We’re back after a week away that covered both Canada Day and Independence Day. We sure hope you had a great holiday! We’re also back with a fresh new #1 on the NACC 200. After three weeks on top, Crumb slides to #5 and a very tenacious La Luz rises 2-1. The Seattle quartet rose to #2 on our June 11 NACC 200 and have been patiently waiting inside the Top 3 of the chart ever since. A month later, their third NACC Top 10 album becomes their second straight #1. News Of The Universe (Sub Pop) is the band’s fifth studio album and gives them their third cumulative week at #1. They’ll have their hands full picking up another week atop the chart as The Decemberists jump 6-2 and close the gab between themselves and La Luz by 92%. They also enjoy the smallest point gap between a #1 and #2 record that we’ve seen all year.
Only one album reaches the NACC Top 10 this week. Seeds of the Montreal trio were planted in 2019 when members of Ought and U.S. Girls began collaborating. Cola (we’ll set aside the long raging cola vs. pop carbonated beverage debate that their name conjures) was born the same day Ought disbanded in 2021. We first featured the band here in 2022 when their debut LP, Deep In View, was a most-added album and also rose 11-4 to score their first Top 10. They make an even bigger jump into the Top 10 this week, up 16-7, with their sophomore LP, The Gloss (Fire Talk).
The highest debut on the NACC 200 this week comes from our most recent most-added artist, New York-based quintet Been Stellar, who collected 54 Top 10 Adds the week of June 25. Their debut studio album, Scream From New York, NY (Dirty Hit) soars onto the chart this week at #13 making to the highest debut on the NACC 200 since Khruangbin debuted at #11 on April 9 and gives them the fourth-highest debut on the chart this year.
Making the biggest climb on this week’s NACC 200 is an artist who is no stranger to our weekly NACC Chart Recap and who Pitchfork dubbed “the godfather of chill wave”: Ernest Greene, who you may know better as Washed Out, was just the second act ever to score a Top 10 debut on the NACC 200 (with 2017’s Mister Mellow). His next album, 2020’s Purple Noon, gave him his first NACC 200 chart-topper and was a most-added record as well. Now we feature him as his fifth studio album, Notes From A Quiet Life (Sub Pop), rises 173-37 (the only triple-digit climb on the chart this week).
Collecting 67 Top 10 Adds is Chicago six-piece Wilco. Between the band’s success and their lead singer Jeff Tweedy’s solo work, we’ve featured Jeff/Wilco over 20 times here. Over the course of its 30-year career the band has released 13 LPs and a handful of EPs. Their latest extended play is called Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm) and comes from the drafts of their most recent Cousin LP. The band nearly doubles the adds of the next closest adding record this week, which rarely happens. It also debuts on the NACC 200 at #47.
Dashing Fontaines DC’s hopes of tying Arlo Parks for the most weeks ever at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week is musician Claire Cottrill, who records as Clairo. The second preview single from her upcoming third LP, Charm, actually debuts at #1 this week. The first single, “Sexy To Someone,” peaked at #2 (currently #4) and was kept from the top by the same Fontaines DC single she pushes from #1 this week. Sweet revenge! The timing here was just right as this was the last week any singles from her album were eligible for the singles chart. Charm will be out on Friday. Four singles reach the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this week, The highest among them is “Bells And Whistles,” the new single from Omaha trio Bright Eyes. It previews the band’s upcoming 11th LP, Five Dice, All Threes, due September 20. Also placing singles on the chart this week were MJ Lenderman, Empire Of The Sun, and Dice.
