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: Jungle - Someday, Somewhere [5] U2 - Street Of Dreams [5] Courteeners - Plus One Forever [1] Nothing But Thieves - Stray Dogs [1] ROLE MODEL - Joy [1] Green Day - I'm Never Gonna R.I.P. [0] The Last Dinner Party - Knocking at the Sky [0] Malcolm Todd - I Just Got Mad [0] The Rolling Stones - Mr Charm [0] Wet Leg - hi from me Total votes: 13 It's a tie! Here are this week's contenders: beabadoobee - Switchblade Beck - In The Night Bella Kay - i deserve better. Brandon Flowers - Paradise Echo & The Bunnymen - Brussels Is Haunted The Lathums - Vice Versa Mystery Jets - Flea Joint Nickelback (feat. John 5) - Rattle The Cage Queens of the Stone Age - Easy Street Steve Lacy - doom 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: TBC

Need Grandad Roberts and His Son Elvis to enter next time!

Really like this! Much better than the first single:

I like the idea of King Gizzard and their many albums/styles - but find a lot of their albums pretty boring.

Blossoms have now released an album every 2 years for a decade! Are there any other artists who have kept up with such a consistency for a decade+? 2016: Blossoms 2018: Cool Like You 2020: Foolish Loving Spaces 2022: Ribbon Around the Bomb 2024: Gary 2026: Songs from the Wedding Cake

Switchblade released a few days ago:

Very true - I imagine next year's will be the most hyped to date though, so wouldn't be surprised if it goes Top 40 tbh (if England do well again, of course).

Last day to vote!

Did Three Lions make an appearance when England won the Women’s Euros? It’ll be interesting to see how much impact the Women’s World Cup has on the chart next year, being the first tournament since England won the Euros and probably at a higher profile than ever.

His first new album since 2019 is out on 18th September! The previously-released title track and new single 'In The Night' are included:

Really loving this - my favourite single of theirs in quite some time!

Another bump for votes ;)

GK is only doing a "series of shows across the year, kicking off with an initial run on 10 September at 1pm for 6 weeks".

Yep: Lauren Layfield says: “Time to polish up those counting backwards skills - can’t wait to bring three full hours of the biggest songs in the UK back to Sundays with The Official Chart: First Look. “The Official Chart: First Look is the only one that counts AND it’s where you get to find out where Friday’s new releases have landed before anyone else. Come join us!”

March's 'Bones For The Crows' will be included on the album.

About 3 and a half years ago - it was November 2022’s Get Rollin’

New album out on 30th October! Lead single 'Rattle The Cage' is out now:

More votes please!

Closest thing I can see is Maneskin's Beggin' reached #1 there in 2021. And a few "alternative" songs by solo artists - Dominic Fike, Djo, Sombr, Olivia's Good 4 U.

They split up as a couple in Jan 2023, and lasted 3 more years as a music duo - so not a bad run really!

The main reason it’s declined is because England are using Wonderwall as their post-match song. Last time I was in America I heard Sweet Caroline at 3 sports games - none of them were the Red Sox!

Bring Me The Horizon’s album is a re-recording, so I assume it’ll chart separately to the original? That one got to #93 in 2006.

It’s 9 songs, 25 minutes - although two of them are “stripped” versions.

'Paradise' is out on Friday.

'Flea Joint' and 'Anaglypta' are out today - not sure why we need 5 songs already released from a 9-track album though!