Here are the 20 hottest new alternative songs of the week, compiled from dozens of new music lists. If you have a suggestion for a list that should be part of the panel, please comment.
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | SONG |
| 1 | 16 | Catfish and the Bottlemen - Soundcheck |
| 2 | 1 | The Lumineers - Ophelia |
| 3 | 8 | Bear Hands - 2AM |
| 4 | 2 | The Strumbellas - Spirits |
| 5 | 3 | Andrew Bird - Capsized |
| 6 | 14 | DREAMERS - Drugs |
| 7 | NEW | Death Cab for Cutie - Good Help |
| 8 | NEW | The Virginmarys - Motherless Land |
| 9 | 17 | The Unlikely Candidates - Your Love Could Start A War |
| 10 | 5 | Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old |
| 11 | NEW | Jake Bugg - Gimme the Love |
| 12 | NEW | Kaleo - Way Down We Go |
| 13 | RE-ENTRY | Foals - Mountain At My Gates |
| 14 | RE-ENTRY | Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - No Love Like Yours |
| 15 | RE-ENTRY | Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream |
| 16 | RE-ENTRY | Iggy Pop - Gardenia |
| 17 | NEW | Wild Belle - Throw Down Your Guns |
| 18 | NEW | Spirit Animal - Regular World |
| 19 | NEW | Mayer Hawthorne - Love Like That |
| 20 | NEW | Atlas Genius - Stockholm |
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