After making the third-biggest climb ever to #1 on the NACC 200 last week, Fiona Apple locks down the top spot for a second week with her fifth LP, Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Epic), the very best-reviewed album of the year thus far. The album pulls off a chart-dominating hat trick this week as Apple rises 2-1 on both the NACC NEXT and NACC Non-Comm Charts as well.
Only one new album rises into the NACC Top 10 this week. It comes from Laura Marling, who we profiled here a couple of weeks ago when she was the week’s biggest climber on the chart. The Brit Award winner and Mercury Prize and Grammy Award nominee climbs 11-6 this week with her seventh album, Song For Our Daughter (Chrysalis/Partisan).
The week’s highest debut (and one the Top 5-highest debuts of the year) comes from Car Seat Headrest. Begun as a solo project for Virginia native Will Toledo in 2010, he self-released a dozen albums before signing with Matador/Beggars in 2015. The project expanded to a four-member band the next year. Making A Door Less Open debuts at #18.
Enjoying the fourth biggest climb on the NACC 200 this week is the Los Angeles quintet AWOLNATION. The band’s fourth LP, Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders, soars from 194-41 on the chart this week. Lead singer Aaron Bruno is also a former member of Home Town Hero (200-2004) and Under The Influence Of Giants (2004-2008).
Los Angeles quartet Chicano Batman lands the most-added record of the week with their fourth LP, Invisible People. The band, formed in 2008, bested Man Man by just a single Top 10 Add for the top spot on the NACC Adds Chart this week collecting 63 Top 10 Adds. The album also debuts at #97 on the NACC 200 this week.
Legendary UK-quartet The Rolling Stones debut at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart with “Living In A Ghost Town,” their first new music in four years. Two new singles tie for most-added this week: Bad Suns (“I’m Not Having Any Fun”) and Munya (“Boca Chica”).
The NACC Top 5 overall NACC Adds, this week’s #1 genre releases, and the most-added genre records are included below. We have new #1s at Blues, Hip Hop, Folk, & Latin.
NACC 200 CHART : TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) CHICANO BATMAN Invisible People [ATO] //63//
2) MAN MAN Dream Hunting In The Valley Of The In-Between [Sub Pop] //62//
3) DIET CIG Do You Wonder About Me? [Frenchkiss] //59//
4) AUSTRA HiRUDiN [Domino] //46//
5) X Alphabetland [Fat Possum] //43//
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Epic]
NACC NEXT: FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Epic]
BLUES: ROBERT CRAY BAND That’s What I Hear [Nozzle]
CANADIAN: TOPS I Feel Alive [Musique Tops/House Arrest]
CHILL: THIEVERY CORPORATION Symphonik [ESL]
ELECTRONIC: CARIBOU Suddenly [Merge]
FOLK: ELIZA GILKYSON 2020 [Red House]
HEAVY: TESTAMENT Titans Of Creation [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: RJD2 The Fun Ones [RJ’s Electrical Connections]
JAZZ: ADRIAN YOUNGE & ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD
Jazz Is Dead, Vol. 1 [Jazz Is Dead]
LATIN: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
R&B/SOUL: THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is [Brainfeeder]
WORLD: JAH9 Note To Self [VP]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC (tie): BRONSON “Heart Attack” b/w “Vaults” [Ninja Tune]
OTR Lost At Midnight [Astralwerks]
FOLK: LUCINDA WILLIAMS Good Souls Better Angels [Highway 20/Thirty Tigers]
HEAVY: SOJOURNER Premonitions [Napalm]
HIP HOP: PROF “Squad Goals” (Single) [Rhymesayers]
JAZZ: WAYNE ESCOFFERY The Humble Warrior [Smoke Sessions]
WORLD: CLEA VINCENT Trop-Cléa 2 (EP) [Midnight Special]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: ROLLING STONES, THE “Living In A Ghost Town” [Universal]
#1 ADDED SINGLE (tie): BAD SUNS “I’m Not Having Any Fun” [Epitaph]
MUNYA “Boca Chica” [Luminelle]