After starting the year with one artist atop the NACC 200 for the first five weeks of 2025, we’ve now had four different albums reach #1 in as many weeks! This week, Sharon Van Etten And The Attachment Theory rises 3-1 for their first collaborative #1 as a band. Van Etten topped the chart in 2019 with her fifth studio album, Remind Me Tomorrow, and came pretty close to getting there again in 2022 with We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong. Their self-titled band debut is Van Etten’s seventh LP and becomes the second #1 this year (as well as Father John Misty) to simultaneously top the NACC 200, NACC NEXT, and NACC Non-Comm Charts.
Two albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. The first comes from last week’s most-added album, SAYA (Dirty Hit), from Toronto-born musician Saya Gray. Her album also debuts in the Top 10 of the NACC Non-Comm and NACC Canadian Charts this week. If you want to catch her live in North America, you’ll have to wait a bit. She’s playing dates in Germany, Belgium, France, and the UK, but will be stateside at the end of April for dates in Chicago, New York, Toronto, and LA.
Our second album to reach the Top 10 this week comes from English quartet Circa Waves. Formed in 2013, the band has put out five prior studio albums. We first featured them in April 2019 when their third album, What’s It Like Over There?, was the week’s biggest climber on the NACC 200. Their latest, Death & Love, Pt. 1 (Lower Third/PIAS) will presumably be released in multiple parts. That’s what we surmise anyway from the album title! It’s the band’s first album to reach our Top 10!
Though we’re not entirely sure what Dead Gowns are, since we weren’t aware that gowns were ever living, we’re still thrilled to showcase the artist behind the name. Geneviève Beaudoin hails from Portland, ME and has recorded music under the Dead Gowns name since her debut EP in 2022. Her debut full-length, It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded by Snow (Mtn Laurel), has certainly touched a nerve with College & Non-Comm Radio as the album soars ahead from 144-16 on the NACC 200 this week.
This week’s most-added album comes from Los Angeles trio Cheekface. They are no strangers to the NACC Charts or our weekly chart recap. Their last three albums have been highlighted right here and the last two both reached the NACC Top 10! Their latest, Middle Spoon (Self-Released), is their first to take most-added honors. It collects 70 official NACC Top 10 Adds this week and the album hops aboard the NACC 200 at #126. It’s one of just two albums this year to enjoy 70+ Top 10 Adds.
Lucy Dacus‘ “Ankles” seems to be settling into the top spot now as she spends her third week-in-a-row at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart and her fifth overall. It’s the most time a single has spent at #1 going back to the middle of last year when Fontaines DC collected nine weeks on top. Just one single makes the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this week. The Kristin Hersh-fronted Throwing Muses, who formed in 1981, have released four preview tracks, including their latest, “South Coast.” They all hail from their upcoming 11th LP, Moonlight Concessions, due March 14.
