Owen Pallett's Heartland Stays At #1 For Seventh Week

Here's an expression that lost its cultural impact with a change in technology: the current campus radio charts are skipping like a scratched record! When vinyl skips, it jumps back a groove and plays the same section over and over again. That's how the recent charts have felt.

The Feb. 28 to March 6, 2010 campus chart shows Owen Pallett's Heartland continues to hold the #1 position on the chart for a seventh week, and Basia Bulat's Heart Of My Own stays at #2 for a fifth week. At least the campus chart over the past month has been full of heart!

Los Campesinos!' Romance Is Boring rises a place to #3, followed by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's Kollaps Tradixionales lifting two places to #4. Vampire Weekend's Contra stays put at #5, while Yeasayer's Odd Blood experiences a change in fortune. The former Chart Sizzler, which entered at #11, fell to #13 for a couple of weeks before rising seven places to #6 this week.

Woodhands' Remorsescapade jumps a spot to #8 with Hot Chip's One Life Stand  moving up a couple of positions to #8. Jason Collett's Rat A Tat Tat has the biggest upward move among the the top half of the chart. Rat A Tat Tat jumps 15 places to #9, while Woodpigeon's Die Stadt Muzikanten falls seven spots to #10.

Xui Xui's Dear God, I Hate Myself enters the campus chart at #17. It's the highest debut of the week and is awarded the invisible Chart Sizzler statue.

The Souljazz Orchestra's Rising Sun is the runner-up new entry, arriving at #21 followed by another jazz-tinged album, Jaga Jazzist's One-Armed Bandit, at #28.

The hip-hop oriented Radio Radio's Belmundo Regal debuts at #32 followed immediately by Blessure Grave's Judged By Twelve, Carried By Six at #33. Elizabeth Shepherd's Heavy Falls The Night enters at #43 with Shout Out Louds' Work at #44 and Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's I Speak Fula at #45.

Said The Whale's Islands Disappear edges closer to chart immortality, dropping six spots to #39 to register 19 weeks on the chart. That's almost twice as long as the next album, Sonic Avenue's self-titled debut, which falls 10 places to #25.

Three of the five specialty charts have new #1s. Fucked Up's Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 jumps four spots to take over the #1 position on the Metal/Punk chart. Both Pat Metheny's Orchestrion on the Jazz/Blues top 10 and Freeway & Jake One's The Stimulus Package on the Hip Hop chart move up a place to grab #1.

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's I Speak Fula remains at #1 on the World/Folk top ten while Four Tet's There Is Love In You is settled in at #1 on the Electronic chart.