Each week, 10 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026.

Last week's results:

Muse - Be With You [8]

MUNA - So What [5]

Dermot Kennedy - Honest [2]

Paris Paloma - Miyazaki [2]

Artemas - More Than Just A Little Bit [1]

Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides [1]

DMA'S - My Baby's Place [1]

Foo Fighters - Caught In The Echo [1]

The Black Keys - Where There's Smoke, There's Fire [0]

Nickelback - Bones For The Crows [0]

Total votes: 21

Here are this week's contenders:

Against The Current - Heavenly

DON BROCO (feat. Sam Carter) - True Believers

Florence Road - Hanging Out To Dry
Jungle - Carry On

Melanie Martinez - UNCANNY VALLEY

Paul McCartney - Days We Left Behind
PRESIDENT - Mercy

Pulp - Marrying For Love

The Snuts - Motherlands

Suki Waterhouse - Back in Love

2026 Indie/Rock/Alt Track of the Week Winners

Week 1: Ladytron - Caught in the Blink of an Eye

Week 2: Mandy, Indiana - Cursive

Week 3: Gorillaz (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar) - Orange County

Week 4: James Blake - Death of Love

Week 5: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis

Week 6: sombr - Homewrecker

Week 7: Charli xcx - Always Everywhere

Week 8: Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter
Week 9: Gorillaz (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought) - The Moon Cave

Week 10: Cameron Winter - Warning

Week 11: beabadoobee (feat. The Marías) - All I Did Was Dream of You

Week 12: Muse - Be With You

I like the ones from Florence Road and Jungle - went for Florence.

Went for Paul McCartney!

The Jungle song is growing on me after I was a bit indifferent to it on first listen... however I went for The Snuts this week, that one sounded great on first listen!

More votes please!

My personal rankings for Week 13;

1. PRESIDENT – Mercy

2. Against The Current – Heavenly

3. Pulp – Marrying For Love

4. Jungle – Carry On

5. The Snuts – Motherlands

6. Paul McCartney – Days We Left Behind

7. Suki Waterhouse – Back in Love

8. Florence Road – Hanging Out To Dry

9. Melanie Martinez – UNCANNY VALLEY

10. DON BROCO feat. Sam Carter – True Believers

Final call!

On 28/03/2026 at 09:04, Steve201 said:

Went for Paul McCartney!

Ditto - lovely song from him!

1 Florence Road

2 PRESIDENT

3 Suki Waterhouse

4 Jungle

5 DON BROCO

6 Paul McCartney

7 Against The Current

8 Melanie Martinez

9 Pulp

10 The Snuts

Middling week but another good tune from Florence Road after really enjoying their BJSC entry. Deserves the vote for the bunny visualiser alone tbh x