This week’s climb to #1 on the NACC 200 is full of notable feats, and it comes from last week’s most-added album and highest debut. Philly-based quartet Japanese Breakfast were most recently on our chart in 2021 and spent five weeks at #1 with their third studio album, Jubilee. The Dead Oceans follow-up, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), has quickly become their second chart-topper. How quickly? It ties the record for the fastest climb to #1 (two weeks). And by jumping from 14-1, the album enjoys the most significant climb to the top since The Beths jumped 24-1 in 2022. No other album has climbed from outside the Top 10 to #1 since then! One last noteworthy NACC 200 accomplishment is that the album accumulates more points this week than any other album in 2025. Finally, Japanese Breakfast isn’t just #1 on the NACC 200. They also debut at #1 on the NACC Non-Comm Chart (the second album to do so this year).
The only other album reaching the NACC Top 10 comes from British four-piece Courting, 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), has been on a rocket ride up the NACC 200 the last few weeks, debuting at #136 and then enjoying the week’s biggest climb the following week, up to #12. Although their jump into the Top 5 is tempered a bit by getting climbed over by Japanese Breakfast, the group has never reached this high before, so there is no reason for pouting. Huzzahs all around!
This week’s highest debut comes from one of College & Non-Comm radio’s darlings of the past few years. As a solo artist (in 2021) and a member of three-time Grammy-winning trio boygenius (in 2023), Lucy Dacus has reached the NACC 200’s Top 10 multiple times. The Mechanicsville, VA-born musician is back with her highly anticipated fourth LP, Forever Is A Feeling. It’s her major-label debut on Geffen after two Matador releases and leaps aboard the NACC 200 at #16 (the third highest debut this year). It also debuts inside the Top 10 on the NACC NEXT and Non-Comm Charts.
We’re always so pleased to have a fresh new artist or band to feature on our Weekly NACC Chart Recap, and this week it comes in the form of LA County-based band Dutch Interior. Consisting of six life-long friends living between houses in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the band has unleashed their debut LP, Moneyball (Fat Possum), and it is finding an immediate home on NACC-reporting stations across North America. As a result, the album leaps from 165-22 on the NACC 200 this week.
No one else on our recap this week has been making music for as long as Vancouver-based septet (that means seven members) Destroyer. The Canadian outfit formed in 1995 and although members have come and gone over the years, the one through-line is frontman Dan Bejar. Appropriately titled Dan’s Boogie (Merge), this is the band’s fourteenth LP and is off to a great start, collecting more Top 10 Adds (73) than anyone else this week. That’s the third-most first-week Top 10 adds this year. The album also debuts on the NACC 200 at #84.
Pittsburgh quartet Feeble Little Horse spends a second week at #1 on NACC Singles with “This Is Real.” The song also races ahead 39-21 on the NACC 200 and increases its lead over the next highest-charting single by over 100 points this week. For the first time in 2025 no singles make the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart. But two bands do tie for the most-added single of the week. They come from The Bug Club (“Jealous Boy”) and Foxwarren (“Listen2Me”). These are the first singles from each group’s next albums, Very Human Features and 2, due June 13 and May 30 respectively.
