WhoOdyssey

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: Lana Del Rey - First Light [7] Kodaline - We Were Only Young [4] sombr - Potential [3] Cassyette - Oops (it's a bad idea) [2] MUNA - Wannabeher [2] ROSALÍA - Focu 'Ranni [2] Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground [1] M.I.A. (feat. Kala) - Sacred Heart [1] Hard-Fi - Looking For Fun [0] The Pretty Reckless - Love Me [0] N/A [0] Tiebreak results: The Strokes - Going Shopping [12] Cruz Beckham - waste your pain [6] N/A [4] Total votes: 22 Here are this week's contenders: Beck - Ride Lonesome Blossoms - Joke About Divorce Foo Fighters - Window Lucy Dacus - Planting Tomatoes Malcolm Todd - I Saw Your Face mgk (feat. Fred Durst) - FIX UR FACE Muse - Cryogen Noah Kahan - Doors Pulp - Open Strings Suki Waterhouse - Tiny Raisin 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

It did make me laugh at the end when Ant closed the show with “thank you all for joining us, it’s been a blast” - and then you could fairly hear him mutter “has it?” 😂

It’ll certainly be Noah Kahan or Foo Fighters at #1 this week.

I’m surprised they didn’t try and move on when Jimmy started mentioning the contract stuff - poor “Olly”!

All kicking off tonight! Feels like something straight out of the 2000s. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Ant & Dec get so heated.

Forgot about them! Could be close... My money would be on Noah though.

Noah will easily be #1 I think, at least 30k+ sales.

The best of the 3 so far for me!

Crazy stuff! No sign of it over here yet in the main charts, but it’s high on the Spotify UK viral chart & the Apple Music UK rock chart.

Vinyl B-side 'Open Strings' is on all platforms now:

Last day to vote!

It’s climbing the Apple Music rock chart, it hasn’t updated since about midday though.

‘Cryogen’ is out on Friday!

It is!

Banger alert! It’ll be interesting to see how it does.

More votes please!

Love this!

New single ‘Joke About Divorce’ is Radio 1’s Hottest Record tomorrow!

Video for 'Find Out The Hard Way':

+5: Babydoll +4: White Keys +3: Dracula +2: Homewrecker +1: Rein Me In -1: American Girls -2: iloveitiloveitiloveit -3: FEVER DREAM -4: Lush Life -5: Man I Need

Out on Friday! I presume Morgan’s the lead artist as Ella’s just released her album, perhaps a deluxe is on the way soon though.

Up to #51 this week!

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: Cruz Beckham - waste your pain [4] The Strokes - Going Shopping [4] Evanscence - Who Will You Follow [2] Royel Otis - Sweet Hallelujah [2] Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive [1] Lykke Li - Sick Of Love [1] South Arcade - SUPERMAN [1] Enter Shikari - LOSE YOUR SELF [0] Foo Fighters - Of All People [0] M.I.A. - EVERYTHING [0] Total votes: 15 It's a tie! Here are this week's contenders: Cassyette - Oops (it's a bad idea) Hard-Fi - Looking For Fun Kodaline - We Were Only Young Lana Del Rey - First Light Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground M.I.A. (feat. Kala) - Sacred Heart MUNA - Wannabeher The Pretty Reckless - Love Me ROSALÍA - Focu 'Ranni sombr - Potential Tiebreak: Cruz Beckham - waste your pain 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 Week 15: TBC

Nice to see that Cameron Whitcomb song enter. We seem to have more Country hits than UK Rap these days - that would've seemed crazy just a few years ago!

This is a good one 😂