The Top Alternative Folk Songs on iTunes This Week
The iTunes Top 40 Alternative Folk Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of alternative folk — folk music reimagined for contemporary ears — intimate songwriting meets indie production and lyrical boldness. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 alternative folk 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 Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Phoebe Bridgers, and Big Thief who have given folk a new generation of devotees, whose work defines what alternative folk 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 folk sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Alternative Folk Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-05-14
1.
labour
Paris Paloma
March 23, 2023
2.
Peace Somehow
Avi Kaplan
February 21, 2025
3.
The Good Guy
Valerie Broussard
March 13, 2026
4.
California Stars
Billy Bragg & Wilco
June 23, 1998
5.
The Mountain Song
Tophouse
October 14, 2022
6.
Flowers In The Water
Nathan Evans
August 16, 2024
7.
Till The Lights Go Out In Vegas
Colyer
January 31, 2025
8.
Promise
Ben Howard
September 30, 2011
9.
All That You Are
Bear's Den
November 17, 2021
10.
Highland Girl
Nathan Evans
November 8, 2024
11.
Who Do You Love?
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
January 1, 1978
12.
Arrow
The Head and the Heart
October 17, 2024
13.
Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
Billy Bragg & Wilco
June 23, 1998
14.
Diamonds And Rust
Joan Baez
April 1, 1975
15.
La Línea
Julieta Venegas & Yahritza Y Su Esencia
April 10, 2026
16.
peach tree
Ethan Regan
September 26, 2024
17.
Break My Heart Sweetly
John Moreland
January 1, 2013
18.
Her E Gul
Strane Kurdi
April 3, 2026
19.
Take Yo' Praise
Camille Yarbrough
January 1, 1975
20.
Across the Great Divide
Kate Wolf
July 1, 1981
21.
Old Man's Grace
Nathan Evans
January 3, 2025
22.
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Jack and Daisy
July 11, 2025
23.
En Melodía
Martina Pérez Cabrera & Luis Robisco
March 13, 2026
24.
Harvest Moon (feat. AJ Lee & Blue Summit)
The Brothers Comatose
January 29, 2022
25.
Old Pine
Ben Howard
September 30, 2011
26.
Reach Out of the Darkness
Friend & Lover
January 1, 1968
27.
Too Sweet
The Macarons Project
July 12, 2024
28.
O' Death (feat. Lauren Paley & Colm R. McGuinness) [Haunted Version]
Bobby Bass
November 8, 2022
29.
The Scotsman (Live At The Winfield National Flat Picking Festival)
Bryan Bowers
January 1, 1980
30.
Follow
Richie Havens
January 1, 1966
31.
If You Wanna Stop Me (You're Gonna Have to Kill Me)
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