Owen Pallett's Heartland Repeats At #1

Unlike Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, reliving the same day over and over again, there's quite unusual turnover on the campus charts this week, a trend that continues from last week. Excluding the top spot — which remains the same — things below that spot are downright unstable.

Despite shedding his "gamer" pseudonym, Owen Pallett continues to hold the #1 spot with his new album, Heartland.

Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM rises two places to sit at #2, followed by Vampire Weekend's Contra, which rises seven places to occupy #3. Woodpigeon's Die Stadt Muzikanten jumps nine spots to take over #4, pushing You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX down two spots to #5. Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP rises three positions to stay ahead of two debuts that follow.

It was a close challenge this week for the Chart Sizzler Award, with Basia Bulat's Heart Of My Own at #7 squeaking out a win over Spoon's Transference at #8. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's Kollaps Tradixionales falls four positions after debuting at #5 last week. Beach House's Teen Dream crawls up a spot to grab #10.

There are a dozen other new entries this week, with the third-highest debut belonging to Fucked Up's Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009, entering at #13. Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here debuts at #15, followed by Ruth Minnikin & Her Bandwagon's Depend On This at #16.

Yukon Blonde are one of the bands performing at CHARTattack's Canadian Music Week 2010 showcases at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern. Their self-titled release arrives at #23 this week. Other new releases include Nouvelle Vague's 3 at #28, Martha And The Muffins' Delicate at #33 and Devil's Hotrod's Dirty Rocks For Broken Hearts arriving at #37.

There was quite a tumble for three of the last week's elite releases. Woodhands' Remorsescapade fell 15 spots to #17, Tom Waits' Glitter And Doom Live dropped 31 places to #38 and the Daptone Gold compilation slid 35 positions to #43.

The specialty charts were relatively quiet in comparison to the big chart. Four of the five #1s remained in place from last week, with the only change occurring on the World/Folk chart where the Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura rose a spot to #1.

The Jazz/Blues chart features four debuts, led by Steve Kaldestad Quintet's Blow Up! at #3. That was followed by Gordon Grdina's East Van Strings' The Breathing Of Statues at #4.

There were four new entries on the Electronic chart, with Pantha Du Prince's Black Noise debuting at #4. The Hip Hop top 10 featured three new additions led by the Cool Like The Pulse Of A Corpse compilation at #6, while Fucked Up's Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 debuted at #5 on the Metal/Punk charts, too.