Thursday, December 05, 2002
CMJ NMR Issue - 793
Top 200
TW LW 2W PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE LABEL
1 2 3 1 8 DONNAS Spend The Night Atlantic
2 1 2 1 4 SIGUR ROS ( ) MCA-PIAS America
3 5 8 3 6 BADLY DRAWN BOY Have You Fed The Fish? BMG-Artist Direct
4 3 1 1 15 BECK Sea Change DGC-Interscope
5 4 4 2 9 JURASSIC 5 Power In Numbers Interscope
6 7 9 6 5 BJORK Björk's Greatest Hits Elektra
7 11 14 7 4 ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT Live From Camp X-Ray Vagrant
8 10 13 8 5 TORI AMOS Scarlet's Walk Epic
9 9 11 9 6 JOHNNY CASH American IV: The Man Comes Around Lost Highway-American
10 6 5 4 8 JETS TO BRAZIL Perfecting Loneliness MORDAM-Jade Tree
these are the current top 10 albums at north american college radio, and they make me kinda sad. it all seems so by-the-numbers, with so little daring involved. the donnas? ooh, girls playing rawk, very exciting. sigur ros is good, quite talented, but getting a little sleepy. badly drawn boy, beck, and jurassic 5 are records fucking made for college radio - fine, artistic sure, but they just kind of sit there staticly (is that a word?). bjork's hits are great, but why not just play the old records? I didn't even know rocket from the crypt were still around, and wish they weren't - they were dull in '95 (when I was a college radio music director), and that hasn't changed. and it just kinda goes on from there. I'm not saying there aren't worthy artists on college radio these days, and that there aren't incredible, boundary-shoving stations (wcbn from ann arbor being one sterling example), but there's something vaguely stale about much of it these days. what is it?
while the north american (largely u.s.) college radio charts feel moribund, those of canada's college stations don't. ignore the fact that this chart is a couple weeks old and look at the comparable breadth of music played (from chart attack) (and yes, I know it's not entirely fair to compare a top 10 to a top 50, and yes, you'll get over it):
TOP 10 ALBUMS FROM CANADIAN CAMPUS/COMMUNITY RADIO AIRPLAY: 11/22/2002
LW TW # ARTIST ALBUM COMPANY
1 1 7 Hot Hot Heat * Make Up The Breakdown Sub Pop
3 2 6 Jurassic 5 Power In Numbers Interscope
2 3 9 Beck Sea Change Geffen
34 4 2 Sigur Ros Sigur Ros Fat Cat/Univers
8 5 5 Sadies * Stories Often Told Outside
6 6 7 Destroyer * This Night Merge
4 7 4 Godspeed You! Black* Yanqui U.X.O. Constellation
5 8 13 Neko Case Blacklisted Mint
13 9 4 Donnas Spend the Night Atlantic
12 10 3 Add N To (X) Loud Like Nature Mute
29 11 3 Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Come American
7 12 6 Hot Water Music Caution Epitaph
23 13 11 Tegan & Sara * If It Was You Universal
20 14 3 Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons XL/Beggars
-- 15 1 Badly Drawn Boy Have You Fed The Fish? Twisted Nerve
19 16 7 Mean Red Spiders * Still Life Fast Moving Teenage USA
14 17 3 Porcupine Tree In Absentia Lava/Atlantic
18 18 5 Cuff The Duke * Life Stories For Minimum Three Gut
-- 19 1 Various Artists Red Hot + Riot Universal
25 20 2 Hip Hop Weiners * All Beef, No Chicken Independent
15 21 7 Organ * Sinking Hearts Independent
-- 22 1 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Wins: Live Radio Warner
45 23 2 Atomic 7 Gowns By Edith Head Mint
10 24 2 Dears * Protest EP Independent
36 25 2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Machine EP Touch And Go
26 26 3 Flaming Sideburns Save Rock 'n Roll Jetset
RE 27 2 Kathleen Edwards * Failer Potty Mouth
16 28 8 Sixty Stories * Anthem Red Smallman
RE 29 2 Jets To Brazil Perfecting Loneliness Jade Tree
21 30 5 Supergrass Life On Other Planets Parlaphone
11 31 3 Twilight Circus DSS Dub Plates Vol. 3 M
37 32 3 Soundtrack Of Our Li Behind The Music Warner
-- 33 1 Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylo ESL/4AD
27 34 9 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The... Capitol
24 35 13 Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights Matador
35 36 8 Steve Earle Jerusalem E-Squared/Artem
30 37 2 Buck65 * Square Warner
28 38 12 Queens Of The Stone Songs For The Deaf Interscope
17 39 3 Delgados Hate Mantra/Beggars
-- 40 1 Rocket From The Cryp Live From Camp X-Ray Vagrant
-- 41 1 Bionic * Deliverance Sound King
-- 42 1 Bjork Greatest Hits Elektra
22 43 9 Ladytron Light & Magic Emperor Norton
RE 44 3 Black Heart Processi Amore Del Tropico Touch And Go
39 45 3 David Bowie Best Of Bowie EMI
RE 46 12 Sleater-Kinney One Beat Kill Rock Stars
38 47 3 Camper Van Beethoven Tusk Pitch-A-Tent
RE 48 2 Agendas Start The Panic Kindercore
50 49 4 Dirtmitts * Get On Sonic Unyon
-- 50 1 Veda Hille * Auditorium Independent
Based on airplay from Canadian campus/community radio. Legend:*-Canadian
Content, RE-Re Entry, #-# of Weeks on Chart, LW-Last Week, TW-This Week
Top 200
TW LW 2W PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE LABEL
1 2 3 1 8 DONNAS Spend The Night Atlantic
2 1 2 1 4 SIGUR ROS ( ) MCA-PIAS America
3 5 8 3 6 BADLY DRAWN BOY Have You Fed The Fish? BMG-Artist Direct
4 3 1 1 15 BECK Sea Change DGC-Interscope
5 4 4 2 9 JURASSIC 5 Power In Numbers Interscope
6 7 9 6 5 BJORK Björk's Greatest Hits Elektra
7 11 14 7 4 ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT Live From Camp X-Ray Vagrant
8 10 13 8 5 TORI AMOS Scarlet's Walk Epic
9 9 11 9 6 JOHNNY CASH American IV: The Man Comes Around Lost Highway-American
10 6 5 4 8 JETS TO BRAZIL Perfecting Loneliness MORDAM-Jade Tree
these are the current top 10 albums at north american college radio, and they make me kinda sad. it all seems so by-the-numbers, with so little daring involved. the donnas? ooh, girls playing rawk, very exciting. sigur ros is good, quite talented, but getting a little sleepy. badly drawn boy, beck, and jurassic 5 are records fucking made for college radio - fine, artistic sure, but they just kind of sit there staticly (is that a word?). bjork's hits are great, but why not just play the old records? I didn't even know rocket from the crypt were still around, and wish they weren't - they were dull in '95 (when I was a college radio music director), and that hasn't changed. and it just kinda goes on from there. I'm not saying there aren't worthy artists on college radio these days, and that there aren't incredible, boundary-shoving stations (wcbn from ann arbor being one sterling example), but there's something vaguely stale about much of it these days. what is it?
while the north american (largely u.s.) college radio charts feel moribund, those of canada's college stations don't. ignore the fact that this chart is a couple weeks old and look at the comparable breadth of music played (from chart attack) (and yes, I know it's not entirely fair to compare a top 10 to a top 50, and yes, you'll get over it):
TOP 10 ALBUMS FROM CANADIAN CAMPUS/COMMUNITY RADIO AIRPLAY: 11/22/2002
LW TW # ARTIST ALBUM COMPANY
1 1 7 Hot Hot Heat * Make Up The Breakdown Sub Pop
3 2 6 Jurassic 5 Power In Numbers Interscope
2 3 9 Beck Sea Change Geffen
34 4 2 Sigur Ros Sigur Ros Fat Cat/Univers
8 5 5 Sadies * Stories Often Told Outside
6 6 7 Destroyer * This Night Merge
4 7 4 Godspeed You! Black* Yanqui U.X.O. Constellation
5 8 13 Neko Case Blacklisted Mint
13 9 4 Donnas Spend the Night Atlantic
12 10 3 Add N To (X) Loud Like Nature Mute
29 11 3 Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Come American
7 12 6 Hot Water Music Caution Epitaph
23 13 11 Tegan & Sara * If It Was You Universal
20 14 3 Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons XL/Beggars
-- 15 1 Badly Drawn Boy Have You Fed The Fish? Twisted Nerve
19 16 7 Mean Red Spiders * Still Life Fast Moving Teenage USA
14 17 3 Porcupine Tree In Absentia Lava/Atlantic
18 18 5 Cuff The Duke * Life Stories For Minimum Three Gut
-- 19 1 Various Artists Red Hot + Riot Universal
25 20 2 Hip Hop Weiners * All Beef, No Chicken Independent
15 21 7 Organ * Sinking Hearts Independent
-- 22 1 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Wins: Live Radio Warner
45 23 2 Atomic 7 Gowns By Edith Head Mint
10 24 2 Dears * Protest EP Independent
36 25 2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Machine EP Touch And Go
26 26 3 Flaming Sideburns Save Rock 'n Roll Jetset
RE 27 2 Kathleen Edwards * Failer Potty Mouth
16 28 8 Sixty Stories * Anthem Red Smallman
RE 29 2 Jets To Brazil Perfecting Loneliness Jade Tree
21 30 5 Supergrass Life On Other Planets Parlaphone
11 31 3 Twilight Circus DSS Dub Plates Vol. 3 M
37 32 3 Soundtrack Of Our Li Behind The Music Warner
-- 33 1 Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylo ESL/4AD
27 34 9 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The... Capitol
24 35 13 Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights Matador
35 36 8 Steve Earle Jerusalem E-Squared/Artem
30 37 2 Buck65 * Square Warner
28 38 12 Queens Of The Stone Songs For The Deaf Interscope
17 39 3 Delgados Hate Mantra/Beggars
-- 40 1 Rocket From The Cryp Live From Camp X-Ray Vagrant
-- 41 1 Bionic * Deliverance Sound King
-- 42 1 Bjork Greatest Hits Elektra
22 43 9 Ladytron Light & Magic Emperor Norton
RE 44 3 Black Heart Processi Amore Del Tropico Touch And Go
39 45 3 David Bowie Best Of Bowie EMI
RE 46 12 Sleater-Kinney One Beat Kill Rock Stars
38 47 3 Camper Van Beethoven Tusk Pitch-A-Tent
RE 48 2 Agendas Start The Panic Kindercore
50 49 4 Dirtmitts * Get On Sonic Unyon
-- 50 1 Veda Hille * Auditorium Independent
Based on airplay from Canadian campus/community radio. Legend:*-Canadian
Content, RE-Re Entry, #-# of Weeks on Chart, LW-Last Week, TW-This Week
# posted by Thomas : 9:31 PM
