Three weeks and counting for Ty Segall at #1 on the NACC 200 with his Drag City release, Freedom’s Goblin. And with this chart run, combined with his four week run on top with last year’s self-titled release (his second), Segall has now spent more weeks at #1 on the NACC 200 than any other artist, breaking a tie with St. Vincent. All three of the artists we mentioned last week as possible successors to Segall at #1 stumbled this week, but several other albums move up into contention for next week including Tune-Yards (3-2) and Anna Burch (6-3).
Those are not the only artists lining themselves up for chart-topping glory. Three albums storm the NACC Top 10 this week including MGMT (40-7) and Hovvdy (26-10). But the biggest climb into the Top 10 comes from Palm. We featured them last week when their album, Rock Island, was the week’s most-added record. The Philadelphia quartet formed by Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt in 2012 are wasting no time scaling the chart and certainly look poised at a run for #1 soon.
The NACC 200’s biggest climb this week comes from indie-rock icons Superchunk. Formed in 1989, the Chapel Hill-based band have been courted by the majors but have remained fiercely indie, releasing all of their albums on either Matador or Merge Records. Their 11th release, What A Time To Be Alive, is their first since 2013 and as the name suggests, is a political album. The band’s spring tour got underway last week with West Coast dates this month and East Coast ones in April with a visit to SXSW sandwiched in-between.
The highest debut on the NACC 200 this week is Son Lux. The band’s debut for Berlin-based City Slang Records is their sixth studio LP overall. Son Lux, from 2008-2014, consisted as a one man project for founder Ryan Lott. He was joined by Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang for the band’s previous release, Bones and they continue on as members with this new album, Brighter Wounds, which debuts on the chart at #38 this week.
Scoring 40 more adds than their nearest competitor and landing on top of the NACC Adds Chart this week is Montreal quartet Ought. Their third release, Room Inside The World, is their Merge Records debut and places on 109 station’s Top 10 add charts. The album has already debuted on the NACC 200 this week at #69 so expect a race toward the Top 10 next week.
There is incredible consistency across the board this week with no new #1s. Only the New Age Chart features a return to the top for a former chart-topper.
NACC 200 Chart: Top 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) OUGHT Room Inside The Room [Merge] //109//
2) SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Onion [Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch] //69//
3) RHYE Blood [Loma Vista] //67//
4*) BELLE AND SEBASTIAN How To Solve Our Human Problems [Matador] //63//
4*) RIDE Tomorrow’s Shore (EP) [Wichita] //63//
* denotes tie