Wasting no time advancing to #1 on the NACC 200 this week is Run The Jewels. The duo of Mike Render (Killer Mike) and Jamie Meline (El-P) formed Run The Jewels in 2013. Four critically acclaimed albums later, RTJ4 (Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG), finishes its quick climb to the top, moving 31-2-1 in the last two weeks. RTJ4 also spends a second week atop the NACC Hip Hop Chart and rises 4-1 at NACC Non-Comm. Aussies Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (4-2) will challenge for #1 next week.
Only one new album reaches the NACC Top 10 this week. It comes from Long Island musician Jeff Rosenstock. Rosenstock got his start in 1995 as the lead singer of The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches and started Bomb The Music Industry! following ASOB’s breakup. A solo career has followed, although he’s also a member of the band Kudrow. NO DREAM (Polyvinyl) is his fourth solo LP and it climbs 11-7 on the NACC 200 this week.
Three albums debut inside the Top 25 of the latest NACC 200. Built To Spill opens at #24, but we focus our features this week on the next two highest debuts. New York-born musician Norah Jones‘ debut album, Come Away With Me, won the Grammy for Album Of The Year in 2003, and is a diamond-selling release. Her sophomore effort, Feels Like Home, is one of only 20 albums ever to debut with first-week sales of 1+ million copies. Her eighth LP, Pick Me Up Off The Floor (Blue Note/Capitol) debuts at #20 this week on the NACC 200.
Edging out Norah Jones for the highest debut of the week is Phoebe Bridgers. Between her solo debut in 2017 and projects with Boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center, Bridgers has been a mainstay on the NACC 200 for the last few years. Her sophomore LP, Punisher (Dead Oceans), is not only this week’s most-added record (with 66 Top 10 Adds) but also flies onto the NACC 200 at #19 this week.
Making the biggest climb on the big chart this week is Josh Ostrander, who records as Mondo Cozmo. The Philadelphia-born musician now calls Los Angeles home. He got his start fronting the band Laguardia from 2000-2005. For the next 10 years, he headed Eastern Conference Champions. His second LP under the Mondo Cozmo moniker is New Medicine (Last Gang) and jumps 172-47 this week.
Lauded musician Elvis Costello sends the second protest song in as many weeks to the top of the NACC Singles Chart. Pushing Bob Mould out of the top spot and rising 3-1 is “No Flag.” Scoring the most Top 10 adds of any single this week is reggae legend Toots And The Maytals, who has been making music for nearly 60 years! “Got To Be Tough” is the first track from the upcoming LP of the same name, due August 28.
The NACC Top 5 overall NACC Adds, this week’s genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new #1s at NACC NEXT, NACC Non-Comm, Heavy, Folk, & Latin as well as a return to #1 at Jazz.
NACC 200 CHART : TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) PHOEBE BRIDGERS Punisher [Dead Oceans] //66//
2) BRAIDS Shadow Offering [Secret City] //54//
3) OWEN The Acalanche [Polyvinyl] //46//
4) NANA GRIZOL South Somewhere Else [Arrowhawk/Don Giovanni] //39//
5) PADDLEFISH Flyer [Aluminum Boy] //36//
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 [Jewel Runners/RBG/BMG]
NACC NEXT: ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
Sideways To New Italy [Sub Pop]
BLUES: CRYSTAL SHAWANDA Church House Blues [True North]
CANADIAN: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
CHILL: LIMINAL DRIFTER Connected [Hidden Shoal]
ELECTRONIC: MOBY All Visible Objects [Mute]
FOLK: JACK BLOUNT Spider Tales [Free Dirt]
HEAVY: BLEED FROM WITHIN Fracture [Century Media]
HIP HOP: RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 [Jewel Runners/RBG/BMG]
JAZZ: KANDACE SPRINGS The Women Who Raised Me [Blue Note]
LATIN: CHICANO BATMAN Invisible People [ATO]
R&B/SOUL: FANTASTIC NEGRITO
Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Advance Tracks) [Cooking Vinyl]
WORLD: BUSCABELLA Regresa [Ribbon]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC FOREVER [New Romantic World]
FOLK: BOB DYLAN Rough And Rowdy Ways [Columbia]
HEAVY: MUSHROOMHEAD A Wonderful Life [Napalm]
HIP HOP: MARLON CRAFT Work From Home (EP) [RCA]
JAZZ: STEVE FIDYK Battle Lines [Blue Canteen]
WORLD: CEU APKA! [Six Degrees]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: ELVIS COSTELLO “No Flag” [Concord]
#1 ADDED SINGLE: TOOTS & THE MAYTALS “Got To Be Tough” [Trojan Jamaica]