After two weeks on top, it was pretty clear watching the NACC 200 Building Chart (where you can see the chart being built in real time with each new reporter) that The Clientele was not going to claim a third week at #1. The question was who was going to lay claim to the 15th #1 of 2023? For most of the reporting window Ratboys had the lead but literally with seconds to go before charts closed, San Francisco five piece Osees snuck ahead by mere points to grab their second NACC 200 chart-topper. Their 27th LP, Intercepted Message (In The Red), rises 4-1 on the chart this week. They’ll have plenty of competition for the top spot next week, some of whom we are about to feature below.
Chicago band Ratboys may have fallen mere points short of #1 this week, but their climb into the Top 10 was notable and impressive. With a massive 63-2 advance up the chart with last week’s most added album, The Window (Topshelf), the band scored the biggest ever climb into the Top 3 of the NACC 200! Their fifth studio album is one of four albums to reach the Top 10 this week.
Another of this week’s new Top 10 albums comes from Kofi Owusu-Ansah, who records as Genesis Owusu. The Australian-born singer and rapper got his start when his older brother, rapper Citizen Kay, featured him on his 2015 track “Family Ties.” His second LP, STRUGGLER (Ourness/AWAL) rises 11-7 this week. It also climbs 22-18 at NACC Hip Hop.
Jumping 12-5 into the NACC Top 10 this week is Margaret Glaspy. Born in Sacramento, Glaspy attended the Berkelee School of Music but could only afford to attend for one semester, though she continued to sneak into workshops and masterclasses on campus. Soon she began performing around Boston. Echo The Diamond (ATO) is her third studio album.
Our last NACC Top 10 debut, the new record from longtime British five-piece Slowdive, enjoys several notable accomplishments this week. Aside from collecting an impressive 81 Top 10 Adds (the most of any album this week), their fifth LP (and second since they reformed in 2014), explodes into the NACC 200 at #8. Not only is everything is alive (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group) the highest debut of the week, but makes them just the fourth artist to debut inside the Top 10 this year.
Mitski spends a fifth straight week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart with “Bug Like An Angel.” The song is the lead single (and first of three preview tracks she’s released) from her forthcoming seventh LP, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, due September 15. Taking ‘most-added single’ honors is longtime London-based quintet Hot Chip. Their first new music of 2023 is a collaboration with fellow Londoner Yunè Pinku called “Fire Of Mercy.” It’s one of just two singles to make the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this week, the other coming from Mannequin Pussy.
