NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] Arlo Parks racks up a fifth straight week at #1 on the NACC 200 this week with her third LP, Ambiguous Desire. That fifth week ties her with Dry Cleaning for the second-longest stay at #1 in 2026, though there haven’t been very many chart-toppers this year, to be honest. Last year at this time (our 20th chart of 2025), nine different albums had reached #1. So far this year, only five have topped the chart. Parks also reaches #1 on her fifth NACC Chart this week, by climbing to the top on NACC Canadian. And we’d be remiss not to mention her milestone 20th cumulative week atop the NACC 200 over her three chart-toppers. Only Mitski has more (22), and the next-closest artist has 14. So the two of them have really dominated the charts over the past decade.
2] Toronto’s Broken Social Scene certainly shows their staying power this week as their sixth studio album, Remember The Humans, soars into the NACC Top 10. They skyrocket from 136-4 (which leaves them one single chart position from making one of the Top 10 biggest climbs ever into the top tier). They’re on the hunt for their third NACC 200 #1 album and certainly will be in the conversation for achieving it as soon as next week.
3] Another band eagerly clawing their way to the top is the Akron, OH duo The Black Keys. Just like Broken Social Scene, the band is in search of their third NACC 200 #1. They reached the top in 2019 and 2021 and have been quite prolific the last few years, releasing a new album in 2024, 2025, and now this year. Their 14th LP, Peaches! leaps from 11-2 to score their fifth NACC Top 10-peaking album. They also rise to #1 on this week’s NACC Non-Comm Chart, up 5-1. Another duo reaching the NACC Top 10 this week, by sailing ahead 115-10, is Hicksville, NY’s The Lemon Twigs. Formed in 2014, the band has six LPs under their belt, including their latest, Look For Your Mind! These are two excited duos using exclamation marks in their album titles! That makes us want to use another one too! There it was! Oh, we just did it again!
4] Swedish musician Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (what must her early elementary school days have been like, spelling that one out?) has returned, though you may know her better as simply Lykke Li. She’s been blending indie pop and electronic music quite nicely since 2007. And now, what she claims will be her final album is here. It’s her sixth LP, entitled The Afterparty. And oddly, it gives us just our first opportunity ever to feature her here in our NACC Weekly Chart Recap. Her album enjoys the NACC 200’s biggest climb this week, up 183-27.
5] Simultaneously enjoying this week’s most-added and highest-debuting album is Hannah Top, who records as Aldous Harding. The New Zealand-born musician made her recording debut in 2003, when the then 13-year-old performed a song she and her mom wrote together, titled “Exactly What To Say.” Just over a decade later, she released her first proper album (2014’s Aldous Harding). Now she’s back with her fifth LP, Train On The Island. It collects 55 Top 10 Adds and jumps aboard the NACC 200 at #17 this week.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS:
1] Rock N Roll Hall of Famer (by way of his band The White Stripes) Jack White spends a second week atop NACC Singles with his double single “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs” b/w “Derecho Demonico.” Though it’s fairly impossible to truly confirm, no single may have ever had two more hotly contested weeks at #1 in the history of NACC Singles. Last week, he bested Lucy Dacus by just two points. And although he opens up some breathing room between the two of them this week, the song he knocked from #1 makes a major run at the top again. Death Cab For Cutie lands just three points short of re-taking the top spot. But a #1 is a #1 no matter how you slice it. And it’s all Jack White’s again this week.
2] Two artists reach a tie for the most weeks spent at #1 on their respective genre charts this year. Thundercat ties Danny Brown (by way of his album Distracted) with his fifth week at #1 at NACC Hip Hop. And Ana Tijoux matches Silvana Estrada (via her 97 EP) with a fifth week at #1 on NACC Latin.
3] The NACC Non-Comm Chart has already had 11 different #1s in 2026 as The Black Keys rise to the top this week with their album, Peaches! There were 14 NACC Non-Comm #1s in all of 2025!
4] An artist who enjoyed the biggest NACC Chill release of 2020 is back at #1 this week. He’s been there once since, back in 2022. Aussie ambient electronic musician Dr. Simon Order, who records as Liminal Drifter, returns to the top with his album, Cowboy Pilgrim, rising 3-1 this week.
