The Top Alternative Country Songs on iTunes This Week
The iTunes Top 40 Alternative Country Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of alternative country — country music’s rebellious cousin — raw, honest, and uncompromising in its refusal to conform to Nashville formulas. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 alternative country 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 Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson who carry the alt-country torch, whose work defines what alternative country 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 alternative country sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Alternative Country Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-08-25
1.
Kick Rocks
Frost Renner
June 23, 2026
2.
Rain or Shine
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb
January 9, 2025
3.
Forever On Your Lips
Avery Roberson
June 8, 2022
4.
Dream On (Dark Country Cover)
Dragonheart
April 28, 2026
5.
Hummingbird
Shane Smith & the Saints
June 1, 2022
6.
I Am Yours, You Are Mine.
Joshua Slone
October 29, 2025
7.
(Make My) Country Rock [feat. Travis Tritt, Godsmack & Mick Mars]
Cory Marks, Travis Tritt & Godsmack
October 10, 2024
8.
Feel Something
Common Tribe
November 25, 2023
9.
Hills
KOOPS
April 3, 2026
10.
High and Sad (Franklin Jonas & The Byzantines and Noah Cyrus)
Franklin Jonas & The Byzantines & Noah Cyrus
June 24, 2026
11.
Shut Up and Dance
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb
January 24, 2025
12.
High Seas
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb
November 20, 2024
13.
Wolf Inside of Me
Knox Ransom
July 13, 2026
14.
Never Gonna Let You Go
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb
January 24, 2025
15.
Love Me Anyway (feat. Kat Hasty)
Twin Fin
July 10, 2026
16.
Lit Up
Cory Marks
December 6, 2024
17.
Bar Stool
Zac & George
January 13, 2023
18.
You
Avery Roberson
January 13, 2023
19.
You Drive Me Crazy
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb
January 24, 2025
20.
Rough Riders
Outpost Drive
May 30, 2025
21.
Singing for Our Supper
The Jamestown Brothers
March 6, 2019
22.
Si j'étais perdue (If I Needed You) [feat. Philémon Cimon]
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