NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] There was very nearly a new #1 on the NACC 200 this week. For most of the reporting period, a different album than the one that has held #1 for the past month sat in the top spot. But when the dust settled, England’s Dry Cleaning surged at the last moment and hung on for a fifth week at #1 with their third studio album, Secret Love. In doing so, the chart has seen three albums in a row spend 5+ weeks at #1 (following Snocaps and Geese). This has never happened on the NACC 200 before.
2] The album that just about disrupted this new NACC record is very much worth a mention on our Weekly NACC Chart Recap again this week. After taking ‘most-added’ honors and scoring the highest debut on the NACC 200 last week at #24, Chicago quartet Ratboys soars to #2 with their sixth LP, Singin’ To An Empty Chair. Their move is the biggest into the Top 10 this week and certainly gives them a very strong chance of topping the chart next week. Only 20 points currently separate Dry Cleaning and Ratboys. Also reaching the Top 10 this week are The Sha La Das (up 11-6), Jane Remover (up 15-7). and Yumi Zouma (up 32-10).
3] This week’s highest NACC 200 debut comes from the band Mandy, Indiana. Formed in 2016 and splitting time between Manchester and Berlin, the band had originally intended to be called Gary, Indiana (by the way, there is no city in Indiana called Mandy), but liked the sound of the name they settled on even more. Their sophomore album, Urgh, debuts at #19 on the big chart this week and leaps to #4 on the NACC Electronic Chart, up from 17.
4] Enjoying the NACC 200’s biggest climb this week is Canadian quartet Metric. Formed in Toronto in 1998 by Emily Haines and James Shaw, the band will be releasing their 10th LP, Romanticize The Dive, on April 24th. The lead single from that album, “Victim Of Luck,” was the most-added single last week (and #6 overall add) and leaps ahead 152-42 on the NACC 200. It’s the chart’s only double-digit climb this week. They also rose into the Top 10 of the NACC Singles Chart.
5] This week’s most-added album comes from Remember Sports. Though we didn’t know there was an issue with people forgetting sports, we’re glad this quartet is here to help us all not to forget. Formed in Gambier, OH, in 2012 while its members were attending Kenyon College (shout out to WKCO!), the band (originally just called Sports) now resides in Philadelphia. Their fifth album, The Refrigerator, collects 64 Top 10 Adds this week, which bodes well for a splashy NACC 200 debut next week.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS:
1] Not many 86 year-olds would probably be described as scrappy but the term is apt for living legend Mavis Staples. This week as her fourteenth solo release, Sad And Beautiful World, shows plenty of pluck and rises back to #1 on both the NACC Folk and R&B/Soul Chart. Our one other rebound to #1 this week comes at NACC Non-Comm with Lucinda Williams bouncing back up 2-1 for a second week on top.
2] The early 2026 crown for the longest-running #1 on any NACC Chart now solely belongs to Hélène Barbier. Her album, Panorama, has now spent six of the seven chart weeks this year on top of the NACC Canadian Chart. That’s already one week longer than the longest stay at #1 in 2025 on that chart.
3] Our tracking of when every one of our 15 charts sees its first new #1 of 2026 is complete this week, with our last holdout, NACC World, joining the rest of our charts with a new leader. Interestingly,, it’s with an album that has been in the Top 10 of the World Chart since November. Rosalia‘s Lux album has spent its entire run in the Top 10 since it debuted on November 18. Now, all these months later, she rises 3-1.
