Annie Clark, better known musically as St. Vincent, locks down a third week at #1 with her sixth LP, Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista/Concord). Though her point total is just a bit smaller than last week, she still holds a massive lead with twice the points of the #2 album. She is one week away from becoming only the third artist to reach double-digit weeks at #1 on the NACC 200. She’d join Arlo Parks (12 weeks) and Jeff Tweedy (10 weeks combining his solo efforts and Wilco chart-toppers). Clark also spends a fourth week at #1 on NACC NEXT and a third on NACC Non-Comm.
Three new albums reach the NACC 200’s Top 10, all making strong jumps into the top tier. CHAI jumps 14-2 and LA band Lord Huron races 18-5. But, by far, the biggest climb into the Top 10 comes from Bachelor. Doomin’ Sun (Polyvinyl) comes from successful NACC Chart artists in their own right (Jay Som and Palehound lead singer Ellen Kempner), was last week’s most-added LP and leaps 57-8 this week.
Simultaneously landing the highest debut of the week and the most-added new album, Japanese Breakfast are back with their eagerly awaited LP, Jubilee (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group). Lead singer Michelle Zauner was born in Seoul, Korea but grew up in Eugene, OR from the age of nine months. She began Japanese Breakfast in 2013. The band’s third LP, and first since 2017, leaps aboard the NACC 200 this week at #14 and immediately leaps onto our ‘future #1’ radar.
Lou Barlow wastes no time releasing his own album after just recently reaching #1 with his band Dinosaur Jr., where he plays bass. The Massachusetts musician, who also stays busy as the lead singer of Sebadoh, is back with his first solo effort since 2015. Reason To Live (Joyful Noise) is this week’s biggest climber on the NACC 200, up 173-28.
As we mentioned earlier, the Japanese quartet CHAI makes an impressive 14-2 climb into the NACC 200 with their third LP, Wink, the group’s first for Sub Pop. Formed in 2012 in Nagoya, Japan by twin sisters Mana and Kana and their high school friend Yuna, Yuuki joined the group when she became friends with Mana at university. As you may have surmised, the members of the band go by their first names only.
“We Are Between” from Modest Mouse spends a fourth week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart. It’s the lead single from their seventh LP, The Golden Casket, due June 25. British electronic duo Jungle scores this week’s most-added single with “Talk About It,” the third preview track from their forthcoming third LP, Loving In Stereo, due August 13.
The 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 chart-toppers at Blues, Jazz, Chill, and Folk this week.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) JAPANESE BREAKFAST Jubilee [Dead Oceans/Secretly Groupl] // 54
2) ISLANDS Islomania [Royal Mountain] // 47
3*) ROSTAM Changephobia [Matsor Projects/Secretly] // 41
3*) WALLICE Off The Rails (EP) [Self-Released] // 41
5) MNDSGN Rare Pleasure [Stones Throw] // 35
* denotes a tie
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) JAPANESE BREAKFAST Jubilee [Dead Oceans/Secretly Group] // 14
2) LUCY DACUS “Hot And Heavy” (Single) [Matador/Beggars] // 39
3) WOMBO Keesh Mountain (EP) [Fire Talk] // 42
4) ROSTAM Changephobia [Matsor Projects/Secretly] // 46
5) TRISTAN Aquatic Flowers [Mama Bird] // 51
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) LOU BARLOW Reason To Live [Joyful Noise] // 145
2) ROBERT FINLEY Sharecropper’s Son [Easy Eye Sound/Concord] // 118
3) ALEX CUBA Mendo [Caracol] // 105
4) NIGHT BEATS Outlaw R&B [Fuzz Club] // 99
5) ALICE PHOEBE LOU Glow [Self-Released] // 65
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: ST. VINCENT Daddy’s Home [Loma Vista/Concord]
NACC NEXT: ST. VINCENT Daddy’s Home [Loma Vista/Concord]
BLUES: CLARENCE SPADY Surrender [Nola Blue]
CANADIAN: TEKE::TEKE Shirushi [Kill Rock Stars]
CHILL: ULRICH SCHNAUSS AND JONAS MUNK Eight Fragments Of An Illiusion [Azure Vista]
ELECTRONIC: FLYING LOTUS Yasuke [Warp]
FOLK: ALLISON RUSSELL Outside Child [Fantasy/Concord]
HEAVY: GOJIRA Fortitude [Roadrunner]
HIP HOP: CADENCE WEAPON Parallel World [eOne]
JAZZ: VINCENT HERRING Preaching To The Choir [Smoke Sessions]
LATIN: MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND Distrito Federal [Soy Sauce]
R&B/SOUL: DURAND JONES AND INDICATIONS “Witch” (Single) [Dead Oceans]
WORLD: JUPITER AND OKWESS Na Kozonga [Everloving]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: AVALANCHES, THE Since I Left You (20th Anniversary Deluxe) [Astralwerks]
FOLK: ERIC SELBY Where You Born At [Soul Stew]
HEAVY: CRYPTA Echoes Of The Soul [Napalm]
HIP HOP: Three Artists Tied For #1 Most-Added
JAZZ: SLIDE ATTACK Road Trip [SACD]
WORLD: JUANA MOLINA Segundo (Remastered) [Crammed]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: MODEST MOUSE “We Are Between” [Epic]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: JUNGLE “Talk About It” [Caiola/AWAL]