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: 2026-06-20
1.
Harvest Moon (feat. AJ Lee & Blue Summit)
The Brothers Comatose
January 29, 2022
2.
Diamonds And Rust
Joan Baez
April 1, 1975
3.
labour
Paris Paloma
March 23, 2023
4.
Who Do You Love?
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
January 1, 1978
5.
Scotch and Soda
The Kingston Trio
June 1, 1958
6.
Peace Somehow
Avi Kaplan
February 21, 2025
7.
Something's Got Hold of Me
Alice Rose Lyn
June 5, 2026
8.
Highland Girl
Nathan Evans
November 8, 2024
9.
Turtle Island
Renee Christine
May 23, 2025
10.
Gonna Find Home Somewhere
Alice Rose Lyn
June 19, 2026
11.
California Stars
Billy Bragg & Wilco
June 23, 1998
12.
For Our Sons
The Hunts
June 18, 2026
13.
The Dream Was The Cure
Jonathan Hultén
January 31, 2025
14.
All Souls Night
Loreena McKennitt
March 7, 1991
15.
The Mountain Song
Tophouse
October 14, 2022
16.
Rule #34
Fish in a Birdcage
April 1, 2024
17.
Lehigh Valley
Renee Christine
September 26, 2025
18.
In Love with the Quiet
Rising Appalachia
June 12, 2026
19.
Jonny
Faye Webster
May 24, 2019
20.
Till The Lights Go Out In Vegas
Colyer
January 31, 2025
21.
Snow
Loreena McKennitt
January 1, 1987
22.
Bigger Picture
Sarah Julia
February 13, 2026
23.
Vampire
Oliver Hazard
November 14, 2025
24.
take a moment to breathe.
normal the kid
October 22, 2021
25.
Kingston
Faye Webster
November 15, 2018
26.
O' Death (feat. Lauren Paley & Colm R. McGuinness) [Haunted Version]
Bobby Bass
November 8, 2022
27.
Old Pine
Ben Howard
September 30, 2011
28.
Give Yourself to Love (Live)
Kate Wolf
June 14, 1983
29.
Right Side of My Neck
Faye Webster
May 24, 2019
30.
Hold On
Oliver Hazard
January 30, 2026
31.
peach tree
Ethan Regan
September 26, 2024
32.
'cello Song (Take 4, January 4th 1969)
Nick Drake
July 25, 2025
33.
I Will Be Blessed
Ben Howard
September 30, 2011
34.
Would Be Better
Ganavya & Sam Amidon
December 12, 2025
35.
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (BBC Session - John Peel 11/9/73)
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