The mighty three-way see-saw battle for #1 between Japanese Breakfast, Tunde Adebimpe, and Bon Iver may have continued this week were it not for a fresh new competitor that came on the scene last week. Between the three of them, Adebimpe edged back in front of Japanese Breakfast by two points this week. But it was for naught as last week’s most-added and highest-debuting album from London’s Stereolab soars past them all, rising 8-1, to give them their first NACC 200 chart-topper. The band’s first release in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Warp/Duophonic), ties the record for the fastest climb ever to #1 (2 weeks) and enjoys the second-biggest climb to #1 this year. They also leap 13-1 to top NACC NEXT and move within one spot of the top at NACC Non-Comm, up 10-2. After weeks of nail-bitingly close #1 battles, they open up the widest lead any NACC 200 chart-topper has had dating back to our April 15 chart.
No new albums reach the NACC 200’s Top 10 this week, but one album is worth special mention as one of the Top 3 biggest rebounds ever back into the Top 10. The Top 20 has several interesting rebounds from older albums this week, but leading the charge is Cambridge, England sextet Black Country, New Road. Their third LP, Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune), reached #2 in April. This week they race back up 16-10 for a seventh week inside the Top 10. For the chart buffs out there, the biggest rebound ever belongs to Hurray For Riff Raff, who jumped back 13-6 last year.
The week’s highest debut on the NACC 200 belongs to Florry. Not to be confused as a misspelled cousin of Pee-Wee Herman’s friend Chairry, Florry is a Philadelphia seven-piece that began in 2019 as a solo project for Temple University student Francie Medosch. Six years later, the band has just released their sophomore studio album, Sounds Like (Dear Life). Their lofty debut at #15 (one of the Top 5 of 2025) on the NACC 200 this week gives us our first chance to showcase them in our Weekly NACC Chart Recap and overreach in trying to make a timely, and perhaps groan-worthy, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse joke. Check out that new Pee-Wee documentary if you haven’t already!
We have a rare single to showcase next as this week’s biggest climber on the NACC 200. We generally don’t showcase singles in our five main features or any climbers below the Top 40 of the chart. Otherwise, last week’s biggest climber (which was also a single) would have been featured. Only 23 singles have ever been our biggest climber, and of those, only three previous singles have climbed into the Top 30 that week. So last week’s most-added single from Asheville-based Wednesday becomes just the fourth with their 171-29 leap this week. Their new single, “Elderberry Wine” (which as of now is a stand-alone single) also soars from 20-2 at NACC Singles.
Some marine-life trivia for you: The acid-yellow sea slugs living in Washington’s Puget Sound are called sea lemons. While that may be an interesting enough tidbit to include in itself, there is a deeper reason that we mentioned it. Natalie Lew is a Seattle-based artist who records music under the name Sea Lemon. And her debut LP, Diving For A Prize (Luminelle), pulls off a photo-finish win for most-added album this week, besting Matt Berninger by a single Top 10 Add. This album follows two EPs: 2022’s Close Up and 2023’s Stop At Nothing. And depending on how hard this album hits the ground running, she also gives herself a fighting chance at the ‘all-time biggest climber’ record on the NACC 200 as her album debuts at #200 this week. She’d need to climb to #9 next week to do it.
Though we can’t be entirely sure, we don’t recall a time when an artist simultaneously had the #1 song on the NACC Singles Chart and also scored the #1 most-added single with another song. But if it’s never happened before, it’s happened this week! Anticipation for Wet Leg‘s second LP, moisturizer, due July 11, is at a fever pitch. Two singles that have been released so far have certainly added to that. “Catch These Fists” spends a 2025 lead-padding eighth week atop the NACC Singles Chart. And their new single, “CPR” is one of just two to make the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this week. Also making it onto the list with a new single is Sir Chloe.
