NACC 200 NOTABLES:
1] After a sooner-than-expected challenge for #1 from Geese last week, Wednesday enjoys a third week at #1 on the NACC 200 with their sixth LP, Bleeds. The gap between the two albums lessens, with Wednesday down a bit in points from last week. However, Geese don’t gain as dramatically this week as they did last time, which allows Wednesday to remain on top. They also spend a second week atop NACC NEXT.
2] Only one album reaches the NACC 200’s Top 10 this week. Los Angeles trio Automatic rises 11-10 (after soaring 57-11 last week) with their third studio album, Is It Now? This is the second Top 10 in a row for the band. Their previous release, Excess, made about as dramatically different a climb into the top tier as their latest album did this week, when it skyrocketed from 155-8 in 2022. Regardless, a Top 10 record is a Top 10 record!
3] Enjoying this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200 is Nashville six-piece Snõõper, who formed in 2020. The band’s second LP, Worldwide, sails ahead from 150-27 on the chart this week. They’re in search of making it two-for-two in Top 10-peaking albums as their debut, Super Snõõper, rose into the top tier in 2023. Also, bonus points for having a band member named Happy Haugen.
4] Scoring the highest debut of the week is LA’s Peel Dream Magazine. Begun in 2018, the band has been busy ever since, releasing five studio albums, including their latest, Taurus. The album gives us our first opportunity to feature the band here in our Weekly NACC Chart Recap as it debuts at #35 on the NACC 200 this week.
5] Taking most-added honors this week is Melina Mae Duterte, who you may know better as Jay Som. She’s back with her fourth LP, Belong. The time between this album and her previous efforts is the longest yet, at six years. Her last two albums, 2017’s Everybody Works & 2019’s Anak Ko, both reached the NACC Top 10, with the latter spending three weeks at #1. She collects 64 Top 10 Adds this week and has one of the Top 5 highest debuts on the NACC 200, opening at #68.
GENRE CHART HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
1] Rising to #1 on NACC Singles this week is Aussie singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker, who records as Tame Impala. The third preview track from his upcoming fifth LP, Deadbeat, is called “Dracula.” And just in time for spooky season, it takes a bite out of the competition and climbs 3-1 this week.
2] Two artists move within one week of tying for the longest-running #1s of 2025 on their respective charts this week. On NACC Canadian, TOPS rebound 3-1 for a fourth week on top and moves within one week of matching The Weather Station’s five-week run at #1 that began in February. On the NACC Electronic Chart, Cut Copy also enjoys a fourth week on top and is now a week away from tying Tokimonsta’s 2025-best five-week #1 run.
3] We see the #1 tally on NACC Jazz match 2024’s total this week as saxophonist Eric Alexander rises from 2-1 with Like Sugar, his staggering 48th album as a leader. This is the chart’s 15th chart-topper of 2025 (he also recently scored the year’s 13th chart-topper: his collaborative album with Vincent Herring), and with eight chart weeks left in the year, we’ll likely see more than last year’s tally.
