The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Love International | Khruangbin |
| 2 | Sadness As a Gift | Adrianne Lenker |
| 3 | Damage Gets Done | Hozier |
| 4 | Mustang | Kings of Leon |
| 5 | Hole in My Head | Laura Jane Grace |
| 6 | Always / Never | STRFKR |
| 7 | Desire Path | Vera Sola |
| 8 | Starburster | Fontaines D.C. |
| 9 | Supersad | Suki Waterhouse |
| 10 | Beautiful People (Stay High) | The Black Keys |
| 11 | Hell N Back (feat. Summer Walker) [Bonus Track] | Bakar |
| 12 | Act Natural | Margaret Glaspy |
| 13 | Sexy to Someone | Clairo |
| 14 | Dancer | IDLES |
| 15 | Piranhanana | Shovels & Rope |
| 16 | Burial Ground | The Decemberists |
| 17 | Right Back to It (feat. MJ Lenderman) | Waxahatchee |
| 18 | April | Local Natives |
| 19 | Say It Like You Mean It | Sleater-Kinney |
| 20 | Kiss Ur Face Forever | Orla Gartland |
| 21 | Happiness | The Heavy Heavy |
| 22 | Talk to Me | The Record Company |
| 23 | Days Move Slow | Bully |
| 24 | We Were Never Alive | Brigitte Calls Me Baby |
| 25 | You Never Know | Iron & Wine |
| 26 | Capricorn | Vampire Weekend |
| 27 | Serene King | Guided By Voices |
| 28 | Walk Through Fire (feat. Tony Allen) | Yannis & The Yaw |
| 29 | Chaise Longue | Wet Leg |
| 30 | Lose | Boeckner |
| 31 | Alone | The Cure |
| 32 | Payback | Aaron Frazer |
| 33 | Mother Nature | MGMT |
| 34 | Old Tape (feat. ADAM GRANDUCIEL) | Lucius |
| 35 | Up All Night (feat. the Lumineers & Noah Kahan) | James Bay |
| 36 | Luna | Wisp |
| 37 | Run Your Mouth | The Marías |
| 38 | Dance on Mondays | The Record Company |
| 39 | Feels Alright | Spoon |
| 40 | Blue Tuesday | Francis of Delirium |
| 41 | Ill Times | GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith |
| 42 | Kinky | bby |
| 43 | Wild | Spoon |
| 44 | Lose You (feat. Soccer Mommy) | Bully |
| 45 | High Horse (feat. KT Tunstall & Peaches) | Deap Vally |
| 46 | Gaslighter | Skinner |
| 47 | Cherrybomb | Dan Auerbach |
| 48 | Stand by My Girl | Dan Auerbach |
| 49 | 2 U's | Rare Americans |
| 50 | Milk & Honey | Rare Americans |
| 51 | My Fun | Suki Waterhouse |
| 52 | Condensation | Sports Team |
| 53 | Wall of Eyes | The Smile |
| 54 | XXX | Blk Odyssy |
| 55 | Lonsdale Slipons | The Bug Club |
| 56 | Hello | Girl and Girl |
| 57 | Dramamine | Middle Kids |
| 58 | Bon Bon | Fcukers |
| 59 | Be Yourself | Wilder Woods |
| 60 | Like I Say (I Runaway) | Nilufer Yanya |
| 61 | Lost | Soccer Mommy |
| 62 | Wild God | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
| 63 | Motel #27 | The Velveteers |
| 64 | Patterns | Laura Marling |
| 65 | Big Air | Office Dog |
| 66 | Highway | Lewis OfMan |
| 67 | Bittersweet | LP Giobbi |
| 68 | Entwined (Street Light Buzz) | Metz |
| 69 | Charmer and the Snake | The Velveteers |
| 70 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon |
| 71 | Dance with a Stranger | Lake Street Dive |
| 72 | Want | Dua Saleh |
| 73 | My Only Love | Porij |
| 74 | Bells and Whistles | Bright Eyes |
| 75 | Disinfectant | Peter Perrett |
| 76 | Ballet Dancers (Never Love Again) | Francis of Delirium |
| 77 | Little Chaos | Orla Gartland |
| 78 | Fever Pitch | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 79 | Hypnotic | Dead Sara |
| 80 | Sentence I | Font |
| 81 | Plastic Pyramid | Omni |
| 82 | Afterlife | Sharon Van Etten |
| 83 | Break My Baby | Kaleo |
| 84 | Strange Neighbour | Folly Group |
| 85 | Twist and Turn | Cardinals |
| 86 | Hangman | West 22nd |
| 87 | Godhead | Garbage |
| 88 | Bella Donna | The Black Moods |
| 89 | Hands Up to the Sky | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 90 | A Fragile Thing | The Cure |
| 91 | Bored | Waxahatchee |
| 92 | Lip | Mama Zu |
| 93 | Hey Lou | Liz Phair |
| 94 | My Room | Ty Segall |
| 95 | Can’t Believe We're Here | J Mascis |
| 96 | En Forma | Hinds |
| 97 | Poverty of Wires | Big Bill |
| 98 | Plover | Variety |
| 99 | Tejano Blue | Cigarettes After Sex |
| 100 | She's Leaving You | MJ Lenderman |
| 101 | Good Together | Lake Street Dive |
| 102 | Diamond Hands | Jane Leo |
| 103 | Lie 95 | Bartees Strange |
| 104 | Dark Matter | Pearl Jam |
| 105 | Skin in the Game | Slowdive |
| 106 | Perfume | The Dare |
| 107 | Sunshine | The Black Moods |
| 108 | Magnetic | Tunde Adebimpe |
| 109 | Fast Car | Tracy Chapman |
| 110 | The Men Who Rule the World | Garbage |
| 111 | Come Down | Bayonne |
| 112 | Jamcod | The Jesus And Mary Chain |
| 113 | Mood Ring | Dehd |
| 114 | The Moon is in the Wrong Place | Shannon & The Clams |
| 115 | Crashing Through | Friko |
| 116 | This is Nowhere | The Black Keys |
| 117 | Impressively Average | Brigitte Calls Me Baby |
| 118 | Stubborn Love | The Lumineers |
| 119 | Should Be Easy | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers |
| 120 | Wasterpiece | The Kills |
| 121 | Zero Sum | The Smile |
| 122 | Candy and Her Friends (feat. Lil Noid) | The Black Keys |
| 123 | Pushback Blues | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers |
| 124 | Alesis | Mk.gee |
| 125 | Audacious | Franz Ferdinand |
| 126 | Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley |
| 127 | Broken Man | St. Vincent |
| 128 | What Now | Brittany Howard |
| 129 | No Face Blues | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers |
| 130 | Give Me One Reason | Tracy Chapman |
| 131 | The Cave | Mumford & Sons |
| 132 | I Love You, Always | Tommy Prine |
| 133 | This Far South | Tommy Prine |
| 134 | One of a Kind | The Heavy Heavy |
| 135 | Coffee | Hinds |
| 136 | Holocene | Bon Iver |
| 137 | Dead Sea | The Lumineers |
| 138 | Chateau | Angus & Julia Stone |
| 139 | Roll Away Your Stone | Mumford & Sons |
| 140 | Some Things | Tommy Prine |
| 141 | Boyhood | Tommy Prine |
| 142 | Crashing Again | Tommy Prine |
| 143 | Cash Carter Hill | Tommy Prine |
| 144 | I Bleed for You | Human Drama |
| 145 | Dying in a Moment of Splendor | Human Drama |
| 146 | Tears | Human Drama |
| 147 | Look into a Strangers Eyes | Human Drama |
| 148 | My Skin | Human Drama |
| 149 | Ways and the Wounds | Human Drama |
| 150 | Blue | Human Drama |
| 151 | Voices | Human Drama |
| 152 | Father Sing | Human Drama |
| 153 | Death of an Angel | Human Drama |
| 154 | Sexy Lemon | Freak Slug |
| 155 | Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash) | The National |
| 156 | On the Game | The Black Keys |
| 157 | Roll with It | The Record Company |
| 158 | Sweet Talk | Iron & Wine |
| 159 | Don't Let Me Go | The Black Keys |
| 160 | All I Really Wanna Do | Devon Gilfillian |
| 161 | Pistol | Cigarettes After Sex |
| 162 | Hotline | bby |
| 163 | Highlands | Middle Kids |
| 164 | Want You | Blk Odyssy |
| 165 | Die for Me (feat. Lil Yachty) | Jean Dawson |
| 166 | In Front of Me Now | Nada Surf |
| 167 | Paper Crown (feat. Beck & Juicy J) | The Black Keys |
| 168 | Because You're Mine | The Heavy Heavy |
| 169 | Castle Door | Grandmaster |
| 170 | Lone Star Lake | Waxahatchee |
| 171 | Break Me Down | Yukimi |
| 172 | Better Not Tell You | Lake Street Dive |
| 173 | Too Easy | Brigitte Calls Me Baby |
| 174 | Anyone's Game | Iron & Wine |
| 175 | Queen of the City | Ripe |
| 176 | Hopeless | Rosali |
| 177 | Take Me to the River | Talking Heads |
| 178 | Camp Don't Count | The American Analog Set |
| 179 | Grocery Store | Carter Brady |
| 180 | I Don't | Brittany Howard |
| 181 | Crowbar | Waxahatchee |
| 182 | Feel | The Heavy Heavy |
| 183 | May Ninth | Khruangbin |
| 184 | Born to the Morning | The Decemberists |
| 185 | Instead | Carter Brady |
| 186 | OMG | Suki Waterhouse |
| 187 | Manning Fireworks | MJ Lenderman |
| 188 | Party on the Roof | Lake Street Dive |
| 189 | Can I Sit Next to You | Spoon |
| 190 | Ground Level | The Mountain Goats |
| 191 | Setting Sun | Pearl Jam |
| 192 | It's Alive! | Ratboys |
| 193 | Walking at a Downtown Pace | Parquet Courts |
| 194 | Miracle Sun | The Heavy Heavy |
| 195 | The Line | Vera Sola |
| 196 | Cherry | The Heavy Heavy |
| 197 | America Burning | Shinedown |
| 198 | The Dove, the Shrew & the Raccoon | Ismay |
| 199 | Eddie My Love | Brigitte Calls Me Baby |
| 200 | Long White Veil | The Decemberists |
| 201 | Bas Jan Ader | Bright Eyes |
| 202 | Ice Cold | Waxahatchee |
| 203 | Oh No! | The Decemberists |
| 204 | Lovestruck | The Heavy Heavy |
| 205 | Dream Job | Yard Act |
| 206 | Actual Daydream | Kings of Leon |
| 207 | Take My Love | The Lone Bellow |
| 208 | Another Good Year for the Roses | Kurt Vile |
| 209 | All in Good Time | Iron & Wine |
| 210 | Arrow | The Head and The Heart |
| 211 | Get Around | Lake Street Dive |
| 212 | Murder at the 18th St. Garage | The Mountain Goats |
| 213 | Only Love Matters | The Black Keys |
| 214 | 103 | The Kills |
| 215 | Doubt | Slow Pulp |
| 216 | 911 | Waterbaby |
| 217 | Model, Actress, Whatever | Suki Waterhouse |
| 218 | Water Underground | Real Estate |
| 219 | Sinner | The Last Dinner Party |
| 220 | We're Talking | Carter Brady |
| 221 | Late Night Temptations | Carter Brady |
| 222 | Evil Spawn | Waxahatchee |
| 223 | Going in Circles | Gift |
| 224 | Gen-X Cops | Vampire Weekend |
| 225 | The Shot | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers |
| 226 | Seats at the Bar | Lake Street Dive |
| 227 | Maybe Baby | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers |
| 228 | Yard | Slow Pulp |
| 229 | They Want My Soul | Spoon |
| 230 | Eucalyptus | The National |
| 231 | Negative Space | Queens of the Stone Age |
| 232 | Defense | Panda Bear |
| 233 | That's How I'm Feeling | Jack White |
| 234 | Stranger Danger | Lucius |
| 235 | I Don't Know You | Mannequin Pussy |
| 236 | Queen | Perfume Genius |
| 237 | Scared of Fear | Pearl Jam |
| 238 | Won't Tell | Pearl Jam |
| 239 | The Trench Coat Museum | Yard Act |
| 240 | I Just Want to Wake Up with You | Helado Negro |
| 241 | Mourir Demain | Corridor |
| 242 | Inside out | Spoon |
| 243 | First Caress | Spoon |
| 244 | Ocean | Rogue Wave |
| 245 | On Tonight | Rosali |
| 246 | Hills on Fire | Rosali |
| 247 | Live Till I Die | The Black Keys |
| 248 | Big Time Nothing | St. Vincent |
| 249 | Dominoes | Mary Timony |
| 250 | Mon Argent | Corridor |
| 251 | Buddhist Pete | Holy Wave |
| 252 | Fresh Tattoo | The Mountain Goats |
| 253 | Do I Have to Talk You into It | Spoon |
| 254 | Lon Bella | Damien Jurado |
| 255 | Moving on | Explosions In The Sky |
| 256 | Nowhere to Run | Kings of Leon |
| 257 | Don't Go to the Woods | The Decemberists |
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