Chicago sextet Wilco quickly vaults to #1 in their third week on the chart and grabs their second straight NACC 200-topping album with their 12th LP, Cruel Country (dBpm). It’s the band’s first album where all six members were together in their recording studio, The Loft, since 2011’s The Whole Love. Most notably, this 3-1 rise to the top gives lead singer Jeff Tweedy his fourth NACC 200 #1 album (when his two solo chart-topping albums are included). No other artist has enjoyed four #1 albums on the NACC 200.
Three new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. A featured band here last week, Dehd, zips 12-5. Also making a strong rise into the Top 5 is a recent most-added honoree, Cola. The Montreal punk trio is back in our chart recap for leaping 11-4 on the NACC 200 with their debut studio album, Deep In View (Fire Talk). The project teams up members of the now-defunct group Ought with the drummer from U.S. Girls.
Making the biggest climb into the NACC Top 10 this week is Angel Olsen. The St. Louis-born, Asheville-residing musician has been making music since 2009 and has released six LPs including her latest, Big Time (Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group). The album leaps 53-10 and is now 43 spots closer to delivering Olsen her second #1 on the NACC 200. She reached the top in 2019 with her fourth LP, All Mirrors.
Athens, GA five-piece and longtime College and Community favorite (dating back to 1996), Drive-By Truckers, lands the highest debut of the week on the NACC 200 with their fourteenth LP, Welcome 2 Club XIII (ATO). The band’s latest effort soars onto the NACC 200 at #25. The album’s title references a club where the band first played near Muscle Shoals, AL, where two of the band’s members are originally from.
This week’s most-added album comes from the Los Angeles quartet The Dream Syndicate. The band’s run is broken into two distinct periods (1981-89 and 2012-present) with four albums released in each period. The Dream Syndicate’s eighth LP, Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions (Fire) collects 43 Top 10 Adds this week.
Last week’s most-added single from NYC trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs jumps 5-1 on NACC Singles this week. “Spitting Off The Edge Of The World” features Perfume Genius and is the first preview of their forthcoming fifth LP, Cool It Down, due September 30. This week’s most-added single comes from beloved Elephant Six Collective members Elf Power. “Soft Trash” is another preview of the Athens, GA band’s upcoming 14th LP, Artificial Countrysides, out July 15.
This week’s Top 5 overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are returns to #1 at NACC NEXT, World and Chill as well as new #1s at NACC Non-Comm, NACC Canadian, Hip Hop, Heavy, Latin, and Folk this week.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) DREAM SYNDICATE, THE Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions [Fire] // 43
2) JOYCE MANOR 40 Oz. To Fresno [Epitaph] // 40
3) STELLA Up And Away [Sub Pop] // 39
4) GRACE IVES Janky Star [True Panther] // 34
5*) FASHION CLUB Scrutiny [Felte] // 25
5*) URAL THOMAS AND THE PAIN Dancing Dimensions [Bella Union/PIAS] // 25
* denotes a tie
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Welcome 2 Club XIII [ATO] // 25
2) PHOENIX “Alpha Zulu” (Single) [Glassnote] // 69
3) POLICA Madness [Memphis Industries] // 77
4) FRIGHTNRS, THE Always [Daptone] // 78
5) PI JA MA Seule Sous Ma Frange [Bleepmachine] // 86
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) LETTUCE Unify [Round Hill] // 142
2) ADRIAN QUESADA Boleros Psicodélicos [ATO] // 100
3) JUNGLE “Good Times” b/w “Problems” (Single) [Caiola/AWAL] // 97
4) SYLVAN ESSO “Sunburn” (Single) [Loma Vista/Concord] // 91
5) PHF Purest Hell [Danger Collective] // 90
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: BLACK KEYS, THE Dropout Boogie [Nonesuch]
NACC NEXT: BLACK KEYS, THE Dropout Boogie [Nonesuch]
BLUES: CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE Mississippi Sun [Alligator]
CANADIAN: COLA Deep In View [Fire Talk]
CHILL: DAVID HELPING IN [Spotted Peccary]
ELECTRONIC: HAAI Baby, We’re Ascending [Mute]
FOLK: MARY GAUTHIER Dark Enough To See The Stars [In The Black/Thirty Tigers]
HEAVY: KREATOR Hate Uber Allles [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: KENDRICK LAMAR Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers [pgLang/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope]
JAZZ: TROMBONE SHORTY Lifted [Blue Note/UMG]
LATIN: JOSE CONDE Soul’s Alive In The 305 [PiPiki]
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: RANGE, THE Mercury [Domino]
FOLK: COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS “Satellite” (Single) [Fat Possum]
HEAVY: CIVIL WAR Invaders [Napalm]
HIP HOP (tie): 070 SHAKE You Can’t Kill Me [G.O.O.D./Def Jam]
DANGER MOUSE AND BLACK THOUGHT
“Because” feat. Joey Bada$$, Russ, & Dylan Cartlidge [BMG]
JAZZ: BRIAN GRACE Long Beach [Self-Reeased]
WORLD: PUNKU Punku [Six Degrees]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: YEAH YEAH YEAHS “Spitting Off The Edge Of The World”
feat. Perfume Genius [Secretly Canadian]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: ELF POWER “Soft Trash” [Yep Roc]