Last year it wasn’t till May before we’d had three different artists reach #1 on the NACC 200. This year it’s happened before January has even come to an end. Three weeks of charts… three different #1 albums. Canadian singer/songwriter Julie Doiron topples Fleet Foxes this week, rising 4-1 with her ninth solo LP, I Thought Of You (You’ve Changed). It’s her first solo LP in nearly a decade and it’s certainly been welcomed with open arms. Doiron has been #1 on the NACC Canadian Chart the last five chart weeks dating back to the album’s #1 debut there in early December.
The top of the NACC 200 sees some massive turnover this week. As is often the case this time of year, stations turn the page on the previous 12 months and begin to focus on the new calendar’s releases. We see four new albums reach the NACC Top 20 this week and all of them soar straight into the Top 10 at #7 or higher.
Longtime College and Community favorite Chan Marshall, who records as Cat Power, makes the biggest climb into the NACC Top 10 this week soaring 69-4 (one of the Top 5 overall climbers this week). Covers (Domino) is Cat Power’s 11th studio album and third collection of cover songs. The album sees her take on songs from artists like Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Lana Del Rey, Frank Ocean, and Bob Seger, among others.
Also reaching the Top 10 in grand fashion is Elvis Costello & The Imposters. The Boy Named If (Capitol) is Costello’s 32nd studio album dating back to his debut 1977 effort, My Aim Is True. The beloved London native was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2003 and in 2004, was included on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Artists Of All Time rankings. Costello and friends race from 43-3 on the NACC 200 this week.
In addition to Cat Power and Elvis Costello & The Imposters, two other acts reach the Top 10 this week: Broken Social Scene exploded 60-2 with an album we featured here last week as the most-added of the week. And Bonobo jumps 37-6 with a new LP that newly tops both our NACC Electronic and Chill Charts this week.
The NACC 200’s highest debut comes from Tahliah Barnett, who you may know better as FKA Twigs. The English singer and actress debuts at #23 with her third LP, CAPRISONGS (Young/Atlantic), while also landing at #2 on the NACC Adds Chart this week. It’s been 10 years since her musical debut EP1 was released.
As mentioned, one act did best FKA Twigs for most-added honors this week. Yard Act ended up nabbing three more Top 10 Adds to place at #1. Originating in 2019 in Leeds, the quartet collect 63 Top 10 adds with their debut release, The Overload (Zen F.C.). The band has been much buzzed about already as “one to watch” in BBC’s Sound of 2022 shortlist.
Austin, TX-based Spoon landed an incredible and unprecedented ninth week at #1 with “The Hardest Cut,” the lead single from their upcoming 10th LP, Lucifer On The Sofa, due February 11. Brooklyn quartet Big Thief has this week’s most-added single with an eighth preview track (“Simulation Swarm”) from their upcoming Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, due February 11.
This week’s NACC 200 Top 20, the 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, Electronic, and Chill as well as a return to #1 on Jazz.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) YARD ACT The Overload [Zen F.C.] // 63
2) FKA TWIGS CAPRISONGS [Young/Atlantic] // 60
3) PEDRO THE LION Havasu [Polyvinyl] // 52
4) REPTILIENS Multiverse [Sinderlyn] // 50
5) CLOAKROOM Dissolution Wave [Relapse] // 49
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) FKA TWIGS CAPRISONGS [Young/Atlantic] // 23
2) EARL SWEATSHIRT SICK! [Tan Cressida/Warner] // 43
3) SUN JUNE Somewhere (Expanded) [Run For Cover] // 49
4) DARKSOFT Cryo [Look Upl] // 54
5) SHAM FAMILY Sham Family (EP) [Wavy Haze] // 65
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) FONTAINES D.C. “Jackie Down The Line” (Single) [Partisan] // 165
2) WOMBATS, THE Fix Yourself, Not The World [AWAL] // 113
3) ADA LEA one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden [Saddle Creek] // 96
4) BAND OF HORSES “Crutch” (Single) [BMG] // 79
5) CAT POWER Covers [Domino] // 65
#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: BONOBO Fragments [Ninja Tune]
ELECTRONIC: BONOBO Fragments [Ninja Tune]
FOLK: ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS Raise The Roof [Rounder/Concord]
HEAVY: FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY On What The Future Holds [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: HAVIAH MIGHTY Stock Exchange [Self-Released]
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: CEU Um Gosto De Sol [Urban Jungle]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: LANE 8 Reviver [This Never Happened]
FOLK: HEATHER SARONA Head Above Water [Self-Released]
HEAVY: GENERATION KILL MKUltra [Blood Blast]
HIP HOP: FKA TWIGS CAPRISONGS [Young/Atlantic]
JAZZ: IMMANUEL WILKINS The 7th Hand [Blue Note]
WORLD: DIDON Beside You [Electrofone]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: SPOON “The Hardest Cut” [Matador]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: BIG THIEF “Simulation Swarm” [4AD/Beggars Group]