Brooklyn-based quartet Crumb has reached the Top 10 of the NACC 200 twice previously, but this time they seal the deal by rising 2-1 to score their first #1 on our chart. Their third LP, AMAMA (out on their own Crumb Records) becomes 2024’s tenth #1. We looked back on how long it took to reach the tenth #1 of the year on previous years and found May to June was a pretty typical time it happened. Last year’s was noticeably earlier though, occurring in the first week of May. Crumb is also Top 10 at NACC NEXT (#3) and NACC Non-Comm (#10) this week. Their main competition for #1 next week will come from La Luz (up 3-2 this week and in seach of their second NACC 200 chart-topper).
Two albums climb into the NACC Top 10 this week. Ibibio Sound Machine reached #10 two weeks ago before dropping to #13 last week. This week they not only rebound but hit a new peak, up 13-9. But it’s Brooklyn quartet DIIV that makes the biggest move into the top tier. Their fourth studio album, Frog In Boiling Water (Fantasy/Concord), leaps 12-5 and becomes their second Top 10 album here. Their previous LP, Deceiver, was also the week’s biggest-mover into the Top 10 when it jumped 71-8 in October of 2019.
Exploding up the NACC 200 this week from 200-16 is last week’s most-added artist. And guess what? They’re from Brooklyn too! And they also have a one word band title: Habibi. Although unlike Crumb and DIVV there are five members instead of four. When their third studio album, Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars), debuted at #200 last week we knew they’d probably be in for a big climb this week, but it’s really doozy, as their 186 point climb is the second-biggest ever on the NACC 200! Only Yard Act has enjoyed a larger climb, rising 196-6 in 2022. We’ve guessing that makes for a happy Habibi.
Landing this week’s highest-debut on the NACC 200 is yet another New York City resident, Arooj Aftab. Aftab was born in Saudi Arabia to Pakistani parents that expatriated to Saudi Arabia, but returned in Pakistan when she was 10. Aftab moved to the US when she was 19, earning a degree from Boston’s Berklee College of Music and moving to NYC upon her graduation in 2010. Night Reign (Verve) is her fourth LP. It jumps aboard the NACC 200 at #27 this week as well as enjoying a debut at NACC Jazz, opening at #10.
Our most-added album this week is from a band so nice they named it twice: Man Man. Formed in Philadelphia in 2003 and led by Ryan Kattner, who goes by the name Honus Honus (we’re guessing maybe he’s the Man Man?), the five-piece currently resides in New Yo… just kidding! They broke our streak and live in Los Angeles. Their seventh LP, Carrot On Strings, is their second Sub Pop release. The album collects 48 Top 10 Adds and should make a splashy debut on the next NACC 200.
This week, Irish quartet Fontaines DC spends a seventh straight week at #1 on NACC Singles with “Starbuster.” They now have the the longest-running #1 on this chart since Arlo Parks spent 10 weeks on top in early 2023. “Starbuster” is from their fourth album, Romance, due August 23. This week’s most-added single comes from Chicago quintet Brigette Calls Me Baby. Their new single “We Were Never Alive” (which does beg the question, how did they make this song?!) is helping announce their debut album, The Future Is Our Way Out, due August 2. Two other singles placed on the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds chart this week from two bands whose new songs definitely will not be found on their debut albums: Osees (29th album on the way!) and The Jesus Lizard (releasing their first new album in 26 years!)
