #4.

Dog Day's Concentration rises four spots to #5 and is followed by Metric's Fantasies, which falls four positions to #6. Joel Plaskett's Three slips a place to #7, while Iron And Wine's Around The Well rises six positions to land at #8.

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Eating Us makes a big rise of 24 spots to come in at #9, and Apostle Of Hustle's Eats Darkness sits at #10 with a seven place drop.

While there have been a few instances of albums previously released in the '90s getting repackaged for the new internet age, few have ever charted here. Slanted And Enchanted, the first of the Pavement album reissue, did hit the charts in the high 30s in late 2002, but this week the highest debut is from an album originally released in June 1994, which was 18 months before the top 50 chart became a weekly affair.

The Chart Sizzler this week is the deluxe edition of Beck's One Foot In The Grave, which arrives at #25. The Record Of The Week Club compilation debuts at #34 and is followed by The Novaks' Things Fall Apart at #35, Starfucker's Jupiter at #37 and Passion Pit's Manners at #39.

We have two repeating #1s on the five specialty charts, two albums regain the #1 position they held in the past and one chart features a brand new #1 album.

Easy Star All-Stars' Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band remains at #1 on the World/Folk chart. This Beatles' dub album has sat at #1 on this specialty chart for five of the previous six weeks.

Mastodon's Crack The Skye remains at #1 on the Metal/Punk chart, a position this has held for eight of the past nine weeks. Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care returns to the #1 position on the Electronic chart after a two week absense.

K-OS' Yes! recaptures the top spot on the Hip Hop chart after losing #1 to D-Sisive's Let The Children Die and K'Naan's Troubadour for a week each. Gypsophilia's Sa-Ba-Da-Ow! ascends a spot to grab #1 in its second week on the Jazz/Blues top ten.