The battle for #1 on the NACC 200 this week was a four-artist fight between last week’s #1 from Sylvan Esso and three artists rising up inside the Top 5: Death Valley Girls, Beabadoobee, and Gorillaz. In the end, Beabadoobee (the recording name for British singer Beatrice Laus) rose 4-1 with her debut LP, Fake It Flowers (Dirty Hit). Gorillaz (up 5-3) will give Beabadoobee another run for #1 next week.
Longtime indie-rock favorite Jeff Tweedy makes the biggest climb into the NACC Top 10 this week with his fourth solo LP away from his band Wilco. Love Is The King (dBpm) leaps 65-8. Two other albums also reach the NACC Top 10: Helena Deland’s Someone New (14-9) and The Mountain Goats’ Getting Into Knives (10-6).
San Francisco trio Fuzz (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, and Chad Ubovich) enjoys the NACC 200’s biggest climb this week with their cleverly-titled third LP, III (In The Red). Formed in 2011, III is their first LP since 2015 and it jumps from 130-24.
The fourth LP from Barcelona, Spain-based trio Mourn is the highest debut on the NACC 200 this week. Fronted by co-vocalists and long-time best friends Carla Pérez Vas and Jazz Rodríguez Bueno, this is the band’s first album since the departure of drummer Antonio Postius. Self Worth (Captured Tracks) jumps onto the NACC 200 at #38.
Formed in 1995, Los Angeles band Eels returns with their 13th LP, Earth To Dora (E-Works/PIAS). The album is this week’s most-added, collecting 78 Top 10 Adds. Eels is largely the brainchild of Mark Oliver Everett (known by the stage name E) who is the only constant member of the band over the course of its existence.
Critically acclaimed singer and actress, Janelle Monáe, rises 3-1 on NACC Singles this week with “Turntables,” from the Amazon movie All In: The Fight For Democracy. Alaska Reid’s new song “Boys From Town” is this week’s most-added single and the only one to land on the overall NACC Top 30 Adds Chart this week.
The NACC 200’s Top 20, the Top 5 overall NACC Adds, this week’s genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. In addition to the returns to #1 at NACC Non-Comm, NACC Canadian, and World, there are new chart-toppers at Jazz, Heavy, Chill, Electronic, Blues, and Latin.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) EELS Earth To Dora [E-Works/PIAS] // 78
2) NOTHING The Great Dismal [Relapse] // 62
3) YUKON BLONDE Vindicator [Dine Alone] // 60
4) POTATOHEAD PEOPLE Mellow Fantasy [Bastard Jazz] // 40
5) PEEL Peel (EP) [Innovative Leisure] // 39
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) MOURN Self Worth [Captured Tracks] // 37
2) OMAR APOLLO Apolonio [Warner] // 44
3) PREP PREP [Bright Antenna] // 54
4) COMMON A Beautiful Reolution Pt. 1 [Loma Vista] // 80
5) ACTRESS Karma & Desire [Ninja Tune] // 84
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) FUZZ III [In The Red] // 106
2) THIS IS THE KIT Off Off On [Rough Trade/Beggars] // 91
3) SUUNS Fiction [Joyful Noise] // 86
4) SHINS, THE “The Great Divide” (Single) [Aural Apothecary/Caroline] // 83
5) LUPIN Lupin [Grand Jury] // 71
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: FLEET FOXES Shore [Anti-]
NACC NEXT: GORILLAZ Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez [Parlophone/Warner]
BLUES: SHEMEKIA COPELAND Uncivil War [Alligator]
CANADIAN: YVES JARVIS Sundry Rock Song Stock [Anti-]
CHILL: ANE BRUN After The Great Storm [Balloon Ranger]
ELECTRONIC: HOT CHIP Late Night Tales [Night Time Stories]
FOLK: RAYE ZARAGOZA Woman In Color [Self-Released]
HEAVY: MOTORHEAD Ace Of Spades (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition [BMG]
HIP HOP: SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter [Rhymesayers]
JAZZ: ELLA FITZGERALD Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes [Verve]
LATIN: LA DAME BLANCHE Ella [Nacional]
R&B/SOUL: SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) [Daptone]
WORLD: VUSI MAHLASELA Shebeen Queen [ATO]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: POLE Fading [Mute]
FOLK: ADAM HURT Back To The Earth [Ubiquitone]
HEAVY: MACABRE Carnival Of Killers [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: POTATOHEAD PEOPLE Mellow Fantasy [Bastard Jazz]
JAZZ: PETE ELLMAN BIG BAND For Pete’s Ache [Self-Released]
WORLD: ILHAN ERSAHIN’S ISTANBUL SESSIONS Bir Zamanlar Simdi [Nublu]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: JANELLE MONAE “Turntables” [Bad Boy]
#1 ADDED SINGLE: ALASKA REID “Boys From Town” [Terrible]