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:

Brandon Flowers - Paradise [2]

Echo & The Bunnymen - Brussels Is Haunted [2]

Queens of the Stone Age - Easy Street [2]

Steve Lacy - doom [2]

beabadoobee - Switchblade [1]

Bella Kay - i deserve better. [1]

Nickelback (feat. John 5) - Rattle The Cage

Beck - In The Night [0]

The Lathums - Vice Versa [0]

Mystery Jets - Flea Joint [0]

It's a tie!

Tiebreak results:

Jungle - Someday, Somewhere [8]

U2 - Street Of Dreams [4]

Total votes: 14

Here are this week's contenders:

Beartooth - Eyes Closed

Charli xcx - Camera

Johnny Marr – Ophelia
Lizzy McAlpine - The light in the painting
Paris Paloma - Pre-Raphaelite

Protomartyr - Sounds We Cannot Hear

Martin Garrix & U2 - Fireflies

The Snuts - In Motion

The Strokes - Lonely in the Future

WILLLOW - Bone Collector

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 Yachty) - On Your Mind

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

Week 27: Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue - These Alarms

Week 28: Jungle - Someday, Somwhere

Week 29: TBC

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