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Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy locks down #1 on the NACC 200 for a third straight week, besting the two-week run his WARM solo LP enjoyed on top at the beginning of 2019. Love Is The King (dBpm) fends off challenges from The Mountain Goats (4-2) and Eels (6-4), who will both make another run for the top next week, the last new charts of 2020.
Two new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. Death Valley Girls have risen 14-10. But it’s Vancouver hip-hop/electronic production duo Potatohead People (Nick Wisdom and Nate “AstroLogical” Drobner) who makes the biggest move, jumping 17-9 with Mellow Fantasy (Bastard Jazz). The album also reaches #1 on NACC Canadian this week.
Making the biggest climb into the NACC Top 20 is legendary Australian musician Nick Cave. He reached the Top 5 of the NACC 200 at the top of 2020 with Ghosteen (the best-reviewed album of 2019). His latest critically-acclaimed effort, Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace), out on Bad Seeds Ltd./AWAL, rises 35-16 this week.
The biggest move up the NACC 200 this week is made by Chicago quartet The Smashing Pumpkins. Co-founded in 1988 by Billy Corgan and James Iha, the band have released 11 LPs and scored 14 Alternative Rock Top 10s (most during their commercial heyday in the 90s). Their latest LP, CYR (Sumerian), leaps 163-22 this week.
This week’s most-added album comes from one of indie rock’s most prolific bands, Guided By Voices. Led by Robert Pollard (the band’s principal songwriter and only permanent member dating back to their inception in 1983), GVB has released thirty-two LPs, including their latest, Styles We Paid For (GVB Inc.), their third of 2020. The album joins their previous release, Mirrored Aztec, on the NACC 200 this week debuting at #180.
After first topping the NACC Singles Chart three weeks ago, The Shins return to #1 this week with “The Great Divide,” the second song they’ve taken to #1 at NACC Singles. Collecting more Top 10 Adds than any other single adding this week is super-producer, former Vampire Weekend member, and solo musician, Rostam with his covers of The Stokes “Under Control” b/w “Fairytale Of New York” (the Pogues Christmas classic).
The NACC Top 5 overall Adds, this week’s genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new chart-toppers at NACC Canadian, Heavy, and Electronic.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) GUIDED BY VOICES Styles We Paid For [GBV Inc.] // 50
2) CALEXICO Seasonal Shift [Anti-] // 49
3) KHRUANGBIN Late Night Tales [Night Time Stories] // 47
4) QUARTER LIFE CRISIS Quarter-Life Crisis [Saddle Creek] // 46
5) ARCTIC MONKEYS Live At Royal Albert Hall [Domino] // 42
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) KACY AND CLAYTON AND MARLON WILLIAMS Plastic Bouquet [New West] // 57
2) ALEX MAAS Luca [Innovative Leisure] // 63
3) KARAOKE Blood, Piss, Religion, Pain [Self-Released] // 74
4) CAMILA FUCHS Kids Talk Sun [Felte] // 76
5) JOAN OF ARC Tim Melina Theo Bobby [Joyful Noise] // 89
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) SMASHING PUMPKINS, THE CYR [Sumerian] // 141
2) ARLO PARKS Collapsed In Sunbeams [Advance Tracks] [Transgressive] // 119
3) BADGE EPOQUE ENSEMBLE Self-Help [Telephone Explosion] // 100
4) KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD KG [Flightless] // 82
5) JUANA MOLINA ANRMAL (Live In Mexico) [Crammed] // 81
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: JEFF TWEEDY Love Is The King [dBpm]
NACC NEXT: GORILLAZ Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez [Parlophone/Warner]
BLUES: SHEMEKIA COPELAND Uncivil War [Alligator]
CANADIAN: POTATOHEAD PEOPLE Mellow Fantasy [Bastard Jazz]
CHILL: ANE BRUN After The Great Storm [Balloon Ranger]
ELECTRONIC: POLE Fading [Mute]
FOLK: RAYE ZARAGOZA Woman In Color [Self-Released]
HEAVY: HATBEBREED Weight Of The False Self [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: COMMON A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 1 [Loma Vista]
JAZZ: AZYMUTH, ADRIAN YOUNGE, AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD
Azymuth JID 004 [Jazz Is Dead]
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: SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme [Fat Possum]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: BLACK SUMMER Yeh [Tekzen]
FOLK (tie): ERIC SELBY “Another Page” (Single) [Self-Released]
JOSIE BELLO “Come Home” (Single) [Self-Released]
HEAVY: GAMA BOMB Sea Savage [Prosthetic]
HIP HOP: SNOTTY NOSE REZ KIDS Born Deadly (EP) [Self-Released]
JAZZ (tie): ALEXANDER MCCABE I’d Prefer [WAMCO]
DOUG CARN, ADRIAN YOUNGE, AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Doug Carn JID005 [Jazz Is Dead]
WORLD: KELEKETLA Keleketla! Remixes [Ahead Of Our Time]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: SHINS, THE “The Great Divide” [Aural Apothecary/Caroline]
#1 ADDED SINGLE: ROSTAM “Under Control” b/w “Fairytale In New York” [Matsor Projects]