HOLIDAY CHARTING HIATUS
The last active chart week of 2017 will be December 12. NACC will not accept station reports for the chart weeks of December 19 & 26, 2017 or January 2, 2018. Charting will re-open on Friday, January 5th for the January 9, 2018 chart week.
Make it three weeks on top for St. Vincent and her album MASSEDUCTION. She’s currently on her US Tour and receiving rave reviews. “Lavish,” “Dazzling” and “Spellbinding” are just some of the superlatives being heaped upon Annie Clark’s highly stylized high art meets rock ‘n’ roll live show. She’ll get her first real competition for the NACC 200 crown next week as Sharon Jones & The Dap-King race 8-3 this week and line themselves up for a possible #1.
As predicted last week, Fever Ray aka Karin Dreijer (formerly of Swedish brother-sister duo, The Knife) races into the Top 10 after landing most added honors last week. Her second album away from The Knife soars from 42-9 this week, becoming the lone new entry to the NACC Top 10. For a really fascinating read into the previously very elusive Dreijer, check out this week’s article/interview in The Guardian.
Debuting at #45 this week, the highest of the new albums on the NACC 200, is Twin Peaks. Not to be confused with the TV show or the sports-bar chain, this Twin Peaks is a Chicago quintet who formed in 2010 by childhood friends Jack Dolan and Connor Brodner when they were still in high school. Fun fact: Jack and Connor were suspended for 10 days for smoking in high school along with their friend Chancelor, who you may know better as Chance The Rapper. Sweet ’17 Singles Series, Vol 2. is the band’s second compilation of the singles they’ve been releasing each month since June of this year.
It’s a rare artist that simultaneously enjoys wild commercial success and still keeps a large, loyal base at college and community radio and Sam Smith is one such artist. His debut LP, In The Lonely Hour, spawned massive commercial radio hits like “Stay With Me” and “I’m Not The Only One.” His new album, The Thrill Of It All, has already debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and given him another Top 5 single in the Billboard Hot 100 with “Too Good At Goodbyes.” It also happens to be, far-and-away, this week’s top climber on the NACC 200, jumping 180-51.
After last week’s huge add win for Fever Ray (nearly 50 Top 10 adds more than the #2 add), this week’s add race was a battle royale: three albums all within four adds of one another. In the end, OCS came out on top, edging out Mavis Staples and Sufjan Stevens. OCS have not released an album since 2005, but in that timespan released two albums as The Oh Sees, twelve albums as Thee Oh Sees and one album (just this past August) as Oh Sees. That album, Orc, was also a #1 Add, making OCS/The Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees/Oh Sees the only act with two #1 most-added records this year.
NACC 200 Chart: Top 5 ADDS
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# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1] OCS Memory Of A Cut Off [Head] //88//
2] MAVIS STAPLES If All I Was Was Black [Anti-] //87//
3] SUFJAN STEVENS The Greatest Gift [Asthmatic Kitty] //84//
4] MORRISSEY Low In High School [BMG] //70//
5] R.E.M. Automatic For The People (Reissue) [Craft] //52//
#1 On NACC Genre Charts:
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GENRE | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL
NON-COMM: BECK Colors [Capitol]
NACC NEXT: ST. VINCENT MASSEDUCTION [Loma Vista]
ELECTRONIC: ODESZA A Moment Apart [Counter]
HEAVY: CONVERGE The Dusk in Us [Epitaph]
HIP HOP: YOUNG RJ Blaq RoyalT [Ne’Astra]
JAZZ: BLUE NOTE ALL STARS Our Point Of View [Blue Note]
FOLK: MARGO PRICE All American Made [Third Man]
WORLD: LEE SCRATCH PERRY AND SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM Super Ape Returns To Conquer [Subatomic Sound]