Alicia Bognanno, who records under the name Bully, has been intimidating the rest of the artists on the chart from challenging her for #1 for a while now. Aside from Arlo Parks slipping back to #1 the week of June 20 and the week without charts over the Canada Day/Independence Day holiday, Bully has had #1 on lock for six of the last eight weeks. With Lucky For You‘s sixth week on top, she nabs the longest run at #1 in 2023 and even pads the lead she had last week over PJ Harvey, who holds at #2.
Three new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. The highest of those three new entries, most impressively, is one of just three albums to debut inside the Top 10 of the NACC 200 this year. The album is I Am Not There Anymore (Merge) and comes from The Clientele. Their eighth LP is the first since the band entered their fourth decade and explodes onto the chart this week at #7. Fever Ray (#10) and Arlo Parks (#6) are the only other two artists that debuted inside the Top 10 earlier this year in case you were wondering.
Also reaching the Top 10 and making this week’s biggest climb into the top tier, is Berlin-based South African artist Alice Phoebe Lou. Two weeks ago her fifth studio album, Shelter, scored the highest debut of the week on the NACC 200 at #42. This week the album leaps 27-9 on the chart and scores a fairly rare self-released NACC 200 Top 10 album in the process.
Also reaching the Top 10 this week is English musician Amber Bain, who, since 2012, has recorded as The Japanese House. Her second LP (following six EPs), In The End It Always Does (Dirty Hit), jumps ahead 17-8 on the NACC 200 this week and has given us our first opportunity to feature here here in our weekly NACC Chart Recap. Her new album includes songwriting collaborations with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Charli XCX, Muna, and members of The 1975, among others.
Two artists tie for our most-added record this week, hence the image meld on the albums image above. Collecting 43 Top 10 Adds each is Girl Ray and Holy Wave. London trio Girl Ray last appeared on our recap in late 2019/early 2020 with their album, Girl, scoring a highest debut and biggest climb into the NACC Top 10. Now their third LP, Prestige (Moshi Moshi) brings them back to the NACC Charts, with a NACC 200 debut at #186 as well and an expected big jump next week. Holy Wave is an Austin, TX-based quartet that formed in 2008. This is their inaugural feature in our recap. The band has four LPs under their belt, including their latest, Five Of Cups (Suicide Squeeze), which we expect will make a splashy debut on the NACC 200 next week.
Last week’s most-added single from Mitski Miyawaki, known mononymously as Mitski, wastes no time rising to the top of the NACC Singles Chart. “Bug Like An Angel” soars 11-1 this week and reaches the Top 20 of the NACC 200 as well. It’s the lead single from her forthcoming seventh LP, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, due September 15. Becoming just the 10th single ever to land inside the top 10 of the overall Top 30 Adds Chart is “Evicted,” this week’s most added single, from longtime College and Non-Comm favorites Wilco. Celebrating 30 years as a band in 2024, their 13th album, Cousin, will see a release on September 29. The single is a Top 5 debut this week as well.
