You Say Party! We Say Die! Stay At #1 For Fifth Week

While the top four bands on this week's campus chart continue their collective dominance again, there's enough fluctuation below that mark to make things interesting for you chart watchers out there for the week of Nov. 15 to 21, 2009.

You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX continues to lead the pack holding onto the #1 position for a fifth week.

The Vancouver dance-punk collective's hold on the top spot remains but the competition is getting closer this week. Last week, XXXX had a 400 point lead on second place. This week a new #2, The Flaming Lips' Embryonic, rises two spots and only lags behind by less than one hundred points. We Are Wolves' Invisible Violence drops a spot to #3 pushing Do Make Say Think's Other Truths down a spot to #4.

Tegan And Sara, the runner-up for the last week's Chart Sizzler award, had a bit of comeuppance on last week's highest debut. The twins' Sainthood rises 12 places to land at #5, besting Ox's Burnout, which rose only four places to grab #9 this week. Islands' Vapours falls a spot to #6.

The Raveonettes' In And Out Of Control rebounds with a four place bump to capture #7, forcing Said The Whale's Islands Disappear down a position to #8. After Burnout, the self-titled XX album drops two places to sit at #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award for the highest debut of the week goes to The King Khan & BBQ Show's Invisible Girl, which enters the campus chart at #19. It's actually the second time the mighty King Khan has won this prestigious award this year.

During the week of May 3 to 9, King Khan And The Shrines' What Is!? debuted at #21. While other bands have had multiple Chart Sizzler awards, this is the first time an artist has repeated in the same year. Not only did King Khan win, but the album won easily, as the runner-up debut this week was 12 places lower on the campus chart.

There's a quintet of new entries battling for the second-highest debut. Russian Circles' Geneva arrives at #32, followed by the self-titled release by For Those About To Love at #33, Harry Manx's Bread And Buddha at #34, Matthew Good's Vancouver at #35 and Amos The Transparent's My, What Big Teeth You Have... pulling up the rear at #36.

With a recent second-life, Think About Life's Family (at #43) has remained on the campus chart for 13 weeks the most among a relatively weak lot. Family actually disappeared from this chart for over three months before returning last week. The Friends Of Bellwoods Vol. 2 compilation has remained around for 12 weeks, rising two spots to #30, while Lightning Dust's Infinite Light drops two spots to #39 in its 12th week on the campus chart.

Some stability returns to the recently volatile specialty charts this week. Three of last week's #1 albums remain there again this week: Converge's Axe To Fall on the Metal/Punk chart, Boys Noize's Power on the Electronic top 10 and the Ghana Special compilation on the World/Folk chart.

Henry Threadgill Zooid's This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 jumps seven position to grab the #1 position on the Jazz/Blues chart, while Del The Funky Homosapien And Tame One's Parallel Uni-Verses rises three spots to take over the #1 position on the Hip Hop chart.