Faye Webster now has the second-longest-running #1 of 2024 as her fifth LP, Underdressed At The Symphony (Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group), spends a third week at #1 on the NACC 200. After the first three weeks of 2024 were taken by male artists at the top of the chart, the subsequent nine weeks have been owned by female artists: Sleater-Kinney (4 weeks), The Last Dinner Party (2 weeks), and now Webster with three. Webster is currently in Florida playing a few tour dates. She then has more than two dozen tour dates lined up all over the country that extend out into October.
Holding firm at #2 on the NACC 200 this week is Philadelphia quartet Mannequin Pussy. They’ve been making music together since 2010 and their fourth LP, I Got Heaven (Epitaph), has now spent the last three weeks at #2. They got tantalizingly close to #1 this week, reducing the gap between themselves and Faye Webster by nearly 80%. And although they don’t quite reach #1 this week, they can certainly take consolation in reaching the top at NACC NEXT, where they climb 2-1. They’ll most certainly mount another run at the NACC 200 penthouse next week.
The highest-charting artist on the NACC 200 that we have not yet had an opportunity to feature in our weekly NACC Chart Recap this year is Atlanta trio Omni. Formed in 2011 by Phillip Frobos, Chris Yonker, and former Deehunter member Frankie Broyles, the band has released four studio albums including their latest, Souvenir (Sub Pop). We featured them here in 2020 when their third album, Networker, made the biggest climb into the NACC Top 10. Now they are back in the region again, rising 8-7 this week.
The eagerly anticipated sixth album from Birmingham, AL native Katie Crutchfield, who records as Waxahatchee, makes a splashy NACC opening this week. Not only does she collect 79 Top 10 Adds, the most for any artist this week, but her sixth album, Tigers Blood (her first on Anti- Records), also leaps aboard the NACC 200 at #16. That’s the highest debut of the week and the third-highest debut of the year so far.
Honorable mention goes to Montreal singer-songwriter Soran. His second LP, Loneliness Confetti, is this week’s biggest climber and the only album to rise more than 100 spots on the chart this week, up 195-87.
This week’s second-highest debut on the NACC 200 comes from Adrianne Lenker. Born in Indiana but raised mainly in Minnesota, Lenker released her debut album at just 14 years old. In addition to releasing six solo releases, including her latest, Bright Future (4AD), Lenker is also the lead singer and principal songwriter for the band Big Thief, where she has another five albums under her belt. Her latest release jumps aboard the NACC 200 at #21 and is a Top 10 Most-Added album this week as well.
Spending a third week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart is “Broken Man,” the first release from St. Vincent‘s seventh album, All Born Screaming, which comes out April 26. Just two of the 44 singles going for adds this week reach the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart. Julia Wolf‘s new single, “In My Room,” narrowly edges out Carter Vail for ‘most-added single’ honors this week.
