Owen Pallett Continues To Own #1 Spot

What's happening to the campus charts lately?

For the three weeks in a row there have been no changes among the top three albums, which are the same for the week of Feb 14 to 20, 2010.

Owen Pallett's Heartland is quite definitely the king of the charts in early 2010. Heartland has been #1 on five out of six charts published this year. Of course, Basia Bulat's Heart Of My Own at #2 and Beach House's Teen Dream at #3 have kept pace with the week's top album.

Spoon's Transference rebounds with a five place jump back to #4 this week after having held the #9 spot last week.

Woodhands' Remorsescapade sits at #5, followed by Woodpigeon's Die Stadt Muzikanten at #6, Vampire Weekend's Contra at #7, Los Campesinos!' Romance Is Boring at #8 and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's Kollaps Tradixionales at #9. The only new album among the top 10 is Hollerado's Record In A Bag, which rockets 18 places to #10.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to RJD2's The Colossus, which arrives at #22. The runner-up new entry is The Wicked Awesomes!' Punk Holograms at #28 followed immediately by Chris Page's A Date With A Smoke Machine at #29.

Other notable new entries include a couple of veteran acts. Massive Attack's Heligoland debuts at #40 and Pointed Sticks' Three Lefts Make A Right, which arrives at #44. Heligoland is Massive Attack's first release since 2003's 100th Window. Three Lefts Make A Right is the seminal Vancouver punk band's second release since regrouping after a 25-year hiatus.

Three of the specialty charts have new #1 albums and there are significant new entries on most of the top tens.

The World/Folk chart has a new top album, as Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's I Speak Fula rises eight places to take over the #1 position. Four Tet's There Is Love In You rises a place to capture top spot on the Electronic chart. Gordon Grdina's East Van Strings' The Breathing Of Statues climbs to the #1 spot on the Jazz/Blues top 10 with a seven place jump.

While Sacrifice's The Ones I Condemn continues to dominate the Metal/Punk chart and has now held the top spot here for five weeks (though not in a row), there are three albums appearing in double figures on that chart.

Baroness' Blue Record has lasted 15 weeks at #9, and both The Ones I Condemn and Priestess' Prior To The Fire (#4) have logged 14 weeks each. This is remarkable, since the chart welcomes four new albums this week: Aeternam's Disciples Of The Unseen at #6, Overkill's Ironbound at #7, Freya's All Hail The End at #8 and Divinity's The Singularity at #10.

Finally, Ghettosocks' Treat Of The Day holds onto the #1 spot on the Hip Hop chart, a top 10 which also features three new entries. Freeway & Jake One's The Stimulus Package debuts at #3, RJD2's The Colossus enters at #7 and Rel!g:on's  Revelationz 1 sneaks in at #10.