Canadian musician Saya Gray accomplished something this week that no artist has done since our January 14 charts: spend a second week at #1 on the NACC 200. Until now, only Father John Misty had spent more than one week on top this year. Gray’s second LP, SAYA (Dirty Hit), now has the second-most time spent at #1 in 2025 of the six chart-toppers we’ve had. She looked possibly posed to pull the chart hat trick with her album jumping to #2 on the NACC Non-Comm & NEXT Charts last week too, but that didn’t come to pass. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory held tight to #1 at Non-Comm for an impressive sixth week and a fast-charging competitor in Deep Sea Diver overtook her at NACC NEXT leaping 8-1. Their 6-2 leap on the NACC 200 this week also sets us up for a #1 battle on next week’s big chart.
Two albums reached the NACC Top 10 this week. Recent NACC 200 biggest climbers, Dead Gowns, rise from 13 to 9 to score their first Top 10 album. But staying ahead of them and making a similar four-spot climb on the chart is Cheekface. The Los Angeles trio’s fifth studio album, Middle Spoon (Self-Released), becomes their third Top 10-charting album on the NACC 200, rising 12-8. Starting April 4th, you’ll be able to see if the band indeed have cheeks on their face as they kick off a 12-date tour across the US (with a date in Toronto for good measure) that starts in Phoenix, takes them to New York, and then back to LA.
Scoring a massive climb this week on the NACC 200 that any German might call ‘wunderbar’ is Boston trio Vundabar. We had an inkling last week when their sixth LP, Surgery And Pleasure (Loma Vista/Concord) was the week’s most-added album and debuted at #194 that they’d most likely land this week’s biggest move up the chart. But they do more than just that. Their 194-14 leap is the biggest this year and the most since June of last year! Now they are just a handful of chart positions away from scoring their first NACC 200 Top 10 album.
The highest new entry on the NACC 200 this week belongs to a singer-songwriter we’ve never heretofore (isn’t that a fun word?) had an opportunity to profile on the NACC Chart Recap. Los Angeles native Miya Folick began making music professionally in 2014. Her third studio album, Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk), debuts at #32 this week, more than 20 spots higher than the next-highest debuting album.
The English quartet Courting is back just a bit over a year after the release of their previous album. Their third LP potentially has one of the longest titles of any album we’ve featured here. Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ (Lower Third/PIAS) gives us our first chance to feature the band, which formed in 2018. This week they collected 66 Top 10 Adds and debuted at #136 on the NACC 200.
Eau Claire, Wi sextet Bon Iver spends a second week atop the NACC Singles Chart with “Everything Is Peaceful Love.” Over half the tracks on their upcoming fifth LP, SABLE, fABLE (due April 11), have already been released, “If Only I Could Wait,” also debuts at #20 on NACC Singles this week. Five of this week’s 41 singles adds place on the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart. Tops among them is the Pittsburgh quartet Feeble Little Horse. Their new stand-alone single, “This Is Real,” is their first new music since 2023 and scores an overall Top 10 Add, landing at #6 this week. Also making the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart are new singles from Matt Berninger, Mother Mother, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, and Late Again.
