Julie Doiron Has The #1 Album Of 2009 On Canadian Campus Radio

Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day was the #1 charting album of the year on Canadian campus radio for 2009.

Doiron's victory was determined by aggregating CHARTattack's weekly charts from January to December 2009.

You can see the full Top 100, here.

We've been publishing a Canadian campus Top 100 albums of the year since the mid-'90s, which would appear in the print edition of Chart magazine.

Due to the magazine's two month lead-time, the Top 100 chart that appeared in each December issue of Chart traditionally only reflected campus radio airplay for the first 10 months of the year. Since our switch to publishing all-online, however, for the first time our Top 100 reflects all of the nation's radio airplay up until last week of the year. So in actuality, this is our first exactly true year-end Top 100.

The first thing of note with the Top 100 2009 albums is the number of albums that managed to chart for more than 20 weeks. Never before have three albums with 20 or more weeks on the campus chart appeared on the same Top 100. This year Joel Plaskett's Three charted for 22 weeks, Doiron's album for 21 and Metric's Fantasies for 20.

Both Doiron and Plaskett, whose album ended up #2, were helped by the Maritime/east coast loyalty factor as many of the campus stations from both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia continued to play these albums well into autumn and long after these albums fell off the chart in the rest of the country.

Metric's Fantasies, which ended up #4, also received strong airplay right up to the last week of '09, even though it fell short of charting on our most recent weekly Top 50. Congrats to all three of these 20+ week hall-of-fame discs.

Amidst those long-charting records was Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love at #3. It charted for 17 weeks. The highest non-Canadian disc was Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, which was the #5 album of the year. It just beat out Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, which was at #6.

The album that dominated the last half of the year was You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX, which ended up #7, but did it in only 12 weeks of charting. If this album had been released six weeks earlier, we may have had a different outcome at #1. Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels was at #8 followed by the Clues' eponymous release at #9 and Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer at #10.

Some of the traditionally high-scoring veteran bands seemed to have off years. Both Sonic Youth's The Eternal at #16 and Wilco's Wilco (The Album) at #24 failed to reach the heights on the year-end list as their previous albums. Islands' Vapours also did poorly, coming in at #28.

Tegan And Sara's Sainthood, which is currently at #1 on the weekly chart ranks at #42 overall, but has only spent seven weeks on the weekly charts. This album would have been much higher if it had been released earlier in the year.

In terms of record labels, the Arts & Crafts label has the most titles on the Top 100. Of the label's six title on the list the highest is surprisingly Bell Orchestre's As Seen Through Windows at #30. Jagjaguwar has five titles, all of which are in the top half of the chart, including two in the top 10. Last Gang had four albums on the chart, while five other labels had three titles each: Anti-, Constellation, Matador, Sub Pop and Vice.

To view the full Top 100, click here.