After four weeks at #1 (which encompassed all of 2021 so far), Australian-duo The Avalanches steps aside. More than happy to grab the second #1 of the year is the British singer-songwriter and poet Arlo Parks. Her debut LP, Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive/PIAS), not only leaps to #1 on the NACC 200 this week after debuting at #7 last week, but her album is also the most dominant #1 the chart has seen since last February. She rises to #1 at both NACC Non-Comm and NACC NEXT this week as well.
Two albums make the NACC Top 10 this week. Big Thief’s Buck Meek climbs 11-9. Montreal six-piece The Besnard Lakes makes the biggest climb, rising 14-7 with the longest album title to ever reach the NACC Top 10: The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings. The album is the band’s sixth LP since forming in 2003 as well as its first on FatCat Records.
The NACC 200’s biggest climb this week comes from Los Angeles trio Cheekface. Forming in 2017, the band released its debut, Therapy Island, in 2019 and follows it up now with the sophomore effort, Emphatically No. (New Professor), which soars from 157-21 on the NACC 200 this week.
Begun in 1998, longtime Memphis quintet Lucero lands the chart’s highest debut this week at #30 with its twelfth album, When You Found Me. The new record is the second album released on their own Liberty & Lament imprint, which has been involved in releasing some of their previous releases as well as front-man Ben Nichols’ solo work.
English sister trio The Staves collects the most Top 10 adds this week with its third LP, Good Woman (Nonesuch). In addition to Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Stavely-Taylor’s first LP in six years taking most-added honors, the album also debuts on the NACC 200 at #95. The sisters tapped Grammy Award-winning producer John Congleton for their latest album after employing Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on their previous effort.
Teenage Fanclub wastes no time topping NACC Singles. After “I’m More Inclined” was last week’s most-added single, it soars 26-1 this week. It comes from their upcoming eleventh LP, Endless Arcade, due April 30. Go-to producer and co-founder of Vampire Weekend, Rostam, continues his string of well-received singles. “These Kids We Knew” becomes his second ‘most-added’ single in the last two months and debuts at #9 on NACC Singles as well as #155 on the NACC 200 this week.
The NACC Top 5 overall Adds, this week’s genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. In addition to the aforementioned Arlo Parks climbs to #1 at NACC Non-Comm and NACC NEXT, there are new chart-toppers at Heavy, Jazz, Latin, World, and NACC Canadian.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) STAVES, THE Good Woman [Nonesuch] // 62
2) CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH New Fragility [CYHSY/Secretly] // 58
3) SUN JUNE Somewhere [Run For Cover] // 56
4) FEMI KUTI Stop The Hate [Partisan] // 52
5) PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound [Marathon] // 44
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) LUCERO When You Found Me [Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers] // 30
2) CLOE WILDER Teenage Lullabies (EP) [Self-Released] // 36
3) NOTWIST, THE Vertigo Days [Morr] // 41
4) ALBERTINE SARGES The Sticky Fingers [Moshi Moshi] // 52
5) FOO FIGHTERS Medicine At Midnight [RCA] // 55
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) CHEEKFACE Emphatically No. [New Professor] // 136
2) TEENAGE FANCLUB “I’m More Inclined” (Single) [Merge] // 110
3) BICEP Isles [Ninja Tune] // 103
4) TOBE NWIGWE Cinoriginals [Self-Released] // 90
5) WEATHER STATION, THE Ignorance [Fat Possum] // 87
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: ARLO PARKS Collapsed In Sunbeams [Transgressive/PIAS]
NACC NEXT: ARLO PARKS Collapsed In Sunbeams [Transgressive/PIAS]
BLUES: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD Living In A Burning House [Alligator]
CANADIAN: RHYE Home [Loma Vista]
CHILL: ERIC HILTON The Impossible Silence [Montserrat House]
ELECTRONIC: WAX TAILOR The Shadow Of Their Suns [Lab’oratoire]
FOLK: STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES J.T. [New West]
HEAVY: ACCEPT Too Mean To Die [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: STATIK SELEKTAH The Balancing Act [Mass Appeal]
JAZZ: CORY WEEDS O Sole Mio! [Cellar]
LATIN: JUANA MOLINA ANRMAL (Live In Mexico) [Crammed]
R&B/SOUL: SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) [Daptone]
WORLD: FEMI KUTI Stop The Hate [Partisan]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: BRONSON BRONSON Remixes No. 2 (EP) [Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune]
FOLK: JORMA KAUKONEN AND JOHN HURLBUT The River Flows [Fur Peace Ranch]
HEAVY: BLACK SABBATH Vol 4 Revisited [Rhino]
HIP HOP (tie): TOBE NWIGWE Cincoriginals [Self-Released]
YEEK “3000 Miles (Baby Baby)” (Single) [AWAL]
JAZZ: ALLAN HARRIS Kate’s Soulfood [Love]
WORLD (tie): BOMBA ESTEREO Deja (Advanced Tracks) [Sony Latin]
FEMI KUTI Stop The Hate [Partisan]
MADE KUTI For(e)ward [Partisan]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: TEENAGE FANCLUB “I’m More Inclined” [Merge]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: ROSTAM “These Kids We Knew” [Matsor Projects]