Owen Pallett's Heartland Creeps Closer To Stars' #1 Record

In late 2004, the Montreal's Stars started a run at #1 on the Canadian campus radio top 50 that has not never been matched. No one has come even near to breaking it.

For 11 consecutive weeks, Set Yourself On Fire sat in the #1 position from Nov. 11, 2004 to Feb. 4, 2005.

Owen Pallett's Heartland has now come the closest to matching this record. The album is at #1 again, and has now logged eight straight weeks in the top spot, giving it the second-longest number of weeks at #1 ever.

Yeasayer's Odd Blood rises four places to take over the #2 spot on the chart for the week of March 7 to 13.

Meanwhile, Vampire Weekend's Contra switches places with Los Campesinos!' Romance Is Boring. Contra moves up two places to #3, while Romance Is Boring falls two positions to #5.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's Kollaps Tradixionales holds on to the #4 spot for a second week, remaining sandwiched between these two albums.

This week's Chart Sizzler goes to Ghostkeeper's self-titled release. The Calgary-based quintet first had chart success with 2008's …And The Children Of The Great Northern Muskeg, which lasted six weeks on the chart, peaking at #19 that year. Ghostkeeper has already bested that mark, debuting at #6.

The Pinecones' Sage jumps five spots to #7, followed by Zeus' Say Us rising seven spots to #8. Jason Collett's Rat A Tat Tat holds onto #9 again this week, while Beach House' Teen Dream moves back up the chart four spots to #10.

There were a number of other high-charting new entries. Gigi's Maintenant debuts at #16, Local Natives' Gorilla Manor arrives at #24, Golden Triangle's Double Jointer enters at #27 and The Sheepdogs' Learn & Burn appears at #30.

Said The Whale's Islands Disappear joins the elite, becoming the 26th album ever to reach the 20-week plateau. Islands Disappear rises four places to #35 in its 20th week on the chart.

The specialty charts had only two new #1s, with one of these being a #1 debut. Drumheller's Glint takes the top spot on the Jazz/Blues top 10.

Meanwhile, Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate's self-titled collaboration moves up four places to top the World/Folk chart.  

Things look same-y elsewhere. Fucked Up's Couple Tracks holds onto the #1 position on the Metal/Punk chart. Four Tet's There Is Love In You sits at #1 on the Electronic top 10, and Freeway & Jake One's The Stimulus Package continues to dominate the Hip Hop chart.