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This week, Beach House easily lands a fifth straight week at #1 on the NACC 200 with their eighth LP, Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop), extending their title for the longest run at #1 so far in 2022. This additional week at #1 also moves the Baltimore duo into a tie for fifth place with Soccer Mommy for the most cumulative weeks atop the NACC 200. Although there are now rising songs at #2 (Big Thief) and #3 (Nilufer Yanya), Beach House actually extends their lead over the next album on the chart once again this week.
Two albums not only reach the NACC Top 10 this week but soar into the top tier. Destroyer leaps 83-7 with the most-added album from last week. But making the biggest climb into the Top 10 is Guerilla Toss, a NYC-based band that formed in Boston in 2012. Three founding members remain including singer and violinist Kassie Carlson, drummer Peter Negroponte, and guitarist Arian Shafiee. The band’s fifth LP, Famously Alive (Sub Pop), is their first since 2018 and soars 115-9. It’s just the third album to climb from outside the top half of the NACC 200 into the Top 10 this year.
Orlando-born artist Lakisha Robinson, who records as Kilo Kish, has been making music since 2010. She’s released a number of EPs over the years and has been featured on albums from Gorillaz and Vince Staples. American Gurl (Kisha/Independent) is her second LP and her first since her 2016’s Reflections In Real Time. The album is this week’s highest debut on the NACC 200 opening at #33.
Four albums climb over 100 spots on the NACC 200 this week. The biggest among them comes from New Zealand’s Aldous Harding. Her fourth LP, Warm Chris, is her first for 4AD and jumps from 169-37 on the chart this week. Folk music certainly runs through Harding’s veins as her mother, Lorina, is also a folk singer.
London seven-piece Ibibio Sound Machine is back. Formed in 2010 by Leon Brichard, Benji Bouto, and Max Grunhard (who is the only one of the three still in the band), the trio of producers looked to fuse elements of 80s afrobeat with 90s drum-and-bass. They enlisted singer Eno Williams and since then have released four LPs, including their latest, Electricity (Merge). The album is this week’s most-added collecting 54 Top 10 Adds.
Last week’s most added single from Soccer Mommy was one of the most-added we’ve seen. This week “Wild Child” jumps 6-1 on NACC Singles and reaches a height on the NACC 200 that no single has ever reached, soaring 73-11. It’s the lead single from her forthcoming third LP, Sometimes, Forever, due June 24. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard enjoys the most-added single this week with “Magneta Mountain,” the second preview of their upcoming 20th LP, Omnium Gatherum, due April 22.
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 Hip Hop, Heavy, and Electronic as well as a return to #1 at Chill.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity [Merge] // 54
2) PILLOW QUEENS Leave The Light On [Royal Mountain] // 51
3) DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyez See Your Future [Loma Vista/Concord] // 49
4) CHRISTIAN LEE HUTSON Quitters [Anti-] // 45
5) WALT DISCO Unlearning [Lucky Number] // 40
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) KILO KISH American Gurl [Kisha/Independent] // 33
2) MARY VEILS, THE Esoteric Hex [PNKSLMl] // 46
3) CAMP COPE Running With The Hurricane [Run For Cover] // 57
4) DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyez See Your Future [Loma Vista/Concord] // 60
5) YOUNG PRISMS Drifter [Fire Talk] // 64
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) ALDOUS HARDING Warm Chris [4AD] // 132
2) BARRIE Barbara [Winspear] // 129
3) WALLOWS Tell Me That It’s Over [Atlantic] // 120
4) LISA LEBLANC Chiac Disco [Bonsound] // 111
5) GUERILLA TOSS Famously Alive [Sub Pop] // 106
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: BEACH HOUSE Once Twice Melody [Sub Pop]
NACC NEXT: BEACH HOUSE Once Twice Melody [Sub Pop]
BLUES: SUGARAY RAYFORD In Too Deep [Forty Below]
CANADIAN: BIG THIEF Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You [4AD/Beggars Group]
CHILL: BEACH HOUSE Once Twice Melody [Sub Pop]
ELECTRONIC: BOB MOSES The Silence In Between [Domino/Astralwerks/Capitol]
FOLK: AOIFE O’DONOVAN Age Of Apathy [Yep Roc]
HEAVY: MESHUGGAH Immutable [Atomic Fire]
HIP HOP: FLY ANAKIN Frank [Lex]
JAZZ: CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Ghost Song [Nonesuch]
LATIN: COMBO CHIMBITA Ire [Anti-]
R&B/SOUL: ROBERT GLASPER Black Radio III [Loma Vista/Concord]
WORLD: LOS BITCHOS Let The Festivities Begin! [City Slang]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC (tie): ACID ARAB Remixes [Crammed Discs]
ELEGIE Elegie [EP] [Self-Released]
IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity [Merge]
FOLK: CHERYL CAWOOD Bullet In The Cabin Wall [Bobbitt]
HEAVY: INCITE Wake Up Dead [Atomic Fire]
HIP HOP: DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyez See Your Future [Loma Vista/Concord]
JAZZ: DIEGO FIGUEIREDO Follow The Signs [Arbors]
WORLD: IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity [Merge]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: SOCCER MOMMY “Shotgun” [Loma Vista/Concord]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD “Magneta Mountain” [KGLW]