Grizzly Bear At #1 For Third Week

06/30/09 1:11pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

As the top 50 chart moves into the summer season this week, Grizzly Bear continues to rule the Chart, though their hold on #1 is becoming precarious.

Last week Veckatimest received a total of 1,219 points, while the second place entry, Clues' eponymous release, had 833 points. Both albums remain in the same positions this week, but Grizzly Bear has only 939 points while Clues have 802. So the gap is shrinking and Veckatimest has slipped on a number of significant charts this week. That means it could be ripe for conquest by Sonic Youth's The Eternal, which rose 12 spots to claim the #3 position.

Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love slips a notch to #4, while Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer rises a position to #5.

The highly touted new release by Dirty Projectors rises five spots to #6. Bitte Orca has been proclaimed as the best album of the 2009. Let's see if it can conquer the Canadian charts in the next couple of weeks.

Think About Life's Family falls three places to #7, followed by Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm, which rockets places to sit at #8 this week. Metric's Fantasies remains at #9 while Eels' Hombre Lobo jumps four spots to #10.

With two '80s bands (Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.) sitting in the top ten, let's honour a '90s band (in origin and style) as the highest debut of the week. Rancid's Let The Dominos Fall arrives at #22 and is the Chart Sizzler this week.

Let The Dominos Fall is the band's first release since 2003's Indestructible. That album debuted at #40 and lasted three weeks on the chart in 2003. Rancid's self-titled album from 2000 hit the charts at #12 during the month of August.

Rancid had little competition for the Chart Sizzler this week. There were three also-rans down in the mid 30s: So Many Dynamos' The Loud Wars at #33, Tortoise's Beacons Of Ancestorship at #34 and Lily Fawn's Lullaby Album at #35.

The Hip Hop top 10 specialty chart has witnessed six weeks of changes at #1. Not since mid May with K-OS' Yes! has an artist remained at #1 for two consecutive charts. This continues as D-Sisive's Let The Children Die returns to #1 this week after a four week absence.

The Electronic top 10 has a new #1, as Tiga's Ciao! jumps two places to drop last week's #1, MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God, to #2. Fist Of God has spent the past 12 weeks in the top three on this specialty chart, and has sat at #1 on three different occasions.

The other three charts feature the same #1s as last week. Gypsophilia's Sa-Ba-Da-Ow! has sat at #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart for three weeks. Mr. Something Something's Shine Your Face repeats at #1 on the World/Folk chart for a second week. Mastodon's Crack The Skye has held down the #1 place on the Metal/Punk chart for 10 of the past 11 weeks, and only Heaven & Hell's The Devil You Know usurped the top spot during the week of May 31 to June 6.