The Besnard Lakes Roar Up To #1

After months of no change at the top of the campus chart, the flood gates have opened with two straight weeks of displacement at #1.

The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night was a dark horse to hit #1 last week, but The Besnard Lakes' eight position rise allows them to grab the top spot on the campus chart for the week of March 21 to 27.

The Montreal band racked up 1,025 points to garner the highest composite total, narrowly beating out Jason Collett's Rat A Tat Tat by a single point. Collett holds onto the #2 spot agin this week.

Zeus' Say Us falls two places to #3, but had 975 points. Ghostkeeper's self-titled is pushed down a position to #4, followed by Basia Bulat's Heart Of My Own, which holds onto the #5 position again. Yeasayer's Odd Blood jumps up two spots to claim #6.

Hot Chip's One Life Stand jumps seven spot to #7 followed by Gorillaz' Plastic Beach parallel seven spot move to #8. Joanna Newson's Have One On Me makes the biggest ascent among the top albums by rocketing up the chart 23 places to #9.

The Chart Sizzler Award goes to Liars' Sisterworld, which enters the campus chart at #10. Six stations across Canada charted Sisterworld. It took the #1 position on CKCU (Carleton), hit #5 at CHRW (UWO) and was #6 at CKUT (McGill).

Pavement's Quarantine The Past greatest hits retrospective enters the chart at #17, followed by Ted Leo And The Pharmacists' The Brutalist Bricks at #23, the self-titled release from Happy Birthday at #24 and Harlem's Hippies at #25.

On the five specialty charts two have the same #1s as last week: Drumheller's Glint on the Jazz/Blues top 10 and High On Fire's Snakes For The Divine on the Metal/Punk chart.

Two of the top tens have a new #1s that have already sat in that position: Ghettosocks' Treat Of The Day rises three places to recapture #1 on the Hip Hop chart, while Woodhands' Remorsescapade slides up a spot to regain #1 on the Electronic top 10. Both of these albums sat at #1 several weeks ago.

The only chart featuring a band new #1 album is the World/Folk chart, where the Pomegrantes: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk And Psych Of The 60s And 70s complilation rises six spots to grab the top spot.