Seattle quartet Deep Sea Diver has enjoyed a serious chart glow-up! Together since 2007, the band has released four studio albums. Their previous effort, 2020’s Impossible Weight, didn’t see a NACC Weekly Chart Recap feature and didn’t make the NACC Top 10. Now here they are with their latest effort, Billboard Heart (their first on Sub Pop), enjoying the biggest climb into the Top 10 two weeks ago and reaching the top of the chart this week, up 2-1. It’s 2025’s seventh chart-topper. They also spend a second week at #1 on the NACC NEXT Chart and rise 3-2 at NACC Non-Comm.
Just one album reaches the NACC Top 10 this week. It comes from New York native Sasami Ashworth, who records simply as SASAMI. Her professional career in music dates back to 2012. She has released three LPs, including her latest, Blood on the Silver Screen (Domino).. She came out of the box hot with her self-titled debut in 2019, which was the most-added album the week it came out. The album reached the Top 5. Her follow-up, Squeeze, reached the Top 10 in 2022. That means she’s three-for-three as she rises 16-9 this week.
Last week’s most-added album from British four-piece Courting wastes no time racing up the NACC 200. Their third LP, Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ (Lower Third/PIAS), debuted at #136 last week and enjoys this week’s biggest climb, vaulting ahead to #12. The album is currently ranked in the Top 20 on Metacritic’s best reviewed albums of 2025 so far.
Another of this year’s early Top 20 best-reviewed albums, according to Metacritic, is the new album from Japanese Breakfast. Formed in Philadelphia in 2013, the quartet is led by Michelle Zauner and has released four LPs, including their latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), out on Dead Oceans. It pulls double duty this week as our most-added album and our highest debut. Their 88 Top 10 Adds are the most so far this year, and their #14 debut is the second-highest.
With Japanese Breakfast taking two of our normal feature feats this week, we’ve chosen to shine a light on Cootie Catcher. The Toronto-based quartet released their first music in 2023 and have been catching cooties ever since! Their debut studio album, Shy at First (Cooked Raw), makes a sprightly leap up the chart, rising from No. 125 to No. 20. It’s one of only two albums to jump more than 100 spots into the Top 20 this week — and one of just six to do so this year.
Pittsburgh quartet Feeble Little Horse scored last week’s most-added single with their new stand-alone track, “This Is Real.” This week, the song immediately debuts at #1 on NACC Singles and opens at #39 on the NACC 200. Only one single placed inside the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this week. Austin, TX quartet Mamalarky has released four advance tracks from their upcoming third LP, Hex Key, due April 11. “Anhedonia” is their latest.
