Last week, Japanese Breakfast had a bonkers lead over everyone else on the NACC 200 with nearly twice as many points as their next closest competitor. That lead has shrunk substantially this week, though they still have a commanding one with about 30% more points than #2. Additionally, every album behind them in the Top 5 gains ground this week. That said, the Philadelphia quartet nearly holds even in their ‘year’s best’ point total from last week for a third week at #1 with their Dead Oceans release, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women). It’s the second-longest stay at #1 this year. They also spend a second week at #1 on NACC NEXT and a third at NACC Non-Comm. Black Country, New Road makes a big move up 15-2 and nearly triples their point total from last week, making next week’s race for #1 much more interesting.
Four albums (including the aforementioned Black Country, New Road) reach the NACC Top 10 this week, and another one with their sights squarely on #1 is Calabasas, CA-formed and Brooklyn, NY-based quartet Momma. The band formed in 2015 when high school friends Etta Friedman & Allegra Weingarten began making music together. In 2022, their third studio album, Household Name, rose to #1 on the NACC 200. Their fourth LP, Welcome To My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl), hopes to replicate that success, and a 38-4 leap on the NACC 200 certainly adds fuel to that fire.
Two more albums rise almost side-by-side into the Top 10 this week in a climb too close for us to decide which to feature over the other. So we’re featuring them both! The first is from FRIGS frontwoman Bria Salmena. Her Toronto quartet has been together since 2013 and has released one LP. Salmena has also put out two EPs of country music covers (in 2021 & 2023). And fun fact: she & her fellow band members have contributed to the recording and supporting touring for Orville Peck. Salmana’s first solo LP, Big Dog (Sub Pop), becomes her first NACC 200 Top 10 this week, sailing ahead 28-8.
Rising a whopping 30-9 on the NACC 200 is Orange County four-piece Greer. The band formed in 2018 after bassist Seth Thomson and drummer Lucas Ovalle met at a show. They have released two EPs (in 2020 and 2021) and have now returned to release their debut studio album, Big Smile (Epitaph). Their rise into the Top 10 gives us our first opportunity to feature the band in our weekly NACC Chart Recap.
The eagerly awaited fifth LP from Eau Claire, WI sextet Bon Iver is finally here. After releasing part of the album as an EP last year, the full product is now available, and College & Non-Comm Radio is gobbling it up. SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar) is not only #1 on the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart with 86 Top 10 Adds this week (the second-most this year), but the album enjoys the highest debut on the NACC 200 so far in 2025, blazing onto the chart at #11. They’ll be hunting for their first NACC 200 Chart-topping album with this one, and they’re certainly off to a rousing and intimidating start!
Also worthy of mention this week is another band that tied Bon Iver for most-added honors on the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart. The quartet Mamalarky formed in 2016 in Austin, TX, though they now call Atlanta home. Their self-titled debut became a NACC 200 Top 10 hit in 2020. The follow-up, 2022’s Pocket Fantasy, didn’t quite make the Top 10. But with 86 Top 10 Adds (the first tie for #1 in Adds dating back to late 2023 and the ninth overall time it’s happened) and a NACC 200 Top 3 debut at #51, they seem poised for their second.
After Wet Leg‘s tie for the most Top 10 Adds this year for a single last week, little question was left whether the song would reach #1 on NACC Singles. “Catch These Fists” doesn’t make us wait long either, zipping from 6-1 this week. The song also soars 89-14 on the NACC 200 as they hope to join Arlo Parks and Soccer Mommy as the only artists to reach the NACC 200’s Top 10 with a single. Their sophomore LP, moisturizer, comes out July 11. Triumphantly returning after a 15-year hiatus is beloved UK outfit Stereolab. With “Aerial Troubles,” the band has only the third single to land inside the Top 5 of the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this year. The single hails from their 11th LP, Instant Holograms on Metal Film, due May 23. Other singles reaching the Top 30 Adds Chart this week come from Frankie Cosmos, Turnstile, Hotline TNT, Pulp, Laamar, Spacey Jane, and Yeule.
