The Chart Time Tunnel: Air

Ten years ago this week on the campus charts, things were still sorting themselves out as programmers from coast to coast realized the world didn't end when the clocks turned over to 2000.

The campus chart for the week of Jan. 6 to 13, 2000 reflects either a vast amount of fear of the future or just some radio laziness as the majority of the charting albums made insignificant moves from the week before.

Beck's Midnite Vultures remained the #1 album, followed by Danko Jones' My Love Is Bold at #2. Beastie Boys' Anthology: The Sounds Of Science rose two places to leapfrog over the Rheostatics' The Story Of Harmelodia, which remained at #4 again, while Charlatans UK's Us And Us Only made a relatively impressive rise, jumping six places to #5.

There were some other monumental movements on the chart. Choclair's Ice Cold rose 13 places to #7, Furnanceface's And The Days Are Short Again... rose 15 spots to #8. Luna's The Days Of Our Nights jumped 16 spots to #13 and Bob Marley's Chant Down Babylon jumped 30 positions to land at #18.

The highest debut this week was by an obscure Vancouver electronic artist. French Paddleboat's Conversion In Metric, which entered at #25, was the Chart Sizzler for the week, beating out Le Tigre's self-titled debut at #31, Wooden Stars' The Moon at #33 and Korn's Issues at #41.

One of the longest serving albums on the chart was Air's Premiers Symptomes, which in its 11th (and final) week fell 14 places landing at #26. The French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel first appeared on the campus charts two years earlier with their Moon Safari debut, which entered at #43 in February 1997, hitting #1 for a week in March and surviving on the chart for 12 weeks.

The duo's follow-up was the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. It debuted in March 2000, hitting #3 logging nine weeks on the campus chart. 10,000 Hz Legend arrived in June 2001, entering at #10 and rising to #2 three weeks later before departing after 12 weeks on the chart. In 2004, Talkie Walkie debuted at #18. It also peaked at #2 and lasted 13 weeks on the chart.

Outside of the recently released Love 2, which debuted (and then disappeared after only one week) a month ago at #44, the last Air album to chart was 2007's, Pocket Symphony. It entered the chart at #21 and only rose to #15 before disappearing after only six weeks.