Faye Webster put up a good fight trying to stay at #1 this week, regaining some of the points she lost last week, but in the end it wasn’t enough. After waiting patiently at #2 for three weeks, Philadelphia quartet Mannequin Pussy put the pedal down and surged past Webster to grab their first NACC 200 #1. Their fourth LP, I Got Heaven (Epitaph), not only reaches the top, but does so in grand fashion. Their point total is the biggest any #1 record has enjoyed dating back to November of 2022! They also grab a second week at #1 on the NACC NEXT Chart. Even with their lofty charting, they will have competition for #1 next week in the form of Waxahatchee, who soars 16-3 this week on the NACC 200.
After opening on the NACC 200 last week at #21, Adrianne Lenker jumps into the Top 10 of the NACC 200, up 21-7, with her sixth solo release, Bright Future (4AD). The Big Thief lead singer had reached the NACC Top 10 three times previously with her band and now rises into the Top 10 on her own for the first time after enjoying two Top 20-peaking solo releases in 2018 and 2020. Her album also reaches the Top 10 at NACC Non-Comm, up 28-9, and NACC Folk, moving 13-4.
Two more albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. Alongside Waxahatchee (who we featured last week) and Adrianne Lenker, we have Norah Jones. Jones is an artist who has one of only 25 albums ever to sell over a million copies in one week. She reaches the top tier with her ninth album, which moves 12-10. Portland, OR quartet STRFKR (Starfucker) makes an even bigger move, rising 14-9, with their seventh album, Parallel Realms (Polyvinyl). The band formed in 2007 and first reached the NACC Top 10 in 2020. They’ve now nabbed their second straight Top 10-peaking album this week.
Milwaukee native Julia Holter is back with her sixth studio album. She’s been making music professionally since 2006 She holds degrees in two music composition programs (one at the University of Michigan and the other from CalArts). She released her debut album in 2011. Her fourth album on Domino Records, Something In The Room She Moves, is this week’s highest debut on the NACC 200, jumping aboard at #21.
FINALLY! The opportunity to have a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man included in our Weekly NACC Chart Recap! Thank you, Chastity Belt! This week’s most-added album comes from the quartet who met while attending Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. They’ve stuck together ever since, releasing five LPs. Their latest is entitled Live Laugh Love and is their debut for Suicide Squeeze. The album collects 65 Top 10 Adds and sneaks aboard the NACC 200 at #174 this week. It’s Chastity Belt’s second ‘most-added album’ at NACC and they’ll be on the hunt for their second Top 200 chart-topper as well after first reaching #1 in 2018.
Spending a fourth week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart is “Broken Man,” the first release from St. Vincent‘s seventh album, All Born Screaming, which comes out April 26. It’s now the longest-running #1 single of the year. We can’t recall a time when we had a self-released single as our most-added for the week two weeks-in-a-row. This week Boston quartet Crumb return with the first single from their upcoming third album, Amama, due May 17. The single of the same name is one of four to make the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart and the only one to place in the Top 10.
