We’ve mentioned the quick turnover at the top of the NACC 200 a lot lately. We see evidence of that again this week even with an album spending a third week at #1. In staying at the top for a third frame, Asheville quartet Wednesday now has the second-longest run at #1 on the NACC 200 this year. In most of the past years, a three-week run wouldn’t even be a top 5 longest run overall. If Wednesday can remain at #1 next week they’ll tie Weyes Blood for the longest #1 run in 2023. The band’s fifth LP, Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group), fends off a resurgent The New Pornographers, whose former #1 rebounds 4-2 and rises to the top at both NACC NEXT and NACC Canadian this week.
Just one new album reaches the NACC Top 10 this week. Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, who records as The Tallest Man On Earth, rises 12-7. His seventh studio album, Henry St. (Anti) is his quickest follow-up record with less than eight months between its release and his previous LP, Too Late For Edelweiss. All of this got us thinking about the actual tallest man on earth. The record belongs to Robert Wadlow, who reached a height of 8′ 11″ before he died. The current tallest man on earth is Sultan Kösen who measures nearly 8′ 3″. Perhaps Matsson is a bit jealous, coming in at 5′ 7″. Regardless, his record takes a ‘measured’ jump and has reached new ‘heights’ this week so that should make him happy. Pour yourself a ‘tall’ one Kristian!
Making a splashy debut on the NACC 200 this week is New York brother outfit The Lemon Twigs. Just last week their fourth LP, Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks), enjoyed ‘most-added’ honors. Brian and Michael D’Addario explode onto the NACC 200 this week at #13, giving them the third highest-debuting album this year. Fun The Lemon Twigs fact: Brian D’Addario played Gavroche in Les Miserables and Flounder in The Little Mermaid on Broadway as a child.
Hillaryville, LA native Durand Jones has been recording with his group Durand Jones & The Indications since 2012. Now comes his first solo release. Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group) is a deeply personal record about growing up in a town established as a form of reparations to ex-slaves shortly after Emancipation and what has become of the town since then. The album is this week’s biggest climber on the NACC 200, leaping 134-40 and topping the NACC R&B/Soul Chart this week, rising 6-1.
Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally record as Beach House. The Baltimore duo are College and Non-Comm favorites, having been featured here 13 times previously due to the success of their two previous NACC 200 chart-topping albums. After releasing eight LPs since they formed in 2004, now comes their first proper EP, Become (Sub Pop). It’s this week’s most-added record, collecting 45 Top 10 Adds. Although this is the second-lowest number of Top 10 Adds for a #1-adding record this year, it’s the only EP that has accomplished this feat and one of very few EPs ever to take ‘most-added’ honors.
Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat and Kevin Parker aka Tame Impala have not released albums on their own since 2020, but their stand-alone collaborative single is giving fans of both musicians a nice treat. “No More Lies” holds down #1 on the NACC Singles Chart again this week after jumping 5-1 last week. Arlo Parks has been no stranger to ‘Most-Added Single’ honors this year. Each one of her four preview tracks from her forthcoming sophomore LP, My Soft Machine (due May 26), has been the most-added single the week it went for adds. This is an achievement that no other artist has ever accomplished. The song that we assume is her final advance track, “Pegasus” feat. Phoebe Bridgers, is a Top 10 overall add this week and already debuts at #12 on NACC Singles this week.
The current Top 5 overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. In addition to rebounds to #1 at Jazz and Blues, there are new chart-toppers this week at NACC NEXT, NACC Canadian, Hip Hop, Folk, Chill, & R&B/Soul.
