WhoOdyssey

It’s definitely more alternative than Radio X, see the list of songs in the first page. But you still get a lot of the usual artists too.

Nice to see some old Luke Combs songs enter, he’s in the middle of a UK stadium tour. 3 shows at Wembley Stadium next weekend.

Yep! Well, BBC Sounds-only though.

And The New Abnormal really gave them a huge boost of popularity - ‘The Adult Are Talking’ is their most streamed song on Spotify overall now! However the new album hasn’t been received well by fans, so we’ll see…

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

Viral!

I'll leave open for a bit longer to hopefully get a few more votes and break the tie!

+5: Three Lions +4: Choosin' Texas +3: Rein Me In +2: Talk To You +1: Wonderwall -1: I Knew It, I Knew You -2: stupid song -3: Dai Dai -4: Free Your Mind -5: hate that i made you love me

Final call for voters - we currently have a tie!

'In Motion' is out tomorrow.

New single out tomorrow:

Last day to vote!

She does The Piano on C4 so isn’t chained to one broadcaster, but there’s no chance she gives it another go anytime soon.

Big climb for Temper City up to a new peak of #26 today!

Launched today! Anyone listening? It's a "stream" with a couple of original shows each day including The Morning Session with Steve Lamacq and The Maccabees' Felix White. I imagine it'll be a little more alternative than Radio X, songs played so far are: The Black Keys - Gold On the Ceiling Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You Catfish and the Bottlemen - Kathleen The Charlatans - One to Another CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above Everything Everything - Violent Sun Gang of Four - Damaged Goods Green Day - Basket Case Jamie T - Sticks 'N' Stones The Libertines - Time for Heroes The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It MGMT - Time To Pretend Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star Pavement - Cut Your Hair Pixies - Debaser Primal Scream - Movin' On Up The Primitives - Thru The Flowers Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time? The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes Soft Cell - Tainted Love SPRINTS - Shaking Their Heads Stereophonics - More Life in a Tramp's Vest Suede - Beautiful Ones Terrorvision - Tequila (Mint Royale Remix) The Wedding Present - Brassneck Weezer - Buddy Holly Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses