Beach House soar from 12-1 this week with their seventh LP, 7. In doing so, they become only the third artist to climb from outside the Top 10 to the top spot since NACC began. Gorillaz (13-1) and Ty Segall (24-1) are the others. The Baltimore duo’s Sub Pop release also climbs to #1 on the NACC Next and Non-Comm Charts this week supplanting Dr. Dog on the top of all three charts. Beach House is one of college and community radio’s most successful acts of the last decade and has one of the most consistently well-reviewed catalogs of, really, any band, so it’s not too surprising to see them race to #1 after their lofty debut last week. The question will now be how many weeks they spend on top.
The other album reaching the Top 10 this week also happens to be the biggest climber to get in that region, racing 72-6. It comes from the much-heralded Sheffield, England quartet, Arctic Monkeys. They won the Mercury Prize for their debut album in 2006, which also became the fastest selling debut album by a band in UK chart history. They’ve won seven Brit Awards and have headlined the Glastonbury Festival twice. Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino (Domino) is the band’s sixth LP and first in five years, their longest gap between albums. It just became their sixth straight #1-debuting album in the UK and sold more vinyl copies in its first week than any other record has in 25 years!
This week’s highest debut comes from an artist that has been appearing on the NACC 200 since early March with advance tracks from her third LP, Tell Me How You Really Feel. Melbourne, Australia born Courtney Barnett got her start playing second guitar in a band called Rapid Transit. She then played in Dandy Warhols drummer Brett DeBoer’s band Immigrant Union. After going solo and releasing three EPs, her debut LP, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, came out in 2015 and landed on many ‘Best of 2015’ lists. Last year’s collaborative album with Kurt Vile reached #3 on the NACC 200. Her new Mom + Pop release is 2018’s fourth-highest debuting album on the NACC 200 opening at #23.
Making a massive one week climb on the chart this week is Now, Now. The Minneapolis-based duo of Cacie Dalager & Bradley Hale skyrocket from 200-26 with their third LP, Saved, out on Trans- Records. By climbing 174 spots on the NACC 200, the band technically tie Black Angels (though they climbed to a higher chart position [from 190-16] back in April of 2017) for the biggest one week climb ever on the NACC 200.
Landing most-added honors this week are New York City-based quartet Parquet Courts. Originally from Denton, Texas, the band formed in 2010 and put out their first album as a limited cassette release in 2011. The band then signed with What’s Your Rupture? (who put out their next three albums). Rough Trade put out Parquet Courts’ previous album as well as this, the band’s sixth LP, Wide Awake!, which has been met with universal acclaim. DIY calls it, “a gut-punch of an immediate classic” and Variety stated “Wide Awake! may be the most woke punk-rock record since the heyday of the Clash.” The album, in addition to the big add week, also scores the second-highest debut on the NACC 200 at #35.
This was one of the most active weeks with regard to turnover at the top in recent memory with seven charts sporting new #1s! We have also added top singles for the first time as we begin to build a comprehensive weekly Singles Chart. As of now, the NACC Singles Chart will only showcase stand-alone and singular advance release songs from forthcoming albums, but in the future, will expand to a stand-alone overall singles chart.