YSP! WSD! Hold Off All Comers For Third Week At #1

11/03/09 3:53pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

The campus charts act quite differently than the weather. Whereas there's always a calm before the storm, the opposite is usually true at the top of the chart, where a storm of activity leads directly to an extended period of calm.

The musical vessel receiving the benefit of calmer chart waters is You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX, which remains at #1 on the campus chart for a third week.

The new challenger for the throne is Do Make Say Think's Other Truths, which flips places with last week's #2, Islands' Vapours, which falls a spot to #3. We Are Wolves' Invisible Violence rises two positions to sit at #4, followed by Two Hours Traffic's Territory following suit with a two-stage jump to #5.

Cuff The Duke's Way Down Here falls one spot to #6, followed by this week's Chart Sizzler award winner. The Flaming Lips' Embryonic makes an impressive debut at #7. Embryonic was aided by six top 10 finishes on a half dozen charts across the nation. CHYZ (Laval) charted at #1 followed by #4 on CKXU (Lethbridge). CHLY (Nanaimo) ranked it at #5, CFRE (Erindale) at #6, CFMU (McMaster) at #7 and CISM (Montreal) at #9.

Rounding off the top 10, Spiral Beach's The Only Really Thing rises three places to #8, The Hidden Cameras' Origin:Orphan drops five spots to #9 and Carolyn Mark And NQ Arbuckle's Let's Just Stay Here moves up nine positions to land at #10.

Little Girls' Concepts, which entered at #12, was the runner-up album for top debut. The self-titled release by The Almighty Defenders debuted at #20, while the latest release from Califone, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, arrived at #24. Dead Man's Bones' self-titled debut entered at #36, Karen O And The Kids' Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack entered at #44 and Times New Viking's Born Again Revisited landed at #48 in its first week on the chart.

It's been quite interesting chart run for Metric's Fantasies. After remaining on the campus chart for 14 consecutive weeks between April 19 to July 19, Fantasies disappeared off the chart, re-appearing for one more week in late August and then fell off again, for good... or so we thought.

Fantasies reappeared during the week of Oct. 11, and has since put together four weeks of charting to bring its total to 19. The only other album with this number of appearances to put in a second lengthy run on the chart is the all-time campus chart leader in time served, Sloan's One Chord To Another. It recorded 26 weeks on the top 50 chart in 1996-97. Click here for a complete list of these long-serving albums.

There are a couple of other notable albums with long service records on the campus chart. Japandroids' Post-Nothing re-appears at #46, logging 17 weeks. Ohbijou's Beacons rises three places to #20 in its 15th week on the chart, while Black Mold's Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz jumps nine positions to #28 after 12 weeks on the chart.

There was a bit of a rare occasion on the specialty charts. The Hip Hop Chart has a new #1 and it's a #1 debut to boot. BK-One with Benzilla's Radio Do Canibal parachutes in to the top spot, fending off Wax Tailor's In The Mood For Life, which rises two places to sit at #2. BK-One is best known as Brother Ali's DJ, and his new album beats Us, the album by his boss, which falls a place to #6 this week.

Three of the other four top 10 charts have new #1s. Harris Eisenstadt's Canada Day tops the Jazz/Blues chart, Chromeo's DJ Kicks is #1 on the Electronic top ten and the latest Sounday compilation called Tumbele! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds From The French Caribbean 1963-1973 hits #1 on the World/Folk chart.

Only Megadeth's Endgame remains at #1 on the Metal/Punk top 10, as it did last week.