Good Morning!
Your NACC Chart Recap is here.
We hope you enjoyed your week off for Canada Day & Independence Day! We made the most of the downtime, freshening and revamping our website. We’ve introduced a new Community section that will not only house all of our MD of the Month features, but we’ve expanded that to include the industry-at-large with our new Promoter Profile feature too. And we’re thrilled about the launch of seven new genre charts this week! Non-Comm (a more targeted chart that highlights the community stations on our panel), NACC Next (a sort of ‘heatseeker’ chart of old that aims to predict what will move on to success at the Commercial Alternative formats), Electronic, Heavy (our Loud Rock/Metal Chart), Hip Hop, Jazz
& World. And we don’t plan to stop there. Next up, we plan to launch Classical, Latin and Folk Charts! We hope you’ll peruse the NACC website and enjoy all the new features!
The new charts are available to paid subscribers. Learn more at naccchart.com/subscribe.
And now on to our recap of the NACC Charts this week:
When these foxes said they were fleet they weren’t lying. I know… lame… cue groans. It’s a massive jump to #1, and possible dreams of chart glory squashed for others in the process, as Fleet Foxes leapfrog some worthy #1 contenders and soar 10-1 on the new NACC 200. The band joined Depeche Mode and The Avalanches to cap off the three-day NOS Alive 2017 Festival in Lisbon last weekend and will be taking the stage at Outside Lands and Austin City Limits later this summer.
Soaring onto the NACC 200 this week is the eagerly awaited return of Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. His third LP, and first for Stones Throw, scored a rare Top 10 debut at #10. Fun fact: Washed Out’s “Feel It All Around” is the theme song for beloved IFC comedy, Portlandia. Kudos to Co-Sign for the lofty debut.
Enjoying the biggest jump into the Top 10 this week is King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. No strangers to the Top 10, the band reached #1 on the NACC 200 back in March with Flying Microtonal Banana. Their new, and slightly more ominously titled, Murder Of The Universe, leaps from 60-8 to make the band the first this year to climb into the Top 10 of the chart twice.
Taking honors for the single biggest jump on the entire NACC 200 this week is Winnipeg’s Mise en Scene. The band name is a french expression that directly translates to ‘placing on stage’ and alludes to the visual theme or telling of a story when it comes to theatre or film production. Oh sorry, we’re getting away from a fun music recap and dangerously close to learning here. I digress. Still Life On Fire is the band’s second LP (and first for Vancouver label Light Organ) and skyrockets from 182-39 this week. Congrats to Vitriol for the impressive jump.
Our final album showcase this week belongs to Waxahatchee, a band started by Katie Crutchfield in 2010 and named after the Waxahatchee River in her home state of Alabama. Out In The Storm (on Merge Records) is the fourth release from the band who are currently on tour across the US to promote their new album. If you are in Philadelphia, New York or Cleveland, you can catch the band live this week.
** NACC 200 Chart: Top 5 ADDS
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# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1] WAXAHATCHEE Out In The Storm [Merge] //81//
2] TORO Y MOI Boo Boo [Carpark] //71//
3] SHABAZZ PALACES Quazars: Born On A Gangster Star/Quazarz: The Jealous Machines [Sup Pop] //62//
4] RATBOYS GN [Topshelf] //60//
5] GREAT GRANDPA Plastic Cough [Double Double Whammy] //52//
#1 On NACC Genre Charts:
GENRE | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL
NON-COMM: DAN AUERBACH Waiting On A Song [Easy Eye Sound]
NACC NEXT: PORTUGAL. THE MAN Woodstock [Atlantic]
ELECTRONIC: COM TRUISE Iteration [Ghostly International]
HEAVY: ICED EARTH Incorruptible [Metal Blade]
HIP HOP: BROTHER ALI All The Beauty In This Whole Life [Rhymesayers]
JAZZ: JACK DEJOHNETTE, LARRY GRENADIER, JOHN MEDESKI, JOHN SCOFIELD Hudson [Motema]
WORLD: OMAR SOULEYMAN To Syria, With Love [Mad Decent]