This week’s NACC building chart had UK duo Wet Leg sweating it out in their quest for the longest-running #1 album of 2022. In the last six frames, their eponymous debut LP (Domino) dominated the building chart from start to finish. This week they lagged behind other artists until the very last minute. In the end, they held off a hard charge from The Black Keys (4-2) and now claim the yearly #1 crown all to themselves. They also move into a tie with Courtney Barnett for the third-longest #1 ever on the NACC 200.
Two albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. The duo frightening Nannas, Bubbies, and Memaws the world over, Let’s Eat Grandma, rises 11-10. But it’s the Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever who make the biggest climb into the Top 10, up 12-9. Formed in 2013, the band has released three LPs including their latest, Endless Rooms (Sub Pop), and all three have now reached the NACC Top 10.
Chicago stalwarts Wilco are back with their 12th LP, Cruel Country, out on their own dBpm imprint. The band’s career spans nearly 30 years with their previous LP, 2019’s Ode To Joy, spending four weeks at #1 on the NACC 200 in 2019. Their new album simultaneously takes most-added honors collecting 72 Top 10 Adds and scores this week’s highest debut on the NACC 200 at #18.
English trio The Smile makes the deepest inroads into the NACC Top 20 this week, up 22-15 with their debut LP, A Light For Attracting Attention (XL). Although this may be the band’s debut, they are no strangers to music or to the NACC Charts. The Smile is Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood along with Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. The album currently places at #15 on Metacritic’s Best-Reviewed Albums of 2022.
The biggest climb on the NACC 200 this week comes from Rock And Roll Hall of Fame icons Mavis Staples & Levon Helm. Staples is the last surviving member of The Staples Singers and a civil rights activist. She reached #1 on the NACC 200 in 2019. Helm was the drummer and one of the three lead singers for the famed Canadian act The Band as well as a successful actor starring in Coal Miner’s Daughter & The Right Stuff. He passed away in 2011, but not before he and Staples recorded Carry Me Home (Anti-) live in Helm’s barn. The album reaches #1 on the R&B/Soul Chart, debuts on the NACC Folk Chart, and soars 169-29 on the NACC 200 this week.
Bellingham WA five-piece Death Cab For Cutie spends a second week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart with “Roman Candles.” It’s the lead single from their upcoming tenth LP, Asphalt Meadows, due September 16. Santi White, better known as Santigold, is back with a new single. “High Priestess” scored a rare Top 10 overall add and debuts on both the NACC Singles Chart and the NACC 200 this week.
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 is a return to #1 at World as well as new #1s at NACC NEXT, R&B/Soul, Latin, and Blues this week.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) WILCO Cruel Country [dBpm] // 72
2) DEHD Blues Skiles [Fat Possum] // 52
3) JUST MUSTARD Heart Under [Partisan] // 43
4) HOVVDY Billboard For My Feelings (EP) [Grand Jury] // 41
5) STARS From Capelton Hill [Last Gang] // 36
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) WILCO Cruel Country [dBpm] // 18
2) PORRIDGE RADIO Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky [Secretly Canadian/Secretly Groupl] // 37
3) WEIRD NIGHTMARE Weird Nightmare [Sub Pop] // 46
4) CLASH, THE Combat Rock (40th Anniversary) [Legacy] // 61
5) DEHD Blues Skiles [Fat Possum] // 62
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) MAVIS STAPLES AND LEVON HELM Carry Me Home [Anti-] // 140
2) JOHN DOE Fables In A Foreign Land [Fat Possum] // 116
3) KIKAGAKU MOYO Kumoyo Island [Guruguru Brain] // 90
4) GEORGIA HARMER Stay In Touch [Arts And Crafts] // 75
5) JON SPENCER AND THE HITMAKERS Spencer Gets It Lit! [In The Red] // 74
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: SHARON VAN ETTEN We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong [Jagjaguwar]
NACC NEXT: BLACK KEYS, THE Dropout Boogie [Nonesuch]
BLUES: TAJ MAHAL AND RY COODER Get On Board [Nonesuch]
CANADIAN: PIERRE KWENDERS José Louis And The Paradox Of Love [Arts & Crafts]
CHILL: DAVID HELPLING IN [Spotted Peccary]
ELECTRONIC: IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity [Merge]
FOLK: WILLIE NELSON A Beautiful Time [Sony]
HEAVY: JUNGLE ROT Call To Arms [Unique Leader]
HIP HOP: DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyes See Your Future [Loma Vista/Concord]
JAZZ: TROMBONE SHORTY Lifted [Blue Note/UMG]
LATIN: CALEXICO El Mirador [Anti-]
R&B/SOUL: MAVIS STAPLES AND LEVON HELM Carry Me Home [Anti-]
WORLD: IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity [Merge]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: HAAi Baby We’re Ascending [Mute]
FOLK: BART MOORE Graveyards, Wind And War [Blin Acres]
HEAVY (tie): BATTLELORE The Return Of The Shadow [Napalm]
BLEED FROM WITHIN Shrine [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP (tie): J.ROCC “Go!” b/w “Flawless (Smoothed Out)” feat. Budgie (Single) [Stones Throw]
JESHI Universal Credit [Because]
JAZZ: MINAS Beatles In Bossa [Blueazul]
WORLD: MINAS Beatles In Bossa [Blueazul]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Roman Candles” [Atlantic]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: SANTIGOLD “High Priestess” [Little Jerk]