Alicia Bognanno, who records under the name Bully, is getting her name added to some pretty nice NACC lists of all-time accomplishments this week. Her fourth LP, Lucky For You (Sub Pop), has now spent seven weeks at #1 on the NACC 200. This ties her for the third-longest run ever atop our chart. Only five other albums have spent seven or more weeks at #1 here. With this additional week at #1, she also becomes one of just seven artists to spend 10 or more cumulative weeks at #1 on the NACC 200. As the British slang goes, ‘bully’ indeed. Bognanno faces a host of would be challengers for the top next week including Palehound (3-2) and The Clientele (7-4), as well as our biggest climber into the Top 10 this week who you will learn more about just below.
Three new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week and aforementioned fastest riser among them is the Robert Pollard-led Guided By Voices. The prolific Dayton, OH band is no stranger to the upper echelon of the NACC 200 or the College & Non-Comm Charts in general. A number of their staggering 38 LPs have ventured into these heights over the years, dating back to their inception in 1983. But it’s been a minute since they made it into the Top 5. They are there in a big way this week though, zipping 16-5 with Welshpool Frillies (out on their own GVB Inc. imprint).
Also reaching the Top 10 is Los Angeles five-piece, Grouplove. Three members remain from the original 2009 line-up including co-lead singers Christian Zucconi and Hannah Hooper, and lead guitarist Andrew Wessen. Together they released five albums on Atlantic, before signing with Glassnote for this, their sixth LP, I Want It All Right Now. The album dipped from 14-17 on the NACC 200 last week, but more than makes up for that blip this week, storming ahead 17-7. Also reaching the Top 10 for the first time this week, with a 14-10 climb, is Snooper.
Last week Austin, TX quartet Holy Wave tied Girl Ray for most-added honors. As a mentionable aside, Girl Ray enjoy this week’s biggest climb on the chart, up 186-47. But it’s Holy Wave making the bigger, well, wave racing onto the NACC 200 in an even higher chart position, opening at #28. It’s the highest debut on this week’s chart. Their fourth LP, Five Of Cups (Suicide Squeeze), is named after a tarot card that lead singer Ryan Fuson was struck by during a reading during the pandemic.
Taking the ‘most-added’ crown this week is a band Stereogum have called ‘Swedish rock gods.’ Long known for their epic live shows, The Hives, fronted by their charismatic lead singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, formed in 1993 and found international success with their second album, 2000’s Venice Vidi Vicous, which spawned the hit “Hate To Say I Told You So” and helped bring about a garage rock revival. The band’s latest album (their first in eleven years) has already yielded the #1 NACC Single, “Bogus Operandi.” They recently finished a sold-out European tour with Arctic Monkeys and will be stateside later this year. The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives) is not only this week’s most-added record, but is the second highest debut on the NACC 200, opening at #38, and leaps onto the NACC NEXT Chart at #3.
Mitski Miyawaki, known mononymously as Mitski, spends a second week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart (and a second week inside the Top 20 of the NACC 200) with “Bug Like An Angel.” It’s the lead single from her forthcoming seventh LP, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, due September 15. Collecting enough NACC Adds this week to place inside the overall Top 10 of the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart as the most-added single of the week, is Courtney Barnett (one of the aforementioned artists Bully has tied for the third longest stay ever at #1 on the NACC 200). Her new single is a cover of Chastity Belt’s 2017 song, “Different Now.” The song is part of a 7″ that will also feature Kurt Vile’s take of the band’s “This Time Of Night.”
