Three Weeks At #1 For Owen Pallett's Heartland

Much like the sentiment in the song "Auld Lang Syne," the new year has definitely characterized by the expression "out with the old and in with the new."

For the first week in a very long time, the top 10 consists only of albums that have entered the campus chart in the last five weeks, not coincidentally the start of 2010.

Owen Pallett's Heartland continues to hold the #1 position for a third week, with Basia Bulat's Heart Of My Own rising five positions to challenge Pallett for top spot at #2.

Beach House's Teen Dream moves up seven places to sit at #3, pushing Vampire Weekend's Contra down a spot to #4. Spoon's Transference rises three positions to #5.

After battling for the upper echelon of the chart, Woodhands's Remorsescapade fell out of the top 10 last week. It's rebounded, jumping up 11 spots to claim the #6 position, followed by Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM, which falls five places. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's Kollaps Tradixionales slides up a spot to #8, while Woodpigeon's Die Stadt Muzikanten falls five positions to #9 followed by Kate Maki's Two Song Wedding rocketing up 14 places to sit at #10.

The Magnetic Fields' Realism pulls off a bit of a rarity this week, entering the chart for the first time at #13. Realism garnered the Chart Sizzler Award this week by debuting on nine individual campus charts, including a #1 position on CJLO (Concordia). It was the first week the album appeared on any chart, marking Realism as a true debut, as there are regular instances of isolated stations regularly playing — and charting — albums before their official release dates when most stations start charting albums.

The next highest new entry, Retribution Gospel's 2 arrives at #24, and the other runner-up new entries are a quartet of debuts following between #27 and #30: Los Campesinos!' Romance Is Boring, Fanshaw's Dark Eyes, OK Go's Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky and Sleepless Nights' The Phone Booth Outside The Video Store.

One of the more interesting arrivals this week comes at #38. It's Animal Collective's Campfire Songs, an album originally released in 2003 with the band's original line-up. The band's labels (Paw Tracks and Domino) have reissued the record to capitalize on the band's current popularity. The disc never charted during its initial release, with the first Animal Collective appearance occurring in late 2005 with the follow-up, Feels.

There were almost wholesale changes at the top of the five specialty charts this week. Four of the five top 10 charts have new #1s. The only disc to survive the "beheading" was the Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura compilation on the World/Folk top 10.

Converge's Axe To Fall is no stranger to the top spot on the Metal/Punk chart, now sitting in the #1 position for a third time. It marks the eighth week the album has sat at #1 over the past three months.

Until this week, Woodhands' Remorsescapade has spent the previous three weeks at #2 behind fellow Paper Bag artist CFCF's Continent on the Electronic top 10. This week, Woonhands finally reaches the top of the chart, while CFCF tumbles to #4 behind two debuts: Hot Chip's One Life Stand at #2 and Blockhead's The Music Scene at #3.

BlakRoc's (The Black Keys' hip-hop project) independently-released self-titled debut rises two positions to grab the #1 place on the Hip Hop top 10. The chart also features the debut of the genre-splicing disc by Blockhead, as The Music Scene arrives at #9.

The Jazz/Blues top 10 features last week's runner-up album rising a spot to #1, with Chicago Underground Duo's Boca Negra replacing Oliver Jones & Hank Jones' Pleased To Meet You, which slides down to #6 this week. Ranee Lee's Lives Upstairs debuts at #3, followed by Rob Clutton's Suchness Monster at #4.