Black Mold At #1 Again

09/15/09 1:26pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

For the first time in over a year, the top five albums on the campus charts remained the same as the previous week, though switching some places with each other.

Chad VanGaalen's Black Mold electronic side project continues to have legs as its debut album, Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz holds on to the #1 spot for a third week. The Friends Of Bellwoods Vol. II charity compilation rises two places to sit at #2, followed by Lightning Dust's Infinite Light holding down #3 for a second week. The Rural Alberta Advantage's Hometowns, a former #1 album, rises a spot to #4, with Ohbijou's Beacons dropping three places to #5.

The Hidden Cameras' Origin:Orphan moves up five spots to #6 in its second week on the chart. Jay Reatard's Watch Me Fall moves two places north to #7, followed by Young Galaxy's Invisible Republic, which jumps seven spots to sit at #8. HEALTH's Get Color, another album in its second week on the chart, jumps four notches to hold down the #9 position. All this upward action forces The Dead Weather's Horehound down three places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler award goes to the veteran indie-pop trio from New Zealand, The Clean. Mister Pop, their new release, debuts at #14 easily beating out the runner-up new entry, Arctic Monkeys' Humbug, which enters at #23.

A quintet of new entries follow, starting with Puberty's First Slime entering at #25. That's followed by The Paper Cranes' Chivalry's Dead at #26, Blitzen Trapper's Black River Killer EP at #27, The Balconies' self-titled album at #28 and The Valleys' Sometimes Water Kills People at #29.

The current album with the most number of weeks on the chart is Clues' eponymous release in its 16th week. It drops five spots to #32. Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest rises six places to #40 in its 14th week on the campus chart. Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix re-enters the chart at #49 in its 13th week.

Black Mold's reign is one week longer on the Electronic top 10. Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz has held the #1 position on this specialty chart for four consecutive weeks, the longest current reigning #1. Augury's Fragmentary Evidence has held the #1 spot on the Metal/Punk chart for three weeks.

The other three specialty charts have new albums at #1 this week. Tinariwen's Imidiwan: Companions rises three positions to grab the #1 spot on the World/Folk top 10. Solillaquists Of Sound's No More Heroes moves up five spots to land at #1 on the Hip Hop chart and the third edition of Medeski, Martin & Wood's Radiolarians Series parachutes into the Jazz/Blues chart's #1 spot.