After patiently waiting for four excruciatingly long weeks at #2, Houston trio Khruangbin have risen to #1 to score their first chart-topper on the NACC 200! We don’t recall another album ever spending that much time at #2 and then closing the deal. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened! But we sure don’t recall a time that it has. The band’s fifth LP, A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group) is this year’s eighth #1 and a rare mostly-instrumental penthouse-occupier. The album also spends a second week atop NACC Non-Comm and spends a fifth week inside the Top 5 on our World Chart. It was also a recent #1 at Chill. Next week will be interesting with The Black Keys (3-2) gaining almost six times the points Khruangbin did this week and definitely hoping to challenge for #1. Time will tell!
Two albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week and we’re featuring both of them here. The first makes a huge leap into the top tier. Los Angeles-based musician Jessica Pratt soars from 51-8 on the chart. Pratt began recording songs when she was 16 and released her self-titled debut album in 2012. After five years away, her fourth LP, Here In The Pitch (Mexican Summer), gives us our first opportunity to feature her in our weekly NACC Chart Recap. Pratt’s album is one of the Top 5 best-reviewed of 2024 according to Metacritic.
Also rising into the Top 10 is Austin, TX duo Hovvdy. They were featured here two weeks ago when they enjoyed the week’s most-added record. Their self-titled fifth LP, out on Arts & Crafts, is wasting little time scaling the chart, moving 90-12-6 and lands their second straight Top 10 album this week. Charlie Martin and Will Taylor have been making music together for a decade now and have released an ambitious double-album that many are calling their best yet.
Chicago trio Dehd makes waves this week with their fifth LP, Poetry (Fat Possum). The band, who came together in 2015, simultaneously collects the most Top 10 Adds (nabbing 64 of them) and landing the highest debut on the NACC 200, opening at #27. They’ve certainly lined themselves up for what looks like it may become their third straight NACC Top 10-peaking album, possibly as soon as next week. Watch this space.
Los Angeles-based jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who began his musical career in 2000, lands this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200. His fifth LP, Fearless Movement (Young), is his first in six years and is the fourth-biggest climber so far this year, up 194-42. The album features contributions from luminaries such as Andre 300, Thundercat, and George Clinton. Fearless Movement holds as #2 on our Jazz Chart this week and debuts at R&B/Soul as well.
Irish quartet Fontaines DC moves into a tie for second place for the most weeks at #1 on NACC Singles so far this year. “Starbuster” spends a third week on top. The song comes from their fourth album, Romance, which comes out August 23. London-based musician Beabadoobee is back with “Take A Bite,” the first single from her upcoming third album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves. Out of 41 singles that went for adds this week, hers was one of just two to land on the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart (the other belonging to Arooj Aftab) and places inside the Top 15 of the overall adds for the week.
