In all my years of charting The SubModern Report, I've never seen a week with five #1's! This is definitely a first! It starts with a tie on the singles chart between "Track and Field" by JJerome87 (Joe Newman of Alt-J) and "Going Shopping" by The Strokes. A tie for #1 single is rare enough, but then we have a three-way tie for #1 on the album chart as well! Last week's top album, Maybe Not Tonight from Lime Garden, is tied with "Horseshoe" from newcomers Beaming and The World Is To Dig from veteran band They Might Be Giants (their twenty-fourth record). So, wow! Congratulations all around!

Beyond that, another single by Broken Social Scene, "The Call", comes in at #3. An unfamiliar name, Devvy Dub, debuts with "Vision" at #4, tied with "Vendetta" by Temples. Another tie at #6 is between The Afghan Whigs' "House of I" and Cola's "Skywriter's Sigh". Finally, closing out the top ten are five tracks tied at #8 - "Yours (If You Want Me)" by The Bug Club, "Ginger Lemonade by Good Kid, "Partners In Crime" by Social Distortion, "No Driver" by Widowspeak, and Nation of Language's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Tougher Than The Rest".

Most of the remaining top ten albums are from those saem artists, like Social Distortion and Temples, whose fortcoming records Born To Kill and Bliss are tied at #4. The entire second half of the top ten is all tied at #6. Those five albums are Every Single Muscle from The Big Club, Cost Of Living Adjustment from Cola, Little Miss Sunshine from Eaves Wilder, Can We Hang Out Sometime? from Good Kid, and In Sound To All from ISTA. (Coincidentally two of those album titles are are based on artist names that are acronyms.)

To go beyond all of that, check the charts HERE. As for what's coming your way for this last week of April, check out the Available For Airplay list. You'll find new tracks by Beth Orton, Ceremony, Graham Coxon, IAN SWEET, Little Barrie, and Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, plus albums from Death Lens, Friko, Gia Margaret, Metric, White Denim, and a bunch more. With that, I'll wish you a great week. Catch you next time, hopefully with fewer #1's.

~ Josh T. Landow