NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] The battle for #1 this week was extremely close and stayed that way all throughout the reporting window. In the end, Snocaps started the year just as they ended it, with their debut self-titled album enjoying a fourth week at #1. The gap between them and the #1 album that preceded them from Geese closed even more. And all #1 prognostications are out for next week, with the return of many more reporters, it’s anyone’s call who will top the chart. Watch this space.
2] After grabbing most-added honors on our most recent new chart, French musician Melody Prochet, who records as Melody’s Echo Chamber, sails ahead 55-9 to score her second Top 10-peaking album. Her fourth LP, Unclouded, follows her 2018 sophomore release, Bon Voyage, into the top tier.
3] A whopping nine records find themselves back inside the Top 20 that were not there on our last new charts. The majority of them are albums that previously peaked higher than they are this week, including those by Florence And The Machine, Wet Leg, The Beths, Jeff Tweedy, and Jay Som. Brandi Carlile reaches a new peak weeks after previously hitting her highest point, as does the latest single from Courtney Barnett. This first week back often sees many older records rise due to year-end playlisting.
4] Boston sextet Lettuce landed on the last NACC Adds Chart of 2025 and now enjoys the highest debut of the week on the NACC 200. Formed in 1992 when all of its members attended the Berklee College of Music, the band now calls Denver home. Their ninth album, Cook, jumps aboard the NACC 200 at #23.
5] This week’s most-added artist is Anastasia Coope. The New York-based musician follows up her 2024 debut album, Darning Woman, with an EP called DOT, and gives us our first opportunity to feature in our weekly NACC Chart Recap. She narrowly bests M83 to take ‘most-added’ honors.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
1] The year opens on the NACC Singles Chart with a return to #1. Courtney Barnett spent six weeks at #1 on the chart in 2025 (the second-most weeks of any chart-topper there). Now her song, “Stay In Your Lane,” has risen back from 3-1 for a seventh cumulative week on top.
2] Though it’s not outside the realm of possibility that it’s happened before, we certainly don’t recall a #1-peaking record dropping completely off of a chart and re-entering that same chart later at #1. If it’s never happened before, it has now! Deborah Martin & Jill Haley spent four weeks at #1 in 2025 with the album, Rendering Time. It fell completely off the chart at the end of the year, but now soars back onto NACC Chill at #1, their fifth week at the top.
3] Just three NACC Charts see completely new #1s this week. Aside from four charts that see rebounding chart-toppers, we saw Portugal. The Man rising 5-1 for their first week atop NACC NEXT, Rosalia moves 2-1 at NACC Latin, and an artist that likes all the letters of the alphabet, Haley Heynderickx, along with Max Garcia Conover, rise 4-1 at NACC Folk.
