Over the first sixteen chart weeks of this year, we’ve already seen eight different #1 records on the NACC 200. This week the ninth chart-topper of 2023 ascends to the penthouse, matching 2020 for the soonest this has happened to this point in the year. And by...
After a five week-in-a-row revolving door at #1 on the NACC 200, New Zealand five-piece Unknown Mortal Orchestra happily puts an end to that streak by spending a second week at #1 with their fifth LP, appropriately titled V (Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group). The roman...
After showcasing one if the longest climbs ever to #1 on the NACC 200 last week, we feature a record this week that ties for the fastest climb to the top. We mentioned last week that there was a possibility of last week’s highest chart debut from Fever Ray...
Rarely has a record been scrappier or more persistent than King Tuff’s Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop). In its ninth week on the chart and sixth week inside the Top 5 (including three straight weeks at #2), the album finally rises to #1 this week, pushing out an...
Rarely do we see a record that didn’t look lined up for a #1 rise the week before suddenly put the gas pedal down and jumping to #1. Which makes this week’s climb so fun. The album that rose to #1 this week was not only holding at #8 last week but was...
The Black Keys vocalist Dan Auerbach is back at #1 on the NACC 200 this week though he’s never been there in this configuration. He’s topped the chart twice before (in 2019 and 2022) with The Black Keys’ ninth LP, ‘Let’s Rock’ and...
