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:

U2 - Song For Hal [4]

Arlo Parks - Beams [3]

Lambrini Girls - Cult of Celebrity [3]

Dermot Kennedy - Turnstile [1]

Dry Cleaning - Sliced by a Fingernail [1]

Kasabian - GREAT PRETENDER [1]

Metric - Crush Forever [1]

Weezer - Shine Again [1]

Bleachers - the van [0]

Jack White - G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs [0]

Total votes: 15

Here are this week's contenders:

Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive

Cruz Beckham - waste your pain

Enter Shikari - LOSE YOUR SELF

Evanscence - Who Will You Follow

Foo Fighters - Of All People

Lykke Li - Sick Of Love

M.I.A. - EVERYTHING

Royel Otis - Sweet Hallelujah

South Arcade - SUPERMAN

The Strokes - Going Shopping

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

Week 13: Jungle - Carry On

Week 14: U2 - Song For Hal

My personal rankings for Week 15;

1. Evanscence – Who Will You Follow

2. Enter Shikari – LOSE YOUR SELF

3. Royel Otis – Sweet Hallelujah

4. The Strokes – Going Fourteeners

5. Courteeners – The Luckiest Man Alive

6. Foo Fighters – Of All People

7. Cruz Beckham – waste your pain

8. M.I.A. – EVERYTHING

9. Lykke Li – Sick Of Love

10. South Arcade – SUPERMAN

Master Beckham all the way!

Lykke Li, but M.I.A. and The Strokes weren't far off.

Went for the Courteeners this week!

More votes please!

Cruz for me

Changed mine to the Strokes!

Last day to vote!

Final call for votes! We've not had as many as usual so far this week.

Someone vote for the Strokes PLEASE!

Anyone want to break the tie? 😀

I didn't particularly love either of the poll leaders. I went for South Arcade (I feel like I'm their biggest fan at this point: I love everything they've put out, pretty much 🤣), 'SUPERMAN' has really grown on me over the last couple of days after initially finding it less instant than some of their other songs!

I also love the new Evanescence song, so it was between those two really!