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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 October 21, 2008

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

Top 50

  1. Jay Crocker** - Below The Ocean Over (Artunit)
  2. Pine Tarts** - Faux Fauves (Independent)
  3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science (Geffen)
  4. Rae Spoon** - Superior You Are Inferior (Washboard)
  5. Young Widows - Old Wounds (Temporary Residence)
  6. Exploding Pigs** - Exploding Pigs (Independent)
  7. Shearing Pinx/Stamina Mantis* - Shearing Pinx/Stamina Mantis (Reluctant)
  8. The City Streets* - Concentrated Living (Paperbird)
  9. Michael Rault* - Crash! Boom! Bang! (Chickadee)
  10. Love Is All - Play 5 Covers (What's Your Rupture?)
  11. Marnie Stern - This Is ItÉ (Kill Rock Stars)
  12. Volcano! - Paperwork (Leaf)
  13. Catfish Haven - Devastator (Secretly Canadian)
  14. Japanese Motors - Japanese Motors (Vice)
  15. The Rosebuds - Life Like (Merge)
  16. Sylvie* - Trees and Shade Are Our Only Fences (Smallman)
  17. Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
  18. Lambchop - Ohio (Merge)
  19. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
  20. These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower And Dove (Suicide Squeeze)
  21. Herman Dune - Next Year In Zion (Everloving)
  22. Dungen - 4 (Kemado)
  23. Madlib The Beat Konducta - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip (Rapster)
  24. D.O.A.* - Northern Avenger (Sudden Death)
  25. Karl Blau - Nature's Got Away (K)
  26. Miniature Tigers - Tell It To The Volcano (Modern Art)
  27. Lady Dottie & The Diamonds - Lady Dottie & The Diamonds (Hi-Speed Soul)
  28. Chad VanGaalen** - Soft Airplane (Flemish Eye)
  29. Mutators* - Secret Life (Nominal)
  30. Simon Fisk/Chris Gestrin/Jerry Granelli** - Vague Hotels (Plunge)
  31. Antony & The Johnsons - Another World (Secretly Canadian)
  32. The Spinto Band - Moonwick (Park The Van)
  33. The Fratellis - Here We Stand (Interscope)
  34. Fort Knox Five - Radio Free DC (Fort Knox)
  35. Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker* - Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8)
  36. Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fatcat)
  37. Various* - I Ate Your Legs (Thankless)
  38. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin (Matador)
  39. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (Matador)
  40. Dead Heart Bloom - Oh Mercy (KEI)
  41. Val Emmich - Little Daggers (No Code)
  42. Secret Machines - Secret Machines (TSM)
  43. Wire - Object 47 (Pinkflag)
  44. Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc)
  45. Manhattan Love Suicides - Manhattan Love Suicides (Magic Marker)
  46. Tobias Foberg - Turn Heads (Fire Egg)
  47. People Under The Stairs - Fun DMC (Gold Dust)
  48. Koushik* - Out My Window (Stones Throw)
  49. Final Fantasy* - Plays To Please (Blocks)
  50. The Weirdies In 3D* - The Weirdies In 3D (Independent)

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Electronic

  1. Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter (Aagoo)
  2. El Guincho - Alegranza (Young Turks)
  3. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
  4. Alias - Resurgam (Anticon)
  5. Spiral Into The Storm - A Futile Veneer (Decibel Palace)
  6. Dot Tape Dot - Tomavistas (Other Electricities)
  7. Brazilian Girls - NYC (Verve)
  8. Pram - The Moving Frontier (Domino)
  9. Hearts of Palm UK - For Life (Hypnote)
  10. I Led 3 Lives - Peace Now (Nublu)

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Hip Hop, Funk & Soul

  1. Madlib The Beat Konducta - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip (Rapster)
  2. Fort Knox Five - Radio Free DC (Fort Knox)
  3. People Under The Stairs - Fun DMC (Gold Dust)
  4. Various - Jakeone Presents: White Van Music (Rhymesayers)
  5. Josh Martinez* - The World Famous Sex Buffet (Camobear)
  6. The High Decibels - The High Decibels (Rolling Jack)
  7. Cyne - Pretty Little Things (Hometapes)
  8. Fannypack - Ghetto Bootleg (Tommy Boy)
  9. DJ K.O. - DJ K.O. Presents Picture ThisÉ (Shaman Work)
  10. Common Market - Tobacco Road (Hyena)

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World

  1. Shivaboom* - Eccodek (White Swan)
  2. Burning Spear - Jah is Real (Burning Spear)
  3. O'Luge* - Movements (Last Gang)
  4. Various - Putumayo Presents: Acoustic Arabia (Putumayo)
  5. Cordero - De Donde Eres (Bloodshot)
  6. Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers (Anti)
  7. Issa Bagayogo - Mali Koura (Six Degrees)
  8. Various - Putumayo Presents: Acoustic France (Putumayo)
  9. Silk And Bamboo Ensemble - Traditional Chinese Music (ARC)
  10. Rainbow Arabia - The Basta (Tiny Man)

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Jazz

  1. L'Orkestre Des Pas Perdus* - Projet 9 (Cross Current)
  2. Jane Bunnett* - Embracing Voices (EMI)
  3. Mark Dejong* - The Unknown (Chronograph Records)
  4. Cory Weeds Quartet* - Big Weeds (Cellar Live)
  5. Joel Haynes Trio & Seamus Blake* - Transitions (Cellar Live)
  6. Bob Mintzer Big Band - Swing Out (Manchester Craftsmen's Guild)
  7. Blink - The Epidemic Of Ideas (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Sharel Cassity - Just For You (DW)
  9. Bobby Previte & The New Bump - Set The Alarm For Monday (Palmetto)
  10. Robert Walter - Cure All (Palmetto)

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Folk

  1. Jolie Holland - The Living And The Dead (Anti)
  2. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher (Nettwerk)
  3. Taj Mahal - Maestro (Heads Up)
  4. The Arrogant Worms* - Tor-pid (Independent)
  5. Annabelle Chvostek* - Resilience (Borealis)
  6. Loudon Wainwright III* - Recovery (Yep Roc)
  7. Farideh* - Symphony of Chemistry (Independent)
  8. The Iguanas - If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times (Yep Roc)
  9. Michael Jerome Browne* - This Beautiful Mess (Borealis)
  10. Loco Zydeco - Time To Turn The Key (Flaming Cheese)

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Metal

  1. Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse (Nuclear Blast)
  2. Misery Index - Traitors (Relapse)
  3. Metal Church - This Present Wasteland (SPV)
  4. Gales of Avalon** - Gales of Avalon (Independent)
  5. Brother Von Doom - Relentless (Deathcote)
  6. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (Metal Blade)
  7. Vortex* - In Movement (Convergence)
  8. Fifty Watt Head - Fogcutter (Signed By Force)
  9. Exmortus - In Hatreds Flame (Heavy Artillery)
  10. Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder (Roadrunner)

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Experimental

  1. Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker* - Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8)
  2. Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fatcat)
  3. Baja - Wolfhour (Other Electricities)
  4. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  5. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (Fat Cat)
  6. Aspects Of Physics - Marginalized Information Forms Two: Cummulative ErRror (Imputor?)
  7. Various* - So You Want To Write A Fugue? A Celebration of Glenn Gould (Centrediscs)
  8. Bitcrush - Shimmer and Fade (n5MD)
  9. Coin Gutter* - Pigeonless (Vanity)
  10. Menace Ruine* - The Die Is Cast (Alien8)

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