NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] Although Wet Leg is slowing down a bit, their grip on the NACC 200’s #1 spot remains firmly in grasp again this week. Their sixth week at #1 with moisturizer does achieve some noteworthy accomplishments. They tie Japanese Breakfast for the longest run atop the NACC 200 this year. They move into a tie with Alvvays for the 5th most weeks ever spent at the top of the chart, with 13. And they become the very first act to have two albums spend six or more weeks at #1 on the NACC 200. Only 10 other albums have enjoyed that much time on top, with no other act having multiple. Their seven weeks atop NACC NEXT is three more than anyone else has spent in 2025. And their seventh week atop NACC Non-Comm gives them the longevity record on that chart all to themselves for the first time. They do relinquish their hold on the #1 spot at NACC Canadian.
2] Making the biggest climb into the NACC Top 10 this week is Hayden Anhedöniam, who records as Ethel Cain. In climbing 23-8 with Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, she enjoys her second Top 10-peaking album just this year. Perverts gave Cain her first top 10 back in January. Also reaching the Top 10 this week are Osees (up 11-7 with their 6th NACC 200 Top 10) and Wombo (up 12-10 with their first Top 10).
3] We first featured Tallahassee, FL quartet Pool Kids here when their 2022 self-titled album scored the highest debut of the week. This week, their third album, Easier Said Than Done, enjoys this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200, soaring from 193-29.
4] Enjoying this week’s highest debut is last week’s most-added album from Boston’s Pile. Their ninth studio album, Sunshine And Balance Beams, leaped on the NACC 200 at #18, giving them one of the Top 10 highest debuts on the chart this year.
5] Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV has done us all a favor and records simply as Mac Demarco. And he’s had plenty of success doing it. He topped the NACC 200 in 2017 with his third album, This Old Dog, and his sixth LP, Guitar, becomes his send to score ‘most-added album’ honors, collecting 53 Top 10 Adds. The album also debuts at #57 on his week’s the NACC 200.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
– Grammy, Tony, and Oscar winner and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee, David Byrne is back at #1 on NACC Singles this week, up 5-1. His 19th overall album (including his output with Talking Heads, collaborative albums, and his solo work) is due out September 5. Lead single “Everybody Laughs” featuring Ghost Train Orchestra, rises back to #1 after eight weeks away (having first topped the chart in June).
– The Blues Chart continues to be the stickiest of NACC’s charts this year. With Buddy Guy spending a third week at #1 this week with Ain’t Done With The Blues, all of the #1s on this chart in 2025 have spent three or more weeks on top, a feat no other NACC Chart this year comes close to boasting. And there have only been five total Blues #1s, the least of any chart this year. Aside from NACC Non-Comm (with 8 #1s this year so far), all other NACC Charts have had 10 or more #1s.
– After seven non-consecutive weeks at #2 on the NACC Chill Chart (a run that began back in May), DJ and producer sunflwr (the recording name of Lucas Hanson) finally rises to #1 on the chart with second studio album, heard it in a dream, up 2-1.
