Canadian five-piece Alvvays continues their complete dominance on the NACC 200 this week. Their third studio album, Blue Rev (Polyvinyl), has now spent three weeks atop the chart and extends the record-breaking lead they enjoyed last week over the #2 record for all of 2022 by an even wider margin. The album also collects the highest overall one-week tally that any album has achieved this year. In fact, over the past three years, this is the second-highest total for a #1 record only bested by Arlo Parks, who holds the record for the biggest #1 the NACC 200 has ever seen. Blue Rev tops NACC Next and NACC Canadian again as well.
Three new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week along with one rebound. Pixies climb back into the Top 10 and reach a new peak, up 11-9. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard rises 15-8 and last week’s highest debut from Arctic Monkeys zips 16-6. But it’s New York City band Frankie Cosmos who enjoys this week’s biggest climb into the top tier. Musician Greta Kline, daughter of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, began recording as Frankie Cosmos in 2011. Eventually, the name was used to represent her band. The fifth Frankie Cosmos LP, Inner World Peace (Sub Pop), soars from 56-10.
The NACC 200’s biggest climber this week comes from South London quartet Dry Cleaning. The lovers of a crisp, starched shirt formed in 2018 and have now released two studio albums, including their latest, Stumpwork (4AD/Beggars Group). The album explodes from 115-25 on the chart this week and is on the hunt to give the band their second NACC Top 10 album. They reached the Top 10 (as the week’s biggest climber up to that region) in 2021 with their debut LP, New Long Leg.
Baltimore trio Pinkshift is making waves with their debut LP, Love Me Forever. It’s their first release on Hopeless Records after they first came on the scene with an EP in 2021 called Saccharine. The band was initially just supposed to be a passing thing for two would-be med students and another seeking a career in engineering. Given the reception they are receiving, including this week’s highest debut on the NACC 200 at #33, those plans have certainly been placed on hold.
Fronted by musician Michael Collins, LA band Drugdealer has returned with a third studio album entitled Hiding In Plain Sight (Mexican Summer). Following up their 2019 NACC Top 10-peaking second release Raw Honey, the album collects more Top 10 Adds than any other release this week (and also enjoys a Top 5 highest debut on the NACC 200). The album almost never happened. After relying quite heavily on featured vocals from other artists (as he felt unsure of his own voice), Collins found the confidence to take on more of a lead role after inspirational words from pioneering composer Annette Peacock
LCD Soundsystem is back at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week after a week away from the top spot with “New Body Rhumba,” recorded for the film White Noise. Their first new song in five years has now spent three non-consecutive weeks at #1. The most-added single of the week (and the only one to make the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart), comes from Kyle Thomas, who records as King Tuff. “Smalltown Stardust” is the title track from his upcoming sixth LP, due out January 27.
The current NACC 200 Top 20, the Top 5 overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. In addition to returns to #1 at NACC Non-Comm and Folk, there are new #1s at Hip Hop, Heavy, Electronic, Chill, and Latin.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) DRUGDEALER Hiding In Plain Sight [Mexican Summer] // 52
2) GIRLPUPPY When I’m Alone [Royal Mountain] // 49
3) SOBS Air Guitar [Topshelf] // 43
4) LEE FIELDS Sentimental Fool [Daptone] // 39
5) BABEHOVEN Light Moving Time [Double Double Whammy] // 38
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) PINKSHIFT Love Me Forever [Hopeless] // 33
2) BIBIO BIB10 [Warp] // 49
3) ARCHERS OF LOAF Reason In Decline [Merge] // 55
4) ZZZAHARA Liminal Spaces [Lex] // 66
5) DRUGDEALER Hiding In Plain Sight [Mexican Summer] // 75
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) DRY CLEANING Rolling Golden Holy [4AD/Beggars Group] // 90
2) OSEES A Foul Form [Castle Face] // 75
3) TEGAN AND SARA Crybaby [Mom+Pop] // 74
4) ETHEL CAIN Preachers’s Daughter [Daughters Of Cain] // 70
5) VARIOUS ARTISTS Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen [Blue Note] // 65
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: YEAH YEAH YEAHS Cool It Down [Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group]
NACC NEXT: ALVVAYS Blue Rev [Polyvinyl]
BLUES: BUDDY GUY The Blues Don’t Lie [RCA]
CANADIAN: ALVVAYS Blue Rev [Polyvinyl]
CHILL: BRIAN ENO FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE [Opal/Universal]
ELECTRONIC: SHYGIRL Nymph [Because]
FOLK: JAKE BLOUNT The New Faith [Smithsonian Folkways]
HEAVY: LAMB OF GOD Omens [Epic]
HIP HOP: SOL MESSIAH GOD CMPLX [Rhymesayers]
JAZZ: BOBBY WATSON Back Home In Kansas City [Smoke Sessions]
LATIN: RICARDO BACELAR Congenito [Jasmin]
R&B/SOUL: SUDAN ARCHIVES Natural Brown Prom Queen [Stones Throw]
WORLD: VIEUX FARKA TOURE AND KHRUANGBIN Ali [Dead Oceans/Secretly Canadian]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: O’FLYNN AND FRAZER RAY Shimmer [Technicolour]
FOLK: CHRIS BULLINGER True Rendition [Tweedle]
HEAVY: OFFERING, THE Seeing The Elephant [Century Media]
HIP HOP: CAKES DA KILLA Svengali [Young Art]
JAZZ (tie): ERICH CAWALLAH Great American. Songbook [Boom! Camp]
JONATHAN MILLS No Mentions, No Worries [Self-Released]
KIRK LIGHTSEY Live At Smalls Jazz Club [Cellar]
WORLD: HERMANOS GUTIERREZ El Bueno Y El Malo [Easy Eye Sound/Concord]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM “New Body Rhumba” [Columbia/Sony]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: KING TUFF “Small-town Stardust” [Sub Pop]
