The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2016
Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
---|---|---|
1 | Stressed out | Twenty One Pilots |
2 | Mama Knows | Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds |
3 | Hymn for the Weekend | Coldplay |
4 | Crazy for You | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
5 | Walk the Wire | Boy & Bear |
6 | Tell Only Lies | The Roosevelts |
7 | Lovers of the Sun | The Jayhawks |
8 | Yellow Eyes | Rayland Baxter |
9 | Cleopatra | The Lumineers |
10 | Depreston | Courtney Barnett |
11 | There Will Be Time | Mumford & Sons |
12 | Colors | Halsey |
13 | Lonesome No More | Nellie Pearl |
14 | Wow | Beck |
15 | Bad Boy | Tom Faia |
16 | What You Don't Do | Lianne La Havas |
17 | Dead Fox | Courtney Barnett |
18 | Stay in My Corner | The Arcs |
19 | Chains of Love | The Arcs |
20 | Limit of Love | Boy & Bear |
21 | Honey and Smoke | case/lang/veirs |
22 | Every Songbird Says | Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop |
23 | Let It out | Jonathan Tyler |
24 | Younger | Seinabo Sey |
25 | Girl from Conejo Valley | M. Ward |
26 | Party House | Billy Harvey |
27 | Gimme the Love | Jake Bugg |
28 | Once a Day (feat. Sonna Rele & Supa Dups) [Tequila Mix] | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
29 | Unsteady | X Ambassadors |
30 | Once a Day (feat. Sonna Rele & Supa Dups) | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
31 | Unknown Legend | Shovels & Rope |
32 | Weight of Love | The Black Keys |
33 | Outta My Mind | The Arcs |
34 | Aviation | The Last Shadow Puppets |
35 | The Devil is in Her Eyes | The Jayhawks |
36 | Ford Econoline | Chuck Prophet |
37 | Pedestrian at Best | Courtney Barnett |
38 | Put a Flower in Your Pocket | The Arcs |
39 | Real Love Baby | Father John Misty |
40 | Show Me Emotion (Radio Edit) | The Dunwells |
41 | The Gambler | The Both |
42 | Loner | The Young Presidents |
43 | Confession | M. Ward |
44 | Green and Gold | Lianne La Havas |
45 | Everything You Do (You Do for You) | The Arcs |
46 | First World Problem | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
47 | QACHINA | Damien Jurado |
48 | New Americana | Halsey |
49 | Got Nuffin | Spoon |
50 | Call Me | Imelda May |
51 | Little Baby | M. Ward |
52 | How | Daughter |
53 | Don't Stop (Color on the Walls) | Foster The People |
54 | Nighttime Girl | Cellars |
55 | Lover Come Back | City And Colour |
56 | Ophelia | The Lumineers |
57 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster The People |
58 | No Matter Where We Go | Whitney |
59 | Your Best American Girl | Mitski |
60 | California | onDeadWaves |
61 | Moon | Beth Orton |
62 | Do You | Spoon |
63 | Soft Scene (Live) | Autolux |
64 | Lupita | Israel Nash |
65 | The Last Hawk | Shovels & Rope |
66 | I'm Listening (Child's Theme) | M. Ward |
67 | Cold to See Clear | Nada Surf |
68 | Too Soon | DMA's |
69 | Radio | Sylvan Esso |
70 | Big Cig | The Hold Steady |
71 | I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore | Lucy Dacus |
72 | La Belle Fleur Sauvage | Lord Huron |
73 | Felony Glamour | Chuck Prophet |
74 | Avant Gardener | Courtney Barnett |
75 | Tiny | Dinosaur Jr. |
76 | Don't Matter | Kings of Leon |
77 | Poor Boy Long Way from Home | Jeff Buckley |
78 | Way We Won't | Grandaddy |
79 | Semaphore | Flock Of Dimes |
80 | Born Again Teen | Lucius |
81 | Get on Board | John Doe |
82 | Roller | Quilt |
83 | Angela | The Lumineers |
84 | In a Black out | Hamilton Leithauser |
85 | Family Tree | Kings of Leon |
86 | Heavydirtysoul | Twenty One Pilots |
87 | The Industry | Okkervil River |
88 | No Love Like Yours | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros |
89 | Don't Doubt | Blind Pilot |
90 | You and I | Margaret Glaspy |
91 | Walk to the One You Love | Twin Peaks |
92 | On Hold | The xx |
93 | Rock City | Kings of Leon |
94 | Maggie I've Been Searching for Our Son | Craig Finn |
95 | Capsized | Andrew Bird |
96 | Infamous | Basia Bulat |
97 | Drink of Water | John Doe |
98 | Rebel Heart | The Shelters |
99 | Atomic Number | case/lang/veirs |
100 | Don't Mean a Thing | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
101 | Long Way from Home | The Lumineers |
102 | Southern Bells | Langhorne Slim |
103 | I'm Shakin' | Jack White |
104 | Renegades | X Ambassadors |
105 | Half the City | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
106 | You Don't Get Me High Anymore | Phantogram |
107 | Supernaut | Brownout |
108 | I Have Been to the Mountain | Kevin Morby |
109 | Wish That You Were Here (From “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Original Motion Picture) | Florence + the Machine |
110 | Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces | The Jayhawks |
111 | I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) | The Dead Weather |
112 | I Know | Shovels & Rope |
113 | Emotions and Math | Margaret Glaspy |
114 | Bad Year for Rock and Roll | Chuck Prophet |
115 | Quiet Americans | Shearwater |
116 | Nobody Dies | Thao & The Get Down Stay Down |
117 | Easier Said | Sunflower Bean |
118 | Money Maker | The Black Keys |
119 | Trouble | Ray LaMontagne |
120 | The Castle | The Flaming Lips |
121 | Someone else is Getting in | Drowners |
122 | Pretty Roses in Your Hair | The Jayhawks |
123 | Kansas City | The New Basement Tapes |
124 | No Room in Frame | Death Cab for Cutie |
125 | The Stars over Your House | Billy Harvey |
126 | Downhearted | Molly Burch |
127 | Light of the Morning | Band of Skulls |
128 | Nothing to It | The New Basement Tapes |
129 | They Want My Soul | Spoon |
130 | Last | Shovels & Rope |
131 | Staring at the Ceiling (feat. James Petralli) | Echocentrics |
132 | Cora Cora | Dana Falconberry & Medicine Bow |
133 | Dead Alive | The Shins |
134 | Love Interruption | Jack White |
135 | Lazaretto | Jack White |
136 | Fool | Nadine Shah |
137 | Sweet Reward | John Doe |
138 | The Way We Get by | Spoon |
139 | Small Talk | Lily & Madeleine |
140 | Patience | Shovels & Rope |
141 | Missionary Ridge | Shovels & Rope |
142 | Strangers | Shovels & Rope |
143 | Sleep on the Floor | The Lumineers |
144 | The Day | The Black Angels |
145 | I Lived | OneRepublic |
146 | Counting Stars | OneRepublic |
147 | Believe | Mumford & Sons |
148 | Look at What the Light Did Now | Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White |
149 | My Eyes | The Lumineers |
150 | In My Head | Tin Toy Cars |
151 | Dreams | Beck |
152 | Cruel World | Phantogram |
153 | Sex & Drugs | A Giant Dog |
154 | We'll Be Fine (feat. Sarah Lynn) | Wyatt Brewer |
155 | No Other Heart | Mac DeMarco |
156 | When You're Gone | Amanda Shires |
157 | Ain't No Rest for the Wicked | Cage the Elephant |
158 | Humbug Mountain Song | Fruit Bats |
159 | Blame It on Me | George Ezra |
160 | TV Set | Spoon |
161 | Peaches | The Roosevelts |
162 | Spanish Mary | The New Basement Tapes |
163 | Liars in the State of New York | A. Sinclair |
164 | Mystery | Boxed In |
165 | Hey Hey Hey | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
166 | Behind the Armory | case/lang/veirs |
167 | Pocket Change | Rob Baird |
168 | Absolute Loser | Fruit Bats |
169 | Belly of the Beast | The Roosevelts |
170 | PTP | Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears |
171 | Velvet Ditch | The Arcs |
172 | Birmingham | Shovels & Rope |
173 | You Are My Home | Amanda Shires |
174 | Song for a Flower | Lucas Chaisson |
175 | This is Life | The Roosevelts |
176 | Get Up, Get on | Jill Andrews |
177 | Invisible Man | Shovels & Rope |
178 | This Ride | Shovels & Rope |
179 | Towers | Bon Iver |
180 | Fever | The Black Keys |
181 | Down to the Bone | The Legendary Shack Shakers |
182 | San Andreas Fault Line Blues | Shovels & Rope |
183 | Telluride | The Lone Bellow |
184 | My Lord | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
185 | Tear the Roof off | Sarah Potenza |
186 | Harmless | Amanda Shires |
187 | Give It Time | The Mynabirds |
188 | I Will Wait | Mumford & Sons |
189 | Rabbit Rabbit | My Jerusalem |
190 | Mercy Me | Rob Baird |
191 | Henry McCarty | The Westies |
192 | Soothing | Laura Marling |
193 | Here in Spirit | Jim James |
194 | Georgia Stars | case/lang/veirs |
195 | Budapest | George Ezra |
196 | Ain't It Easy | The Congress |
197 | When I've Got the Time | The Congress |
198 | Only Love | Jeremy Nail |
199 | Short Movie | Laura Marling |
200 | Babel | Mumford & Sons |
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