The Chart Time Tunnel: Mogwai

Unlike the activities on the current charts, things on the campus top 50 for January 18, 2000 were quite static.

In fact, the top three albums remained in the same spots from the previous week. Beck's Midnite Vultures sat at #1, followed by Danko Jones' My Love Is Bold at #2 and Beastie Boys' Anthology: The Sounds Of Science at #3. SIANsperic's Else rose eight places back up the charts to #4, followed by Handsome Boy Modelling School's So... How's Your Girl? sliding up a position to #5.

Outside of a few big 19 place jumps by Zoobombs' Let It Bomb, at #14 and I Am Spoonbender's Sender/Receiver at #25, most of the upward movements by albums were in the single digits.

Going the opposite direction in a very big way were Ramasutra's The East Infection with a 23 spot drop to #37, and Charlatans UK's Us And Us Only, which took a 33 place tumble to #38.

The highest new entry was JP5's Hot Box arriving at #20, followed by Sally Timms' Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments For Lost Buckaroos at #23.

With their chart entry, EP +2, at #7, the Scottish noise quartet Mogwai were about to experience a change in their charting fortunes.

The band's Mogwai Young Team 1997 debut album entered at #36 rising to #11 during its seven-week stay. The band's follow-up, Come On Die Young, fared better, debuting at #33 rising to #4 for a couple of weeks and lasting 13 weeks on the campus chart in early 1999. Between these two chart appearances, the Kicking A Dead Pig double remix disc appeared for only one week at #50 in mid-1998.

EP + 2 was a North American compilation released by Matador in late 1999 to accompany the band's first club dates on this side of the Atlantic. The EP, which debuted at #30, peaked at #7 on this chart on its way to a 12-week run.

The band's next three albums did better, as 2002's Rock Action debuted at #12, peaking at #2 and hanging around for 13 weeks. Their 2003 Happy Songs For Happy People follow-up debuted at #5 and held the #1 position for a week.

Mr. Beast matched the previous album's stay at 12 weeks in 2006, but only hit #5. The Hawk Is Howling had a very short strange chart life in 2008, debuting at #9, falling to #24 the following week before disappearing off the chart after only two weeks.