iTunes Top 40 Alternative Country Songs Chart

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: 2026-10-08