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:

Everything Everything - Poison Pop [5]

Christine and the Queens - Rendez-vous in your arms [4]

Royal Blood - Mother Never Told You [2]

Sam Fender - You Can't Always Get What You Want [2]

Lizzy McAlpine - The Wheel [1]

Rex Orange County (feat. Brendan Yates) - Elvis [1]

Sufjan Stevens - On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better) [1]

Cage The Elephant - Make It Easy [0]

DMA'S - Best Life [0]

Tiebreak results:

CHVRCHES - Overthinker [9]

The Big Moon - You Remind Me That I'm Dying (and that it's good to be alive) [3]

Total votes: 17

Here are this week's contenders:

Bullet For My Valentine (feat. Will Ramos) - I Don't Trust Tomorrow

Ethel Cain & Robin Carolan - Wynter Waxeth

Fall Out Boy - ACES

Friendly Fires - Gold Dust

Gang of Youths - Benny's Video

Jake Bugg - When The Night

Kingfishr - Weight Of The Feather

Simple Minds - Elysium

South Arcade - SplitScreen

U2 (feat. Dolly Parton) - Torn

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: Queens of the Stone Age - Easy Street

Week 30: Charli xcx - Camera

Week 31: Rachel Chinouriri - One song away from crying
Week 32: The Big Moon - Fun

Week 33: Phoebe Bridgers - I Can't Wait

Week 34: Fontaines D.C. - Marianne

Week 35: Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy

Week 36: Fat Dog - Call It What You Want

Week 37: Working Men's Club - Devout

Week 38: beabadoobee - Write Me A Letter

Week 39: CHVRCHES - Roses

Week 40: Fontaines D.C. - Tongue
Week 41: Cameron Winter - If You Turn Back Now [Live at Carnegie Hall]

Week 42: Fontaines D.C. & ROSALÍA - Where Is Gone?

Week 43: Hot Chip - Random Violence

Week 44: CHVRCHES - Overthinker

Week 45: Everything Everything - Poison Pop

Went for Gang of Youths this week!