Here are the 20 hottest new alternative songs of the week ending June 26, 2016, compiled from over 90 new music lists. If you have a suggestion for a list that should be part of the panel, please comment.
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | TRACK |
| 1 | 1 | Bastille - Good Grief |
| 2 | 3 | Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore |
| 3 | 12 | Hozier - Better Love |
| 4 | NEW | Twenty One Pilots - Heathens |
| 5 | 2 | The Head and the Heart - All We Ever Knew |
| 6 | 5 | Beck - Wow |
| 7 | 4 | CHVRCHES ft. Hayley Williams - Bury It |
| 8 | NEW | Weathers - Happy Pills |
| 9 | 10 | Bat for Lashes - Sunday Love |
| 10 | NEW | Diarrhea Planet - Life Pass |
| 11 | NEW | James Bay - Best Fake Smile |
| 12 | 13 | The Strokes - Oblivius |
| 13 | 7 | Two Door Cinema Club - Are We Ready (Wreck) |
| 14 | 9 | Glass Animals - Life Itself |
| 15 | NEW | The Avalanches - Subways |
| 16 | 11 | The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra |
| 17 | NEW | Devendra Banhart - Middle Names |
| 18 | NEW | The Hunna - You and Me |
| 19 | 16 | Passenger - Somebody's Love |
| 20 | 17 | Elle King - Good Girls |
Watch this week's New Alternative 20 music video playlist