Black Mold Is #1 On The Chart This Week

08/25/09 12:21pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

Just last week, Charty Chart Chat gazed into the crystal ball and foresaw the rise of this week's new #1, Black Mold's Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz, the first side project of a two-time #1 artist to also reach #1. Chad VanGaalen is the brain behind Black Mold, and his last two albums — 2008's 2009 Polaris Music Prize short listed Soft Airplane and the 2007 Polaris Music Prize short listed Skelliconnection occupied #1 on this chart.

Ohbijou's Beacons falls to #2, followed by its #1 predecessor, Rural Alberta Advantage's Hometowns, which drops another place this week to #3. The other former #1 album from this month, Wilco's Wilco (The Album) rises a notch to #4, followed by Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm recovering nicely with a nine spot jump back to #5 after a couple weeks of chart declines.

Lightning Dust's Infinite Light makes the second highest jump into the top 10, moving 19 places to land at #6. The Dead Weather's Horehound falls three places to #7, followed by a trio of upwardly mobile albums. The Most Serene Republic's ...And The Ever Expanding Universe rises 11 places, Fruit Bats' The Ruminant Band makes a gigantic leap of 37 positions to grab the #9 spot and YACHT's See Mystery Lights rises 11 places to sit at #10 this week.

Jay Reatard's Watch Me Fall enters the chart at #21 giving the album the prestigious honour as the Chart Sizzler, which awarded to the highest debut of the week on the campus chart. The runner-up debut of the week is Fox Jaws' At Odds (Or, Exercises In Separation While United In The Fall), which arrives at #23. Half a dozen new entries hold the seven positions between #27 and #33, led by The Junction's Another Link In The Chain.

Four veteran albums reappear on the campus chart after disappearing from the campus chart. After a month's absence, Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day returns (re-entering at #43) for a 21st week, breaking the tie with Doiron's 1997 album, Loneliest In The Morning for most weeks on the campus chart.

Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love reenters at #45 in its 17th week on the chart. Neko Case's Middle Cyclone logs in a 16th week reentering at #34 bested by Metric's Fantasies re-entry at #31 in its 15th week.

The #1 albums on four of the five specialty charts have held that spot before this week. Three of these #1 albums remain from last week: Black Mold's Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz on the Electronic top 10, Huun Huur Tu And Carmen Rizzo's Eternal on the World/Folk chart and Mos Def's The Ecstatic on the Hip Hop chart.

Augury's Fragmentary Evidence reclaims the #1 spot on the Metal/Punk chart from Blackguard's Profugus Mortis, which falls all the way down to #8 this week. The only album new to the #1 position is Matt Wilson Quartet's That's Gonna Leave A Mark, which rises up a spot to grab top spot on the Jazz/Blues chart.