The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moody | Royel Otis |
| 2 | Metal | The Beths |
| 3 | Ankles | Lucy Dacus |
| 4 | I Want You (Fever) | Momma |
| 5 | Nothing I Need | Lord Huron |
| 6 | Catch These Fists | Wet Leg |
| 7 | Sugar in the Tank | Julien Baker & TORRES |
| 8 | Everybody Laughs | David Byrne |
| 9 | Wreck | Neko Case |
| 10 | It's Amazing to Be Young | Fontaines D.C. |
| 11 | Rushmere | Mumford & Sons |
| 12 | Afterlife | Sharon Van Etten |
| 13 | The Night Before | The Black Keys |
| 14 | Flower Moon | Durand Jones & The Indications |
| 15 | Gold Rush | Lucius |
| 16 | Gethsemane | Car Seat Headrest |
| 17 | Everybody Scream | Florence + the Machine |
| 18 | White Horses | Wolf Alice |
| 19 | Magnetic | Tunde Adebimpe |
| 20 | Stay in Your Lane | Courtney Barnett |
| 21 | Time Waited | My Morning Jacket |
| 22 | Arrow | The Head and The Heart |
| 23 | Bloom Baby Bloom | Wolf Alice |
| 24 | Cutthroat | Shame |
| 25 | Inept Apollo | Nation of Language |
| 26 | Don't Speak | Loaded Honey |
| 27 | Float (feat. Jim Adkins) | Jay Som |
| 28 | Electric Green Lambo | Dope Lemon |
| 29 | Spike Island | Pulp |
| 30 | What You Need | Jay Som |
| 31 | To Space | Kings of Leon |
| 32 | Knockin' Heart | Hamilton Leithauser |
| 33 | Heathcliff | Snocaps |
| 34 | Alone | The Cure |
| 35 | Shovel | Deep Sea Diver |
| 36 | BOYS with the CHARACTERISTICS of WOLVES | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
| 37 | Chateau Blues | Spoon |
| 38 | Guess I'm Fallin in Love | Spoon |
| 39 | I Like It I Like It | Moses Sumney |
| 40 | Magic of the Sale | Teethe |
| 41 | Switch over | Horsegirl |
| 42 | Ginkgo | Panchiko |
| 43 | Broken Glass | Neal Francis |
| 44 | Little Black Dress | Francis of Delirium |
| 45 | It's a Mirror | Perfume Genius |
| 46 | Orlando in Love | Japanese Breakfast |
| 47 | Same Old Song | The Lumineers |
| 48 | Break Up with Everything | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 49 | All in My Head | The Linda Lindas |
| 50 | Life Signs | Water From Your Eyes |
| 51 | Bai Lan (Let It Rot) | Jonas Wilson |
| 52 | Tanana | Portugal. The Man |
| 53 | Gózalo | The Animeros |
| 54 | What is the Reason for It? (feat. Hayley Williams) | David Byrne |
| 55 | Backseat Banton | Bartees Strange |
| 56 | Deadstick | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
| 57 | Country Brat | Patton Magee |
| 58 | Die Your Daughter | Susannah Joffe |
| 59 | I Forget (I’m So Young) | Sofie Royer |
| 60 | GRIN | Sophia Warren |
| 61 | After the Setting Sun | The Head and The Heart |
| 62 | Patterns | Laura Marling |
| 63 | Plover | Variety |
| 64 | Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation | jasmine.4.t |
| 65 | Get It | Cardinals |
| 66 | Enough | Jeff Tweedy |
| 67 | Cobra | Geese |
| 68 | Queen | Perfume Genius |
| 69 | Kinky | bby |
| 70 | Blame | Girl Tones |
| 71 | Condensation | Sports Team |
| 72 | You Are | LP Giobbi |
| 73 | The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks) | Gorillaz |
| 74 | Picture Window | Japanese Breakfast |
| 75 | Afterlife | (Sandy) Alex G |
| 76 | Caroline | Mumford & Sons |
| 77 | Disinfectant | Peter Perrett |
| 78 | World's Worst Girlfriend | Shura |
| 79 | Dance with a Stranger | Lake Street Dive |
| 80 | Squid Ink | My Morning Jacket |
| 81 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman |
| 82 | Ice Cream on the Beach | Annabelle Chairlegs |
| 83 | Rusty Mountain | Neko Case |
| 84 | Honest Man | Freak Slug |
| 85 | 12 Blown Tires | Tennis |
| 86 | Fast Car | Tracy Chapman |
| 87 | Anything to Get It | Blah Spa |
| 88 | Taxes | Geese |
| 89 | What's Left of Me | Neal Francis |
| 90 | Career Climbing | Yukimi |
| 91 | Stubborn Love | The Lumineers |
| 92 | Too Easy | Brigitte Calls Me Baby |
| 93 | Everyday Magic | My Morning Jacket |
| 94 | HEARTBREAK | Blk Odyssy |
| 95 | Ain't Nobody Making Me High | Bartees Strange |
| 96 | Crashing Again | Tommy Prine |
| 97 | Country | Penny & Sparrow |
| 98 | Automatic | The Lumineers |
| 99 | Feel | The Heavy Heavy |
| 100 | Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley |
| 101 | A Fragile Thing | The Cure |
| 102 | Holocene | Bon Iver |
| 103 | The Cave | Mumford & Sons |
| 104 | Babel | Mumford & Sons |
| 105 | Dead Sea | The Lumineers |
| 106 | Some Things | Tommy Prine |
| 107 | Boyhood | Tommy Prine |
| 108 | I Love You, Always | Tommy Prine |
| 109 | This Far South | Tommy Prine |
| 110 | Cash Carter Hill | Tommy Prine |
| 111 | Chaise Longue | Wet Leg |
| 112 | Model Behavior | Deerhoof |
| 113 | Lucy | Mt. Joy |
| 114 | Chateau | Angus & Julia Stone |
| 115 | Up All Night (feat. the Lumineers & Noah Kahan) | James Bay |
| 116 | Old Tape | Lucius |
| 117 | Iovi | Trees Inside Out |
| 118 | Die for It | My Morning Jacket |
| 119 | Good Honest Thief | Copperhead Six Project |
| 120 | Heart of the Restless Kind | Copperhead Six Project |
| 121 | It Ain't Easy Being Easy | Copperhead Six Project |
| 122 | One More Cup O' Joe | Copperhead Six Project |
| 123 | Our Love Song | Copperhead Six Project |
| 124 | Skeleton Lake (C'mon Let's All Go) | Copperhead Six Project |
| 125 | Steve's Hammer (For Pete) | Copperhead Six Project |
| 126 | The Greatest Sin | Copperhead Six Project |
| 127 | Idiot Days | Copperhead Six Project |
| 128 | People of Substance | Craig Finn |
| 129 | Mega Circuit | Japanese Breakfast |
| 130 | You're All I Got | The Lumineers |
| 131 | Battery Lane | Zack Keim |
| 132 | Storm | Free Range |
| 133 | Good Together | Lake Street Dive |
| 134 | Mama Don't | Ruen Brothers |
| 135 | Supersad | Suki Waterhouse |
| 136 | Help is on the Way | Lake Street Dive |
| 137 | Lose You (feat. Soccer Mommy) | Bully |
| 138 | Beautiful People (Stay High) | The Black Keys |
| 139 | Cherrybomb | Dan Auerbach |
| 140 | Days Move Slow | Bully |
| 141 | Talk to Me | The Record Company |
| 142 | Wild | Spoon |
| 143 | Feels Alright | Spoon |
| 144 | Charmer and the Snake | The Velveteers |
| 145 | High Horse (feat. KT Tunstall & Peaches) | Deap Vally |
| 146 | Gaslighter | Skinner |
| 147 | Motel #27 | The Velveteers |
| 148 | Dance on Mondays | The Record Company |
| 149 | Stand by My Girl | Dan Auerbach |
| 150 | Bikini | Caroline Rose |
| 151 | 2 U's | Rare Americans |
| 152 | Milk & Honey | Rare Americans |
| 153 | She's Leaving You | MJ Lenderman |
| 154 | Ativan | The Lumineers |
| 155 | Back It Up | Neal Francis |
| 156 | Yesterday’s Another Day | Mobley |
| 157 | My Lady of Mercy | The Last Dinner Party |
| 158 | 23's a Baby | Blondshell |
| 159 | Hardly | Free Range |
| 160 | Berghain | ROSALÍA |
| 161 | Rain and Fog | Strange Lot |
| 162 | I Believe in Love | Tyler Ballgame |
| 163 | Truth | Mumford & Sons |
| 164 | Half a Lifetime | My Morning Jacket |
| 165 | That's How I'm Feeling | Jack White |
| 166 | Celebrate | Heartworms |
| 167 | Extraordinary Wings | Heartworms |
| 168 | Just to Ask a Dance | Heartworms |
| 169 | What Do I Know | Deep Sea Diver |
| 170 | CCF (I'm Gonna Stay with You) | Car Seat Headrest |
| 171 | No Rain, No Flowers | The Black Keys |
| 172 | Old Tape (feat. ADAM GRANDUCIEL) | Lucius |
| 173 | So Long | The Lumineers |
| 174 | A*****e | The Lumineers |
| 175 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon |
| 176 | Fever Pitch | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 177 | Say It Like You Mean It | Sleater-Kinney |
| 178 | Hypnotic | Dead Sara |
| 179 | Lost | Soccer Mommy |
| 180 | Long After Midnight | Flock Of Dimes |
| 181 | Hands Up to the Sky | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 182 | Be Yourself | Wilder Woods |
| 183 | White Gloves Ii | Khruangbin |
| 184 | Father's Son | The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer |
| 185 | Wristwatch | MJ Lenderman |
| 186 | Out in the Open | My Morning Jacket |
| 187 | Roll Away Your Stone | Mumford & Sons |
| 188 | Flea | St. Vincent |
| 189 | The Bed, the Room, the Rain and You | Hinds |
| 190 | Bodies Laughing | The Smile |
| 191 | Billboard Heart | Deep Sea Diver |
| 192 | Sober | Bartees Strange |
| 193 | Perpetual Motion | Phantoms |
| 194 | Sunflowers | The Lumineers |
| 195 | Somebody New | Tunde Adebimpe |
| 196 | Manning Fireworks | MJ Lenderman |
| 197 | CPR | Wet Leg |
| 198 | Look into a Strangers Eyes | Human Drama |
| 199 | Blue | Human Drama |
| 200 | Father Sing | Human Drama |
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