NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] After missing the top spot by a quarter of a point last week (the smallest gap ever between the #1 and #2 records on the NACC 200), the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Hannah Harding, who records as Aldous Harding, rises triumphantly to #1 for the first time with her fifth album, Train On The Island. She climbs 2-1 and leads the next album on our chart by nearly 300 points. She has the highest point total for a NACC 200 #1 since May 5 and reaches #1 on NACC Non-Comm as well.
2] Four albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. It’s just the third time this year that that many records have reached the top tier together and the first time since March 3. Making the biggest move into the Top 10 is Scottish act Boards Of Canada. Formed in 1986 by Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin, the duo last released an album in 2013. Their fifth LP, Inferno, leaps 48-9, which gives us our first opportunity ever to feature them on our Weekly NACC Chart Recap. They also soar 18-2 on NACC Electronic.
3] The other three albums reaching the top tier includes last week’s top add from Philly native Kurt Vile, who jumps 32-5 to score his fifth NACC Top 10 with Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me, Feeble Little Horse (another Pennsylvania act) who rises 38-6 with their third album, Bitknot (and score their second NACC Top 10-peaking album), and Seattle five-piece Telehealth, who climbs 11-8 with their sophomore LP, Green World Image.
4] We don’t usually feature biggest climbers below the Top 50, but we wanted to tip our cap to icon and legend Sir Paul McCartney, who jumps 186-70 with his twelfth solo album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane. He is a two-time Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (both solo & with The Beatles), won 19 Grammy Awards, co-wrote more Billboard Hot 100 #1s than anyone in history (32), and is one of only three artists to sell 100+ million albums as a solo artist and separately as the primary member of a band. The others are Michael Jackson & Phil Collins. Quite a career!
5] Bellingham, WA-formed Death Cab For Cutie have been indie darlings for nearly 30 years. The band formed in 1997 and have released eleven studio albums over their career. Their latest, I Built You A Tower, has been hotly anticipated. The lead single, “Riptides,” spent a year-best eight weeks at #1 on NACC Singles. This week they collect 73 Top 10 Adds and leap aboard the NACC 200 at #13, the highest debut of the week.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS:
1] Lucy Dacus has spent six weeks inside the Top 5 of the NACC Singles Chart with her song “Planting Tomatoes.” Her first single since last year’s Forever Is A Feeling album got breathlessly close to #1 back on May 12 when she missed the top spot by just two points. She righted that personal wrong this week, jumping 5-1 and leapfrogging over Jack White, who prevented her from getting to #1 last month.
2] Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan, who record as I’m With Her, match Emily Scott Robinson this week for the most weeks atop NACC Folk this year. Robinson spent five weeks at #1 earlier this year with her album Appalachia. This week, I’m With Her spends a fifth week on top with their live album, Sing Me Alive.
3] The NACC Non-Comm Chart matches NACC Blues this week as the two NACC Charts that are closest to matching the full year total of #1s that 2025 produced. This chart is even more impressive than NACC Blues, with just five #1s (six artists reached #1 in 2025) so far. There have already been 13 #1s at NACC Non-Comm this year as Aldous Harding reaches the top there this week. So it’s especially noteworthy that we have just one less #1 on this chart at not even the halfway point of this year than 2025 produced all year (14).
