NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] Death Cab For Cutie crosses over the summer break and quite handily fends off their competition to grab a fourth week at #1 on the NACC 200 with their 11th LP, I Built You A Tower. We thought it would be interesting to revisit the chart after the summer break to see if it generally causes a shake-up. Does a new #1 album usually emerge, or does the current leader typically hold its position? The results were completely inconclusive as it’s split evenly between the two scenarios!
2] Two albums reach the NACC 200’s Top 10 this week for the first time. The first is our biggest climber into the top tier this week. It comes from the biggest climber on the NACC 200, a couple of charts back. Montreal five-piece La Sécurité jumps ahead from 11-5 and reaches the Top 10 for the first time with their second LP, Bingo!
3] Also reaching the Top 10 with her debut LP is Violet Grohl. If that last name seems familiar to you and makes you wonder if she’s related to Foo Fighters lead singer and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, you’d be absolutely right. Violet is the oldest of his four daughters. She made her debut as a singer in 2018 at 12, when she and her father performed Adele’s “When We Were Young” at a benefit concert. Her first album, Be Sweet To Me, climbs from 14 to 10. Also of note, American Football rebounds back into the Top 10, rising 12-9 after a week outside the top tier.
4] Scoring the highest debut on the NACC 200 this week is another Montreal outfit called Knitting. What began as a bedroom project for musician Mischa Demsey during the pandemic has now grown to a trio. The interlooping yarn aficionados have released two albums, including their latest, Souvenir. It follows up their 2024 debut, Some Kind Of Heaven, and gives us our first opportunity to feature the band here with their explosive NACC 200 debut at #12.
5] This week’s biggest climber comes from the artist who landed last week’s most-added album. UK musician Beth Orton leaps from 166-24 with her ninth LP, The Ground Above. Even with all her accomplishments at College & Non-Comm Radio over the years, we were happy to finally get our first chance to showcase her in our Weekly NACC Chart recap for the first time last week and now again this time around.
6] Another artist who has made huge waves over the years (not just at College & Non-Comm Radio but in the music industry in general) is back. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee via his band The White Stripes and a member of the bands The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather along the way, Jack White has enjoyed an illustrious solo career as well. His seventh solo LP, Frozen Charlotte, becomes his first to take most-added honors. He collects 53 Top 10 Adds and soars onto the NACC 200 at #14 this week.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS:
1] One of indie music’s most successful musicians over the past decade is back. As a solo musician and via her bands boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center, Phoebe Bridgers has enjoyed great NACC Chart success. And the first single from her upcoming third LP, Lost Weekend, due August 14, is keeping that going for her. “Lost Boys” soars 10-1 on the NACC Singles Chart and makes the second-biggest climb on the NACC 200, up 107-17.
2] One of the higher turnover genre charts this year has been NACC Electronic. Along with NACC Heavy, the longest runs atop this chart in 2026 have been for four weeks. All other NACC Charts have 5+ week runs for the longest of the year. This week, Boards of Canada matches Drama, who set the bar fairly early in 2026 with four weeks at #1. We’ll see if they can take the crown all for themselves next week.
3] Two other genre charts see artists climb within one week of matching the longest run of the year so far. At NACC Latin, Mexican Institute Of Sound & The Meridian Brothers grab a fifth week on top (one short of Ana Tijoux’s six-week run). And at NACC Blues. Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band enjoys a seventh week at #1 (one week shy of Tinsley Ellis’ eight-week run).