Islands Jumps The Max To Land At #1

10/14/09 1:54pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

The campus radio charts experienced a first last week: a non-Canadian album debuting at #1.

This week, the chart witnessed another rarity, as an album moved 49 places on the chart. In order for this to occur, the #50 album needs to reach #1 and Islands' Vapours achieved this feat this week.

This tremendous moved pushed last week's #1 debut, Vivian Girls' Everything Goes Wrong, to #2. The problem with debuting at #1 is it's eventually all downhill from there. You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX advanced a dozen positions to land at #3. The Hidden Cameras' Origin: Orphan rebounded this week, moving up three places to #4, while Two Hours Traffic's Territory also had a resurgence, rising five spots to #5.

The Chart Sizzler award this week goes to the #6 entry, The Raveonettes' In And Out Of Control, which arrives as the highest debut of the week.

Black Mold's Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz, a former #1 album, experienced a bit of a chart miracle. After a month of steady chart descent Chad VanGaalen's electronic side project rose 28 places to land at #7. That follows a 32 place drop for the album last week. Spiral Beach's The Only Really Thing jumps up five spots to #8 followed by Kill The Lights' Fog Area dropping three positions to #9 and Why?'s Eskimo Snow handling a eight place tumble to #10.

There was a quartet of new entries down in the 20s this week battling for the runner-up position to The Raveonettes' Chart Sizzling new album. Le Loup's Family debuts at #23, followed by Monsters Of Folk's self-titled debut at #24, Pens' Hey Friend! What Are You Doing? at #25 and Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's Break up at #26.

Other notable new entries include Cousins' Out On Town at #30, No Age's Losing Feeling EP at #31 and Oromocto Diamond's Le Choc Du Futur at #38.

After dropping off the campus chart for all of the month of September, Metric's Fantasies returns at #33. The last time this album charted was six weeks ago, during the week of Aug. 23. The album's 16 weeks makes it the longest surviving album on the chart this week.

Sonic Youth's The Eternal returns this week, too, after an week's absence, and reaches 13 weeks on the chart. In fact, The Eternal has been in a two-week pattern of appearing and disappearing from the campus charts every other week for the past month.

The specialty charts feature three new #1s at the top of their respective top tens. Baaba Maal's Television rises five spots to take over the #1 position on the World/Folk chart. Antipop Consortium's Fluorescent Black matches Maal's moves on the Hip Hop chart with a identical five place jump to #1. Dying Fetus' Descend Into Depravity rises from the runner-up position to grab top spot on the Metal/Punk chart.

Unlike its movements on the campus charts, Black Mold's Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz has remained steady over the past two months on the Electric chart. Snow Blindness has remained at #1 now for eight consecutive weeks.

Finally, Tayler Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings' Madeleine Dreams returns as the #1 album on the Jazz chart for a second week.