The First New NACC Charts of 2022 are here!

We hope the new year is finding you safe and healthy and that you enjoyed your holiday season the best you could. As new music releases begin to pick up again we’re here with the first new NACC Charts of the year. We’re excited to be back and we hope you are too! We look forward to your contributions to championing new music from great artists and getting as many ears on that music in the year ahead.

The first NACC 200 of 2022 capped off exactly the same way as the last one of 2021. Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Curtis Harding carried his third LP If Words Were Flowers (Anti-) over the holiday break and landed a second week at #1. He joins Beck as the only artist ever to carry a #1 from the end of one chart year into the beginning of the next. His album spends a third week atop the Soul/R&B Chart as well.

Two new albums reach the first NACC Top 10 of 2022. One makes an incredible splash as the second-highest debut ever on the NACC 200! After scoring the most-added album on the last adds of 2021, Seattle five-piece Fleet Foxes soars onto the chart at #3 with their first live album, A Very Lonely Solstice (Anti-). It follows two studio albums, 2017’s Crack-Up, and 2020’s Shore, both topping the NACC 200.

Joining Fleet Foxes in the Top 10 is Canadian singer/songwriter, Julie Doiron. The New Brunswick native has spent the last three weeks at #1 on the NACC Canadian Chart after landing a rare #1 debut there in early December. This week she jumps 18-8 on the NACC 200 with her first solo album since 2012’s So Many Days. I Thought Of You (You’ve Changed) gives her her first NACC 200 Top 10-peaking album.

Honorable mention this week goes to Big Thief for scoring the week’s biggest climb (199-69) with their EP, Change. The climb is a rebound as the EP actually peaked at #31 in late October. Making the biggest initial climb this week is the legendary Neil Young. Barn (Reprise) is the 14th Neil Young & Crazy Horse LP and Young’s 41st studio album overall. Over Young’s nearly 60 year career, he has won three Grammys, seven Junos, and been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame twice. Barn leaps 148-33 this week.

Two albums tie for most-added honors this week. Collecting 38 Top 10 Adds each are South African singer Alice Phoebe Lou, with her fourth LP, Child’s Play (Self-Released), and Brooklyn-formed and North Carolina-based quartet Yarn. Lou began making music in 2013 upon moving to Berlin. Yarn members Liam Manion and Sawyer Bush began playing together in college in 2018 and officially formed Yarn in 2020, releasing their first EP, I Said Goodbye And Then… (Self-Released) in December.

Austin, TX-based Spoon are, in real-time, enjoying one of the most successful singles ever on the NACC Singles Chart spending a seventh week at #1 with “The Hardest Cut,” the lead single from their upcoming 10th LP, Lucifer On The Sofa, due February 11. Father John Misty, who has topped the NACC 200 multiple times, is back with this week’s most-added new single, “Funny Girl.” It comes from his upcoming fifth LP, Chloë And The Next 20th Century, due out April 8.

This week’s Top 5 overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new #1s at NACC Non-Comm, Heavy, Latin, and Electronic as well as returns to #1 on NACC NEXT and Blues.

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS

1*) ALICE PHOEBE LOU Child’s Play [Self-Released] // 38
1*) YARN I Said Goodbye And Then… [Self-Released] // 38
3*) AEON STATION Observatory [Sub Pop] // 36
3*) SIS Gnani (EP) [Native Cat] // 35
5) MARBLE PARTY Time And Time Again [Self-Released] // 32
*denotes a tie

 

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT

1) FLEET FOXES A Very Lonely Solstice [Anti-] // 3
2) ARGUING WITH HURRICANES Arguing With Hurricanes [Joyful Noise] // 63
3) LITTLE DRAGON Drifting Out (EP) [Ninja Tune] // 67
4) WEEKEND, THE Dawn FM [Republic] // 95
5) MILAN RING I’m Feeling Hopeful [Astral People/PIAS] // 102

 

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE

1) BIG THIEF Change (EP) [4AD/Beggars Group] // 130
2) NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE Barn [Reprise] // 115
3) LUMINEERS, THE “Brightside” (Single) [Dualtone] // 109
4) EKKSTACY Negative [UnitedMasters] // 95
5) SAM FENDER Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe) [Universal] // 95

 

#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

NON-COMM: ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS Raise The Roof [Rounder/Concord]
NACC NEXT: WAR ON DRUGS, THE I Don’t Live Here Anymore [Atlantic]
BLUES: CAROLYN WONDERLAND Tempting Fate [Alligator]
CANADIAN: JULIE DOIRON I Thought Of You [You’ve Changed]
CHILL: MARCONI UNION Signals [Just]
ELECTRONIC: KEYS N KRATES Original Classic [Last Gang]
FOLK: ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS Raise The Roof [Rounder/Concord]
HEAVY: CONVERGE Bloodmoon [Epitaph]
HIP HOP: AESOP ROCK AND BLOCKHEAD Garbology [Rhymesayers]
JAZZ: HAROLD MABERN Mabern Plays Coltrane [Smoke Sessions]
LATIN: CEU Um Gosto De Sol [Urban Jungle]
R&B/SOUL: CURTIS HARDING If Words Were Flowers [Anti-]
WORLD: ORQUESTRA AKOKAN 16 Rayos [Daptone]

 

MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

ELECTRONIC: DJ HARRISON Sacred Spaces [Stones Throw]
FOLK: ERIC BANNAN Sacred Spaces [Reality Check]
HEAVY: WILDERUN Epigone [Century Media]
HIP HOP: RODDY RICCH LIVE LIFE FAST [Atlantic]
JAZZ: DAVE STRYKER As We Are [Strikezone 8821]
WORLD: VELCRO Te La Buscaste [Self-Released]

 

NACC SINGLES:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

#1 SINGLE: SPOON “The Hardest Cut” [Matador]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: FATHER JOHN MISTY “Funny Girl” (Single) [Sub Pop]