COLLEGE RADIO RECAP WEEK 18 CMJ ISSUE 1439

One year ago today Courtney Barnet held on to the #1 spot for the 4th week in a row and the dream ended for Modest Mouse.

1	1	1	1	7	COURTNEY BARNETT	Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit	Mom And Pop
2	4	6	2	5	WAXAHATCHEE	Ivy Tripp	Merge
3	34	-	3	2	ALABAMA SHAKES	Sound And Color	ATO
4	3	3	3	6	SUFJAN STEVENS	Carrie And Lowell	Asthmatic Kitty
5	5	5	5	5	TORO Y MOI	What For?	Carpark
6	2	2	2	13	MODEST MOUSE	Strangers To Ourselves	Epic

As you can guess, the next week Alabama Shakes took the #1 spot. 

Five years ago the number one record was Tv on The Radio 

Last year by this point there were 7 #1 records. There have been 8 so far this year so right on track. 

Lets get to this weeks chart! 

Parquet Courts holds a STRONG lead at #1 despite a valiant effort by Tacocat to cut into that lead. Parquet Courts still has over 60% of the stations on board and while there was a slight slow down I doubt that you will see a huge drop. We are in the midst of exam time and transition time from Spring to Summer so wholesale changes on the chart become difficult. 

Lets take a look at the top five. ( plus a few) 

1	1	2	1	5	PARQUET COURTS	Human Performance	Rough Trade
2	2	3	2	6	TACOCAT	Lost Time	Hardly Art
3	4	6	3	4	M83	Junk	Mute
4	3	1	1	6	ANDREW BIRD	Are You Serious	Loma Vista
5	6	7	5	6	FRANKIE COSMOS	Next Thing	Bayonet
6	5	5	5	5	YEASAYER	Amen And Goodbye	Mute
7	8	14	7	4	MODERAT	III	Mute
8	-	-	8	1	KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD	Nonagon Infinity	ATO

I wanted to include up to 8 just to highlight how fast King Gizzard is charging up. Frankie Cosmos makes a nice push into the top five but presumptive #1 M83 lags behind at #3. The parallels between this record and the Modest Mouse from last year are crazy. But time has not yet run out for M83. If King Gizzard were say in the top 5 I would call it all but over but the window is cracked open.

However if M83 does not go #1 its important to look at the 3 Mute records in the top 10. Being an indie  you sometimes have to work a few big records against each other and it can be difficult to juggle, it happens though and you get better at it. It doesn't happen that often though that they are all from the same label. 

I think Parquet Courts holds on another week and King Gizzard makes it up to #3 next week with M83 in the #2 hole. Making for a FUN week of chart watching. 

This weeks ADDS were not quite what I expected. I did expect White Lung to take the top spot but I expected them to get well over 100 adds. There were less reporters this week but if you just look at percentages, White Lung took 40% of the stations reporting adds. Whereas a big record will take at least 50%. 

Lets look at at the last few #1 records performance on ADDS 

Parquet Courts 57%

Andrew Bird 55%

Thao and the Getdown 44%

DIIV 44% 

Ty Segall 45% 

David Bowie 59% 

So most have made it above the 50% mark and the 3 that did not had over 100 adds. So perhaps you need to make one of those 2 benchmarks.  

So looking at this weeks ADDS 

1	86	WHITE LUNG	Paradise	Domino
2	83	PITY SEX	White Hot Moon	Run For Cover
3	60	ISLANDS	Should I Remain Here At Sea?	Manque
4	60	KYLE CRAFT	Dolls Of Highland	SUB POP
5	53	ROGUE WAVE	Delusions Of Grand Fur	Easy Sound
6	50	AESOP ROCK	The Impossible Kid	Rhymesayers
7	49	ESKIMEAUX	Year Of The Rabbit	Double Double Whammy
8	48	ISLANDS	Taste	Manque
9	40	BEAR HANDS	You'll Pay For This	Spensive
10	31	HURRY	Guided Meditation	Lame-O

It was close between White Lung and Pitty Sex throughout and while I doubt either will really challenge for #1 they should do well depending on what comes out the next few weeks.  I really think the most interesting record this week was one of my own. The new Islands records. 

We knew going in that working two different islands records would be difficult and would cost us a chance at #1. If you were to add up the 2 records adds and subtract the stations that added both you would of had well over 100 adds for Islands.  This happens pretty rarely that 2 records from an artist are worked at the same time. Last year Beach house had 2 records but they were at least spaced out by a few weeks.  I think it will be interesting to watch how stations respond to these 2 records in the upcoming weeks.  

Thanks for reading. 

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