COLLEGE RADIO RECAP WEEK 31

Sorry for the delay. I am currently in Los Angeles.

Our college radio summer continues to be pretty exciting week to week. We have had 2 non indie promoted #1 records when we had not had any for a long time.  We have had 2 records take #1, fall out of the top spot and retake it.  And this week we have another new number one and shockingly its not Blood Orange or Avalanches.

This week Badbadnotgood took the #1 spot and I feel like this record is a true college radio success story. Sometimes college radio can feel like its pretty easy to predict whats going to happen. Huge hyped band announces record, they get 100's of adds, shoot up the charts and go #1. But its nice to see a record seemingly take the number one spot organically.  Of course the indie deserves a lot of credit for this one as well.

I am not sure though if this record will hold on to the top spot for long there are a bunch of records making the climb to challenge for the top spot.

1	2	3	1	4	BADBADNOTGOOD	IV	Innovative Leisure
2	6	9	2	4	JULIE RUIN	Hit Reset	Hardly Art
3	5	6	3	4	AVALANCHES	Wildflower	Astralwerks
4	1	2	1	7	MITSKI	Puberty 2	Dead Oceans
5	3	4	3	5	BLOOD ORANGE	Freetown Sound	Domino
6	41	-	6	2	DINOSAUR JR.	Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not	Jagjaguwar
7	4	1	1	6	DEERHOOF	The Magic!	Polyvinyl
8	11	12	8	4	BAT FOR LASHES	The Bride	Warner Bros
9	7	5	4	9	WHITNEY	Light Upon The Lake	Secretly Canadian
10	9	11	9	5	DJ SHADOW	The Mountain Will Fall	Mass Appeal

At a certain point it looked like last weeks #1 most added would be as high as top 3 but they still impress coming in at #6.  The biggest surprises to me is the drop of Blood Orange as the hype really seemed to point towards another #1 record for them and the jump of Julie Ruin. I imagine next week should come down to Julie Ruin and Avalanches.  Who you got? ( Dark horse could be Dinosaur Jr. ) 

Adds this week was pretty tight this week. 

1	52	HEATERS	Baptistina	Beyond Beyond Is Beyond
2	51	OWEN	The King Of Whys	Polyvinyl
3	51	DESCENDENTS	Hypercaffium Spazzinate	Epitaph

Seems like the new normal for the number of ADDS lately.  I happen to be working on the Descendents record and was very excited to see it do so well. 

Lets take a look at the Spinitron charts 

1	85	The Avalanches	Wildflower	Rock
2	72	Dinosaur Jr.	Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not	Rock
3	67	BadBadNotGood	IV	Jazz
4	65	The Julie Ruin	Hit Reset	Rock
5	65	Whitney	Light Upon the Lake	Rock
6	64	Deerhoof	The Magic	Rock
7	60	Allen Toussaint	American Tunes	Jazz
8	60	Descendents	Hypercaffium Spazzinate	Rock
9	57	Case/lang/veirs	case/lang/veirs	Americana
10	56	Car Seat Headrest	Teens of Denial	Rock

Avalanches have been up there for a while now but the thing that stands out the most is Dinosaur Jr already at #2. Its nice to see a lot of the same records in the top 10 that we see on the CMJ charts. 

I wanted to also try and continue to give you CMJ updates on a regular basis. Even when there is not much to report.  

Earlier this week I received another email from a concerned station asking what was going on. It is weird that CMJ chooses not to communicate with its members but thats where we are.  So what is going on?  With no word from inside CMJ it's hard to say, we can say for certain that things are not ok. That is why I have started using Spinitron on a more regular basis. Is it a replacement for CMJ, no not yet but maybe it could be. At this point the number of active stations is about the same and could be more for Spinitron by the end of the year.  If I have any hard facts to share or if any former CMJ employees have anything new to share I will be more than happy to pass it on. But for now this is all I can share. 

Thank you for reading!