COLLEGE RADIO RECAP WEEK 17 CMJ ISSUE 1438

For whatever reason I feel like I need to get these out early every week but I am thinking about pushing it to late Wednesday or Thursday. If anyone has an opinion on that let me know.

This week Parquet Courts EASILY took #1 on the top 200. Only 100 stations did not chart Parquet Courts. So 62% of all stations reporting had them on there. I expect this to grow as well. Making the top 5 for the next few weeks a bit messy/ stressful if you are any other record.

1	2	5	1	4	PARQUET COURTS	Human Performance	Rough Trade
2	3	2	2	5	TACOCAT	Lost Time	Hardly Art
3	1	1	1	5	ANDREW BIRD	Are You Serious	Loma Vista
4	6	158	4	3	M83	Junk	Mute
5	5	8	5	4	YEASAYER	Amen And Goodbye	Mute

Obviously it will be interesting to watch M83 vs Parquet Courts over the next few weeks. Even more interesting is the timing of this weeks #1 add King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.  So many factors will go into these next few weeks. One of the biggest ones is final exams. They can make a mess of the charts. That plus MD's graduating and or stations going off air. Could be harder for some records to have traction. 

With Parquet Courts going #1 this week they have had a #1 record in each of the last 3 years. 

Pretty crazy. 

The first one was Issue 1350 

TW	LW	2W	PK	WKS	Artist	Recording	Label
1	3	8	1	4	PARQUET COURTS	Sunbathing Animal	What’s Your Rupture?
2	1	1	1	6	BLACK KEYS	Turn Blue	Nonesuch
3	2	2	2	6	CONOR OBERST	Upside Down Mountain	Nonesuch
4	5	71	4	4	JACK WHITE	Lazaretto	Third Man
5	10	14	5	3	ORWELLS	Disgraceland	Canvasback

They would stay #1 for 2 weeks drop to #2 and then regain the #1 spot for a third week.  Later that year (2014) they would go for adds on another record and get #1 early in 2015 for one week on issue 1375. 

TW	LW	2W	PK	WKS	Artist	Recording	Label
1	2	5	1	5	PARQUET COURTS	Content Nausea	What's Your Rupture?
2	1	1	1	7	TV ON THE RADIO	Seeds	Harvest
3	3	3	3	6	ARIEL PINK	Pom Pom	4AD
4	4	11	4	4	TY SEGALL	Singles 2	Drag City
5	5	2	2	7	DEERHOOF	La Isla Bonita	Polyvinyl

It will be interesting to see what kind of strides M83 makes this next week towards #1. 

The last record was 2011 and that can be a lifetime at college radio. Some stations forget artists if they don't have a record every 2 years. Of course artists like M83 or Modest Mouse or Black Keys or TV on the Radio can take some time and not have to worry about being forgotten. But some stations do forget.  Some station I talked to had no idea who Tegan and Sara was so they were new to them.  

I can't go back to the last time M83 was #1 on the CMJ charts but I can get pretty close. Issue 1229 was the last issue with M83 at #1 and the website currently goes back to 1239 so we miss it by 10. 

But we should take a look at that chart. 

M83 is still on there 

112	-	-	112	1	CARAVAN OF THIEVES	The Funhouse	United For Opportunity
113	71	74	23	13	CLOUD CONTROL	Bliss Release	Turnout
114	69	46	1	18	M83	Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	Mute
115	115	130	115	3	PUNCH BROTHERS	Who's Feeling Young Now	Nonesuch
116	103	100	100	4	ARCHERS OF LOAF	Vee Vee	Merge
117	86	55	55	5	JEALOUS SOUND	A Gentle Reminder	Music Is Subjective

Intersting for me to see Archers of Loaf on there since Pirate! is currently working his solo record. 

M83 would stay on the charts for 26 weeks! until issue 1247 and it may of stayed on longer had there not been the winter break. 

173	120	134	117	9	CHUCK PROPHET	Temple Beautiful	Yep Roc
174	117	177	117	5	YANN TIERSEN	Skyline	Anti
175	169	184	169	4	KASPER BJORKE	Fool	HFN
176	148	162	1	26	M83	Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	Mute
177	-	-	165	2	ANDRE WILLIAMS	Hoods And Shades	Bloodshot
178	-	-	6	15	PORCELAIN RAFT	Strange Weekend	Secretly Canadian
179	147	-	147	2	OUTER MINDS	Outer Minds	SouthPaw

But I wanted to also take a look at the top of the last charts we can go back to on CMJ 

1	3	1	6	TENNIS	Young And Old	Fat Possum
2	2	1	1	6	DR. DOG	Be The Void	Anti
3	4	70	3	4	SLEIGH BELLS	Reign Of Terror	Mom And Pop
4	8	17	4	4	GRIMES	Visions	4AD
5	3	2	1	12	BLACK KEYS	El Camino	Nonesuch
6	5	9	5	5	FRANKIE ROSE	Interstellar	Slumberland
7	16	18	7	4	MEMORYHOUSE	The Slideshow Effect	Sub Pop
8	18	-	8	2	HUNX	Hairdresser Blues	Hardly Art
9	13	13	9	3	FUN	Some Nights	Fueled By Ramen
10	6	6	6	6	SHARON VAN ETTEN	Tramp	Jagjaguwar
11	11	22	11	4	YELLOW OSTRICH	Strange Land	Barsuk
12	110	-	12	2	MAGNETIC FIELDS	Love At The Bottom Of The Sea	Merge
13	15	11	11	6	HEARTLESS BASTARDS	Arrow	Partisan
14	10	5	3	7	OF MONTREAL	Paralytic Stalks	Polyvinyl
15	17	12	12	4	ISLANDS	A Sleep And A Forgetting	Anti

How many of these records would have the chance at going #1 today? 

I think its just really neat to look back at how much can change in a year, 2 years longer... 

The longer the gap between records the harder it gets for them to keep that fan base. The Black Keys had a record a year for many years, Ty Segall has one every year pretty much now. 

However a counter to that is Sleater Kinney. The break between albums was longer than M83 by far but how they returned was part of the story. It was largely a surprise.  Is Pitchfork the major driver in what is still relevant. Looking at Sleater Kinney they came back and scored best new music 8.7 and were once again darlings. But also every record listed on Pitchfork from Sleater Kinney has at least an 8.3.  Perhaps that is the key. 

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