NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] Arlo Parks may be losing steam, but no one gave her a serious challenge for the #1 spot on the NACC 200 this week. Her third LP, Ambiguous Desire, logs a fourth straight week at #1 and, in doing so, she collects an impressive 19th cumulative week atop the chart. Only Mitski (the artist she took over the #1 spot from in April, has more with 22). This week, Parks also surpasses her 2023 album, My Soft Machine, for the second-longest-running #1 of her three chart-toppers. It has a whole lot longer to reach the record-breaking 12-week run her debut, Collapsed In Sunbeams, spent atop the NACC 200 in 2021.
2] The rest of the Top 10 is incredibly tight this week, aside from the top tier’s lone new entry from last week’s most-added band, Urbana, IL quartet American Football. The group, which includes cousins Mike and Nate Kinsella, formed in 2014 and has released four self-titled LPs since then. They soar 64-10 to score their second NACC 200 Top 10. They rose 138-10 in 2019 with their previous album.
3] Bellingham, WA five-piece Death Cab For Cutie lands a rare highest-debuting single on the NACC 200 this week. It happened once already this year, but only three times dating back to 2023. The second preview song from their upcoming 11th studio album, I Built You A Tower, is titled “Punching The Flowers,” and it jumps aboard the NACC 200 at #44 this week, just four spots below their “Riptides” single.
4] This week’s biggest climber on the NACC 200 comes from The Claypool Lennon Delirium. Made up of Primus lead singer Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon (former Cibo Matto & Plastic Ono Band member and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono), the band also includes Cake drummer Paulo Baldo and João Nogueira from Stone Giant. Their third LP, the succinctly titled The Great Parrot-Ox And The Golden Egg Of Empathy, soars 198-47 on the chart this week.giving us our first opportunity to feature them on our weekly NACC Chart Recap.
5] Toronto collective Broken Social Scene, which currently boasts 10 members, is back with their sixth LP (and first since 2017) entitled Remember The Humans. They reached #1 on the NACC 200 with two previous releases (2017’s Hug Of Thunder and 2022 B-Sides album, Old Dead Young). This week, they collect 61 Top 10 Adds and debut on the NACC 200 at #136. The band will soon be touring with four other former members, Emily Haines & James Shaw of Metric (who are at #6 on the NACC 200 this week), and Amy Milan and Torquil Campbell of Stars, which should make for some fun collaborations.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS:
1] After six impressive weeks at #1 on NACC Singles, Death Cab For Cutie becomes their own worst enemy in a quest for a seventh week on top. Their new single, “Punching The Flowers,” soars 27-8, cannibalizing play for “Riptides” (which tumbles 1-6 as a result). That opening helps Jack White rise 2-1 in an incredibly close battle with Lucy Dacus (only two points separate her single from his). But as a certain R&B singer once said, “almost doesn’t count.” So Jack White enjoys the top spot with his double single “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs” b/w “Derecho Demonico.”
2] The Grammy-winning trio, I’m With Her, rises 5-1 on NACC Folk this week and scores a rare chart-topping live album with Sing Me Alive. In doing so, they also keep the NACC Folk Chart tied with NACC Non-Comm as the most active NACC charts this year. Both are our only charts with 10 different #1s so far in 2026.
3] Tinariwen now has the title of the longest-running album on the NACC World this year all to themselves. And in doing so, they tie several other artists for the third-longest chart topper on any NACC Chart in 2026. Tinsley Ellis still rules with eight weeks atop NACC Blues. Helene Barbier is second with seven weeks at #1 on NACC Canadian. Tinariwen ties Mavis Staples (R&B/Soul), Juliana Barwick & Mary Lattimore (Chill), Dave Stryker (Jazz), and the twice aforementioned Death Cab For Cutie (Singles) with their six weeks each at #1.
