The Chart Time Tunnel… Tricky Woo

CHARTattack has been compiling weekly chart since early 1996, about six months after we hit the internet. Every Wednesday afternoon yours truly will have glimpse back at the charts 10 years ago. So here’s what happened for the week of Aug. 12  to 19, 1999.

Tricky Woo's Sometimes I Cry was riding high for the majority of this summer.

Sometimes I Cry is the only album in the history of the weekly charts to debut at #1 when a week wasn't skipped due to my absence. It entered the chart during the week of June 24 to July 1, 1999 and was still hovering around #1 six weeks later.

Moby's Play jumped five places to land at #2 followed by Wooden Stars' The Moon rising two places to #3. Around the same time, Wooden Stars would collaborate with Julie Doiron on Julie Doiron And The Wooden Stars. It garnered the collective a Juno Award for best alternative album the next year.

The Flaming Lips' comeback album, The Soft Bulletin, rose modestly by two spots to #4 and Luscious Jackson's Electric Honey fell a place to #5. This would be the last studio album by this female foursome and foreshadowed the demise of the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label.

The Dominic Radio compilation, released by the then Vancouver-based Transiberian Records, was the week's highest debut at #21. The late Ali Farka Toure's Niafunke debuted at #30 as the second highest new entry.