Top 20 Albums Worldwide

Eighteen debuts, and for the second week running the chart has emptied itself out and refilled almost completely. The turnover is not the surprise - last week looked much the same. What is new is where it reached. For a month, Boards of Canada held number one through all of it; even last week, with a fresh debut sitting right behind them at two, the top would not move. This week it finally did. Two records climbed over Boards of Canada, who slip to 3, and last week's runner-up has tumbled most of the way down the board. In their place: a surprise jam record dropped on a Friday with no warning, an Oklahoma noise band named after toxic mining waste, a King Crimson tribute with Robert Fripp's blessing, a ballet about Pandora, and two hours of music for pipe organs tuned to centuries-old temperaments. America leads most of it. France, Britain, and Japan keep their corners. Let us count them down.