Fiona Apple reigns the NACC 200 for a third week with her fifth LP, Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Epic) She also spends a second week atop both the NACC NEXT and NACC Non-Comm Charts. Apple is enjoying across-the-board success with the best-reviewed album so far this year. “Shameika,” the lead single from the album, has become her first charting radio hit at Billboard in over 20 years, placing on their AAA chart.
Four new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week, the most since early March. Shabazz Palaces rises 22-9, Lido Pimiento climbs 11-7, and Car Seat Headrest jumps 18-6. But it’s Chicano Batman who makes the biggest climb into the Top 10 this week, racing 97-10 with last week’s most-added album, Invisible People. The band’s fourth LP, out on ATO, is the year’s second biggest climb into the NACC 200’s Top 10.
The band so nice they named it twice is this week’s highest debut. Man Man formed in Philadelphia in 2003 but are now based in L.A. Their sixth LP (and first on Sub Pop), Dream Hunting In The Valley Of The In-Between, jumps aboard the NACC 200 this week at #28, the only new entry inside the Top 40 of the chart.
The biggest climber on the chart this week comes from the duo Diet Cig, who met at a house party in New Paltz, NY in 2014. Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman have just released their second LP, Do You Wonder About Me? (Frenchkiss) on May 1. Their album soars 190-31 on the NACC 200 this week, the biggest climb we’ve seen in five weeks.
Portland, OR quartet STRFKR collects the most Top 10 Adds this week. The band began as a solo project in 2007 for Joshua Hodges. Six LPs have followed, the most recent four on Polyvinyl Records. Future Past Life also debuts on the NACC 200 this week at #124.
The Rolling Stones hold down #1 on the NACC Singles Chart for a second week with “Living In A Ghost Town,” their first original new music since 2012. Dirty Projectors return with “Lose Your Love,” the first single from their upcoming Flight Tower EP. It’s the second in a series of five EPs they plan to release in 2020.
The NACC Top 5 overall NACC Adds, this week’s genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new #1s at World, Jazz, Folk, & Electronic.
NACC 200 CHART : TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) STRFKR Future Past Life [Polyvinyl] //49//
2) TIJUANA PANTHERS Pull The Chute (EP) [Innovative Leisure] //46//
3) BOAT Tread Lightly [Magic Marker] //40//
4) CHOIR BOY Gathering Swans [Dais] //39//
5) PURE X Pure X [Fire Talk] //37//
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Epic]
NACC NEXT: FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Epic]
BLUES: ROBERT CRAY BAND That’s What I Hear [Nozzle]
CANADIAN: TOPS I Feel Alive [Musique Tops/House Arrest]
CHILL: THIEVERY CORPORATION Symphonik [ESL]
ELECTRONIC: EMANCIPATOR Mountain Of Memory [Loci]
FOLK: LUCINDA WILLIAMS Good Souls Better Angles [Highway 20/Thirty Tigers]
HEAVY: TESTAMENT Titans Of Creation [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: RJD2 The Fun Ones [RJ’s Electrical Connections]
JAZZ: TROY ROBERTS Stuff I Heard [Toy Robot]
LATIN: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
R&B/SOUL: THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is [Brainfeeder]
WORLD: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: RAC BOY [Counter]
FOLK (tie): DAN BERN Quarantine Me [Kababa]
GRETCHEN PETERS The Night You Wrote That Song:
The Songs Of Mickey Newbury [Scarlet Letter]
HEAVY: PARADISE LOST Obsidian [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: BISHOP NEHRU Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts [Nehruvia]
JAZZ: GOGO PENGUIN GoGo Penguin [Blue Note]
WORLD: LADAMA “Nobreza” (Single) [Six Degrees]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: ROLLING STONES, THE “Living In A Ghost Town” [Universal]
#1 ADDED SINGLE: DIRTY PROJECTORS “Lose Your Love” [Domino]