charts

CJSW's weekly music charts are created based on the number of spins new titles are receiving at the station. Previous week's charts can be accessed from the menu on the right.

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The items on each chart are listed as follows: #. Artist - Title (Label)
* indicates Canadian artist.
** indicates local artist.

Charts for week ending April 21, 2009

Top 50! | Electronic | Hip Hop, Soul, Funk | World | Jazz | Folk | Metal | Experimental

Top 50!

  1. Julie Doiron* - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Endearing)
  2. Thermals - Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
  3. Cam Penner** - Trouble & Mercy (Prarie Boy)
  4. Get Down* - Dirty Power (Transistor 66)
  5. Lhasa* - Lhasa (Audiogram)
  6. Crystal Antlers - Tentacles (Touch n Go)
  7. Great Lake Swimmers* - Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
  8. Lorrie Matheson** - In Vein (Saved By Radio)
  9. Brenda Vaqueros** - Brenda Vaqueros (Ant Farm)
  10. Church Of The Very Bright Lights** - Pagoda Faults (Face Less Yeti)
  11. Various - Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records (Merge)
  12. PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By (Islands)
  13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz (Interscope)
  14. Chain And The Gang - Down With Liberty… Up With Chains! (K)
  15. Kara Keith* - Vision's Fugitives (Self-Released)
  16. Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (Warp)
  17. Faunts* - Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. (Friendly Fire)
  18. Woodpigeon** - Treasury Library Canada / Houndstooth Europa (Boompa)
  19. Rodney Guitarsplat Brent** - Two Songs (Self-Released)
  20. I Was A King - I Was A King (Hype City)
  21. Still Flyin' - Never Gonna Touch The Ground (Ernest Jenning)
  22. Starsailor - All the Plans (EMI)
  23. Decemberists - The Hazard of Love (Capitol/EMI)
  24. Joel Plaskett* - Three (Maple)
  25. Coathangers - Scamble (Suicide Squeeze)
  26. Lotus Plaza - Lotus Plaza (Kranky)
  27. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
  28. A.C. Newman* - Get Guilty (Last Gang)
  29. The Von Bondies - Love, Hate, And Then There's You (Majordomo)
  30. M. Ward - Hold Time (Merge)
  31. Cazals - What Of Our Future (Kitsune)
  32. Mr. Scruff - Ninja Tuna (Ninja Tune)
  33. Releveler** - Incipient (Interdimensional Industries)
  34. Various* - Uncovered (CKUW)
  35. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers* - Olenka And The Autumn Lovers (Maple)
  36. Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands (Parlophone)
  37. MXPX - On the Cover II (Tooth & Nail)
  38. Reigning Sound - Live at Goner Records (Goner )
  39. Razorlight - Slipway Fires (Mercury)
  40. Jokers Daughter - The Last Laugh (Team Love)
  41. Adam Lipman - From Your Mouth To God's Ear (Shrimper)
  42. Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing (Columbia)
  43. This Is A Standoff** - Be Disappointed (Self-Released)
  44. Blackout Brigade* - Death And Dishonesty (Insurgence)
  45. Black Diamond Bay* - Calm Awaits (Self-Released)
  46. Grand Duchy - Petits Fours (Cooking Vinyl)
  47. Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
  48. Richard Swift - Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian)
  49. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)
  50. 1090 Club - Natural Selection (Sidecho)

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Electronic

  1. Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (Warp)
  2. Mr. Scruff - Ninja Tuna (Ninja Tune)
  3. Junior Boys* - Begone Dull Care (Domino)
  4. Thunderheist - Thunderheist (Big Dada)
  5. Arch Cupcakes - Box of Bees (Patriarch)
  6. City Rain - This I will Remember (Electronic Eel)
  7. Releveler** - Incipient (Interdimensional Industries)
  8. Hell - Teufelswerk (International DeeJay Gigolo)
  9. MSTRKRFT* - Fist of God (Last Gang)
  10. Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)

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Hip Hop, Soul, Funk

  1. N.A.S.A. - The Spirit of Apollo (Anti)
  2. Myka 9 - 1969 (Side Road)
  3. POS - Never Better (Rhymesayers)
  4. Illa J - Yancey Boys (Delicious)
  5. Alice Russell - Pot of Gold (Six Degrees)
  6. Ghettosocks & DJ Jorun Bombay* - I Can Make Your Dog Famous (Alpha Fight)
  7. Jazzanova - Of All The Things (Verve)
  8. Grand Analog - Touch Your Toes EP (Urbnet)
  9. People's Poet* - No Life Without Roots (Self-Released)
  10. Prolific* - Think (Prolific)

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World

  1. Amadou & Mariam - Weldome to Mali (Nonesuch)
  2. Various - African Reggae (Putumayo)
  3. Easy Star All-Stars - Easy Stars Lonely Hearts Dub Band (Easy Star)
  4. Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart (Rounder)
  5. Davy Sicard - Kabar (Up)
  6. Idaan Raichel Project - Within My Walls (Helicon)
  7. Andru Branch and the Halfway Tree - My Jamaican Weed (Kingston)
  8. Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (m80)
  9. Jean-Pierre Simons - Sentimentally... To Africa (Sighes Victory)
  10. Various - !Salsa! (Putumayo)

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Jazz

  1. The Now Orchestra* - Animal Tales (Now Orchestra)
  2. Jeff Younger's Sandbox* - The Nudger (Now Orchestra)
  3. Tony Monaco - Live At The Orbit Room: The Ultimate Jam (Chicken Coup)
  4. Ryan Meagher - Atroefy (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  5. Bruce Freedman African Groove* - Live At The Cellar (Now Orchestra)
  6. Har-You Percussion Group - Sounds Of Ghetto Youth (ESP)
  7. Don Cherry - Live At Café Montartre (ESP)
  8. Gutbucket - A Modest Proposal (Cuneiform)
  9. Tom Warrington Trio - Mountain (Jazz Compass)
  10. Sienna Dahlen* - Off the Floor… Into The Garden (Self-Released)

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Folk

  1. Cam Penner** - Trouble & Mercy (Prarie Boy)
  2. Bill Frisell - Best of Vol. 1 - Folk Songs (Nonesuch)
  3. Sumner Brothers - Sumner Brothers (In The Garage)
  4. William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark (Epitaph)
  5. Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right (Milan)
  6. Melissa Mcclelland* - Victoria Day (Six Shooter)
  7. Cyndi Harvell - The Night Turned to Sony (Fortune)
  8. Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
  9. Bruce Cockburn* - Slice O Life: Live Solo (True North)
  10. Kelly Joe Phelps* - Western Bell (Black Hen)

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Metal

  1. Mastodon - Crack The Skype (Reprise)
  2. Lithica** - Invokation Of Satan Within (Self-Released)
  3. Elegy - A Voice Will Call (Self-Released)
  4. Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre (Mascot)
  5. Hammer Horde - Under The Mighty Oath (Storm Surge)
  6. Julien-K - Death to Analog (Metropolis)
  7. Samael - Above (Nuclear Blast)
  8. Absu - Absu (Candlelight USA)
  9. Lion's Share - Dark Hours (Blistering)
  10. Urheimat** - The Gates To An Elder Constellation (Self-Released)

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Experimental

  1. Ion Zoo* - Set Free at the Cellar (Now Orchestra)
  2. Male - All Are Welcome (Other Electricities)
  3. Viviane Houle and Stefan Smulovitz* - la bell et la bete (Now Orchestra)
  4. Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Thin Air (Thirsty Ear)
  5. Parallel Worlds - Shade (DiN)
  6. SubtractiveLAD* - Where The Land Meets The Sky (n5MD)
  7. Nels Cline - Coward (Cryptogramophone)
  8. M. Templeton and aA. Munson* - Acre Loss (Anticipate)
  9. Blah Blah 666* - It's Only Life (Barnyard)
  10. Israel M - Nareah (Aagoo)

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