The Chart Time Tunnel: Beck

It's amazing for those who can remember the hype leading up to the new millennium, that we're now into the second decade of the 21st century.

Ten years ago, the battle for the #1 position was between two acts who would both perform on the same bill at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens that same month.

A week earlier, Danko Jones' My Love Is Bold had held the #1 position on the campus charts with Beck's Midnite Vultures the runner-up. The next week (Dec. 30, 1999 to Jan. 6, 2000), though, their positions were reversed as Beck rose to usurp Danko's place at the top of the chart.

As you would suspect, Beck has experienced a great deal of campus chart success. Each of his last seven studio albums have charted in the top five, with three eventually holding the #1 place.

While Gold and One Foot In The Grave both precede CHARTattack's weekly charts, Beck's first chart appearance was in July 1996 when Odelay debuted at #8, stalling at #2 a month later, but hanging around for 18 weeks. That was the longest stay for a Beck album on the chart. His follow-up, Mutations, also reached #2 after debuting at #28 in November 1998 and lasting 15 week on the campus chart.

Midnite Vultures originally appeared Dec. 2, 1999 and hung on for 13 weeks. Beck scored back-to-back #1 albums with Sea Change, which entered the charts at #39 in September 2002, reaching #1 for a couple of weeks a month later. Sea Change lasted 17 weeks on the campus chart.

Guero, which came out in 2005, entered at #6 in April of that year and was the first Chart Sizzler Award for the scientologist. Guero only reached #4 and dropped off the chart after 12 weeks.

Beck's last #1 album, 2006's The Information, actually lasted at #1 for five weeks at the end of that year, debuting at #46 and racking up 12 weeks service on the chart.

Beck's most recent album, 2008's Modern Guilt, fared the worst on the chart. It started with a bang, garnering the Chart Sizzler Award in August of that year, entering the chart at #5, but it only reached #3 and was gone after nine weeks on the campus chart.

DJ Spooky's Subliminal Minded EP which debuted at #19, was the highest new entry 10 years ago. Low's Christmas debuted at #25, followed by Goldfinger's Darrin's Coconut Ass at #28. Emergency & I, the brilliant album from The Dismemberment Plan, entered at #31 followed by Fiona Apple's When The Pawn... at #32.