After gentlemanly waiting for three weeks at #2 and allowing MJ Lenderman to bask in a 2024-best six weeks on top, Cameron Lew, who records as Ginger Root, has his patience pay off with a 2-1 rise on the NACC 200. His fourth album, Shinbangumi (Ghostly International), became his first Top 10 on the chart four weeks ago and now gives him his first chart topper. The album also steps ahead 4-2 at NACC NEXT. Lew will immediately need to defend his title next week as The Linda Lindas (4-2) are just over 100 points behind him and make a 28% gain up the chart to Lew’s 9%. Should make for an exciting battle next week!
There are no new debuts on the NACC Top 10 this week. The last time that happened was in April. But there is a rebound into the top tier. It comes from Nilufer Yanya, who repeats the climb she made two weeks ago, rising back 11-10. The British-born singer has recorded three studio albums and every one of them has reached our Top 10. My Method Actor (ATO), is her latest, and it also appears inside the Top 10 on this week NACC Non-Comm and Canadian Charts as well.
One of the most highly anticipated albums of the year went for adds this week. Zurich-born, Nashville-raised Sophia Allison, who records as Soccer Mommy, scored two #1 NACC Singles earlier this year with preview tracks from her fourth LP, Evergreen (Loma Vista/Concord). Her previous three albums have all topped the NACC 200 and she has the third most cumulative weeks ever at #1 (14), so expectations are sky high here. Allison certainly doesn’t rest on her laurels her first week out either, taking most-added honors with 70 Top 10 Adds and simultaneously scores this week’s highest debut at #21.
Also making a very lofty debut on the NACC 200 this week is Brooklyn, NY duo Rubblebucket. Alex Toth and Kalmia Traver met while attending the University Of Vermont and the project came to fruition after graduation in 2007. Since then they have recorded six LPs and six EPs. Their latest LP, Year Of The Banana (Egghunt), focuses on one specific year: 2015. It’s the year the duo’s personal relationship fell apart and how they learned to transition to being friends and move forward as a band. The album jumps aboard the NACC 200 this week at #23 and will be in search of their third trip to the NACC Top 10.
We have our first opportunity this week to feature Boyscott, started as a bedroom project for Scott Hermo Jr. while a student at Belmont University in Nashville. A self-released debut album arrived in 2015 but school commitments kept a solid lineup from forming. Attention for the band grew over the years and a physical release came in 2019. Five years later, now comes a sophomore release, Spellbound (Topshelf). The album enjoys this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200, leaping 189-32.
The Cure holds firm at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart for a second week with “A Fragile Thing.” It’s the second advance track on their upcoming Songs Of A Lost World album, due November 1. “A Fragile Thing” also rises 62-25 on the NACC 200. Sharon Van Etten is back with her backing band, The Attachment Theory. Her seventh album (and her first with this band) will arrive February 7. The first music from it, “Afterlife,” is this week’s most-added single. It is the only single of the 56 going for adds this week to place on the NACC Top 30 Adds Chart.
