Flaming Lips' Embryonic Hits #1

As our neighbours to the south head toward their biggest holiday of the year, American Thanksgiving, one of their prestigious veteran collage radio acts, The Flaming Lips take over the top spot on the Canadian campus radio chart for the week Nov. 22 to 28.

Embryonic, the Lips' latest, rises a spot to grab the #1 spot. It's the second Flaming Lips CD to hold the #1 spot on this top 50 chart. In September 2002, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots held the #1 spot for a week. Embryonic is the Lips' fourth album to reach into the top five albums with At War With The Mystics hitting #2 in May 2006 and The Soft Bulletin maxing out at #4 in the fall of 1999.

The runner-up title this week is We Are Wolves' Invisible Violence which also rose a single place to #2. These first two ascending titles forced last week's #1, You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX down to #3. Tegan And Sara's Sainthood rises a spot to #4, followed by The King Khan & BBQ Show's Invisible Girl, which jumps 14 places to land at #5.

Do Make Say Think's Other Truths drops two positions to #6, while the self-titled XX album jumps three places to #7. Dragonette's Fixin To Thrill experiences a resurgence in popularity, re-entering the top 10 with a 13 place jump to #8. Ox's Burnout remains at #9 again this week, while Islands' Vapours falls four places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to the self-released new album by former Ghost Is Dancing member Alt Altman. Hold It Close, which he put out under the Digits moniker, is the highest debut this week entering the campus chart at #18.

Alex Cuba's self-titled album enters at #22, the second highest new entry. A History Of's Action In The North Atlantic debuts at #26, Bear In Heaven's Beast Rest Forth Mouth arrives at #29 and Devendra Banhart's What Will We Be enters the chart at #30.

Two albums which have sat on the campus chart a long time return this week. Metric's Fantasies re-enters at #41, marking its 20 week on the chart, while Joel Plaskett's Three re-enters again this week (at #44) after an absence of almost two months on the chart marking its 22 weeks.

It's the first time two albums with over 20 weeks of charting have re-entered in the same week. It's also the first time two albums with 20-plus weeks of charting have shared time on the same campus chart since TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain and The Hidden Cameras' Awoo appeared on a campus chart in February 2007.

There weren't many changes on the specialty charts, with four of the five #1s from last week remaining in the top spots again this week. Only Antipop Consortium's Fluorescent Black rises a place to grab #1 on the Hip Hop top 10. Let's look at some of the new entries on these charts, instead.

There were three debuts on the Electronic chart: Junk Culture's West Coast at #2, Vitalic's Flashmob at #4 and Basement Jaxx's Scars at #9.

The self-titled release from Alex Cuba enters the World/Folk chart at #2 and the Panama! 3 compilation at #6 gives Soundway Records three of the top six places on this top 10, as Ghana Special holds the #1 spot and Tumbele! rises one place to sit at #4.

Nile's Those Whom The Gods Detest is the only new entry on the Metal/Punk chart at #9, while the Jazz/Blues top 10 features four new entries led by Tony Foster's In Between Moods at #2.