The Top Adult Alternative Songs on iTunes This Week
The iTunes Top 40 Adult Alternative Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of adult alternative — sophisticated, guitar-driven alternative music with wide crossover appeal. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 adult alternative singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.
The genre has been shaped by visionaries like artists like Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Hozier, and Brandi Carlile, whose work defines what adult alternative can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.
Discover what adult alternative sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Adult Alternative Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-03-14
1.
No Rain
Blind Melon
September 14, 1992
2.
Wild Thing
X
December 31, 1982
3.
Ride
The Vines
January 1, 2004
4.
Sad Song (Mauldeth Road West Demo, Nov' 92)
Oasis
August 30, 2024
5.
Change
Blind Melon
September 14, 1992
6.
Thanks Again
Cigarettes @ Sunset
March 28, 2025
7.
What He Wrote
Laura Marling
January 1, 2010
8.
Go Time
Outskrts
March 6, 2026
9.
Devil's Spoke
Laura Marling
January 1, 2010
10.
Champagne Supernova (Unplugged)
Oasis
October 3, 2025
11.
Ateş and Moon
Ekaterina Shelehova & Furkan Usta
June 2, 2023
12.
Wonderwall (Unplugged)
Oasis
October 3, 2025
13.
Sailing (Live)
Christopher Cross
March 8, 2013
14.
Ghosts
Laura Marling
December 2, 2007
15.
(It's Good) To Be Free (Remastered)
Oasis
November 2, 1998
16.
Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live at Knebworth, 10 August '96)
Oasis
November 19, 2021
17.
Where Is My Mind?
Vitamin String Quartet
October 5, 2004
18.
Sex On Fire (triple j Like A Version)
Folk Bitch Trio
October 2, 2025
19.
Flying On The Ground
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
June 7, 2021
20.
Don't Look Back In Anger (Live at Knebworth, 11 August '96)
Oasis
November 19, 2021
21.
(It's Good) To Be Free (Live For Teenage Cancer Trust)
Noel Gallagher
March 15, 2009
22.
Teenage Summer
Crowded House
April 13, 2024
23.
We're Gonna Get There In The End
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
June 2, 2023
24.
The Masterplan (Abbey Road Sessions)
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
December 12, 2023
25.
Think Of A Number (Pet Shop Boys Magic Eye 12" Remix)
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds & Pet Shop Boys
