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 (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Hush [5]

sombr - My Body Isn't Ready [4]

Charli xcx - Wink Wink [2]

Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys [2]

beabadoobee - Sun Has Set [1]

Brandon Flowers - Plans [1]

Kasabian - SUPERPOWERS [1]

Bring Me The Horizon - Dehumanized [0]

The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover [0]

Yard Act - New Beginnings [0]

Total votes: 16

Here are this week's contenders:

Against The Current - Always You & I

The Big Moon - Gravity

Bloc Party - Love Bombs

DMA'S - Killing Time

Fat Dog - Cancel Me (I'm Tired)

Marmozets - Closer To You

Shed Seven - Stand Together
Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue - These Alarms

Westside Cowboy - Pin Up Boys

Wolf Alice - Gospel Oak

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

Week 15: The Strokes - Going Shopping

Week 16: Lana Del Rey - First Light

Week 17: Blossoms - Joke About Divorce

Week 18: DMA'S - Heatin Park

Week 19: Lykke Li - Happy Now

Week 20: Mystery Jets - Black Sage

Week 21: Lola Young - From Down Here

Week 22: Jungle - The Wave

Week 23: Evanescence - Tell Me When You've Had Enough

Week 24: Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith - what's wrong with me

Week 25: FKA twigs (feat. Lil Yachts) - On Your Mind

Week 26: Muse (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Hush

Snow Patrol x Kylie

Fat Dog

would've gone for Rico Nasty's Tuesday release x