Top 40 UK Alternative Songs

Chart updated: 4 minutes ago. Change calculated based on change over the last 21 hours, 44 minutes.

  • 1 Lola Young - Messy

    Re-entry

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  • 2 Sam Fender - People Watching

    No movement

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  • 3 Mumford & Sons - Rushmere

    New entry - released today!

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  • 4 Inhaler - A Question Of You

    New entry

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  • 5 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER

    Re-entry

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  • 6 Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE

    Down 1 place

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  • 7 Coldplay, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & TINI - WE PRAY

    Down 3 places

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  • 8 Bradley Simpson - Carpet Burn

    New entry - released 7 days ago

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  • 9 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

    Re-entry

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  • 10 Franz Ferdinand - Night Or Day

    Down 1 place

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  • 11 Radiohead - Creep

    Re-entry

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  • 12 Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars

    Re-entry

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  • 13 The Killers - Mr. Brightside

    Re-entry

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  • 14 Sam Fender - Wild Long Lie

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  • 15 LINKIN PARK - The Emptiness Machine

    Down 2 places

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  • 16 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

    Re-entry

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  • 17 Coldplay - feelslikeimfallinginlove

    Re-entry

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  • 18 Peter Doherty - Felt Better Alive

    Up 3 places

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  • 19 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You

    Re-entry

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  • 20 Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over

    Re-entry

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  • 21 The Wombats - Can't Say No

    Down 13 places

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  • 22 Imagine Dragons - Believer

    Re-entry

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  • 23 Tom Grennan - Higher

    Re-entry

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  • 24 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved

    Re-entry

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  • 25 Pixies - Que Sera Sera

    Re-entry

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  • 26 Doves - Cold Dreaming

    New entry

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  • 27 iyah may - Karmageddon

    Up 5 places

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  • 28 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

    Re-entry

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  • 29 Sam Fender - People Watching (Live At The O2 Arena)

    New entry - released today!

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  • 30 The xx - Intro

    Re-entry

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  • 31 Sharon Van Etten - Trouble

    Down 16 places

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  • 32 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

    Re-entry

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  • 33 Fat Dog - Peace Song

    New entry

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  • 34 R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

    Re-entry

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  • 35 Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)

    Re-entry

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  • 36 Coldplay - Viva La Vida

    Re-entry

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  • 37 Edwyn Collins - Knowledge

    New entry - released 2 days ago

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  • 38 Tones And I - Dance Monkey

    Re-entry

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  • 39 As It Is - Dial Tones X (feat. Holding Absence)

    New entry - released today!

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  • 40 The Rumjacks - Cold Like This (feat. Dropkick Murphys)

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