Pallett's Heartland Holds #1 For Sixth Week!

The trend on the Canadian campus radio chart so far this year is for contributing stations to continue to play established albums. Individual campus charts have only made incremental changes, thus the impact on the overall top 50 chart has been negligible.

Owen Pallett's Heartland remains at #1 for a sixth consecutive week, followed by Basia Bulat's Heart Of My Own at #2 — a place Bulat has remained for four straight weeks.

Woodpigeon's Die Stat Muzikanten jumps up three places to #3, followed by Los Campesinos!' Romance Is Boring, which leaps four spots to #4. Vampire Weekend's Contra, which sat at #3 a month ago, rises two places to #5 this week.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's  Kollaps Tradixionales rebounds with a three place rise to #6, with the Yukon Blonde eponymous release jumping seven spots to #7. Woodhands' Remorsescapade slides three spots to #8, followed by Spoon's Transference's four position dip to #9. Hot Chip's One Life Stand enters the top 10 with a eight place move to #10.

There was some serious competition for this week's Chart Sizzler Award between a couple of entries in the mid 20s. The Album Leaf's A Chorus Of Storytellers arrives at #23, edging out a hometown favourite, Jason Collett's Rat A Tat Tat, which slides in at #24. Collett bested Zeus, his backing band, this week. Their Say Us release debuted at #39.

There were a couple of interesting new entries ahead of that album. Jenny Whiteley's Forgive Or Forget enters at #28, Brasstronaut's Mt. Chimaera debuts at #35 and Matthew Barber's True Believer arrives at #38.

There are only two records with more than 10 weeks' service on the chart. Said The Whale's Islands Disappear actually rises a place to #33 in its 18th week, while Tegan And Sara's Sainthood jumps up seven spots to #32 after 15 weeks on the top 50.

The five specialty charts are also suffering from the programming malaise outside of the topsy-turvy world of the Jazz/Blues top 10, which rarely features returning #1 albums.

That chart sees last week's #9 entry rise to #1 in the form of Red Blue Green Band's Transparent Thesis. The top 10 also features three new entries led by Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone's Thin Air at #8.

The only other specialty chart with a new #1 is the Hip Hop top 10. Magnum K.I.'s self-titled release moves up a spot to grab top spot here. This chart also features new arrivals Galactic's Ya-Ka-May at #8 and Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here at #10.

Sacrifice's The Ones I Condemn reamins at #1 after 15 weeks on the Metal/Punk chart. This length of stay is matched by Priestess' Prior To The Fire, which falls two spots to #6. Barn Burner's Bangers debuts at #4, Fear Factory's Mechanize at #8 and Orphaned Land's The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR at #10.

Four Tet's There Is Love In You holds onto the top spot on the Electronic top 10, joined this week by three newbies: Massive Attack's Heligoland at #3, Toro Y Moi's Causers Of This at #7 and Ernest Gonzales's Been Meaning To Tell You at #8.

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's I Speak Fula returns as the #1 album on the Wold/Folk chart ahead of four new entries. Paulo Borges' Olhos Pretos arrives at #5, followed by Razia's Zebu Nation at #6. Beautiful Nubia And The Roots Renaissance Band's Irinajo debuts at #8, while Zingaros' Cirkari arrives at #9.

Finally, the longest-serving album on the five specialty charts this week is the Ghana Special compilation, which falls four spots to #10 in its 16th week on the World/Folk top 10.