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: 2026-10-28
1.
labour
Paris Paloma
March 23, 2023
2.
Harvest Moon (feat. AJ Lee & Blue Summit)
The Brothers Comatose
January 29, 2022
3.
California Stars
Billy Bragg & Wilco
June 23, 1998
4.
Old Pine
Ben Howard
September 30, 2011
5.
Honey I
The Pairs
October 22, 2025
6.
Everything Ends
The Pairs
April 30, 2025
7.
Diamonds And Rust
Joan Baez
April 1, 1975
8.
Who Do You Love?
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
January 1, 1978
9.
The Cavalier
Jessica Willis Fisher
July 31, 2026
10.
All That You Are
Bear's Den
November 17, 2021
11.
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (BBC Session - John Peel 11/9/73)
Sandy Denny
January 1, 1973
12.
Self Aware Then Self Obsessed
The Pairs
September 3, 2025
13.
Good Bad Day
The Pairs
January 29, 2025
14.
Jolly Roving Tar
The Longest Johns
May 1, 2026
15.
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
February 25, 1972
16.
Arrow
The Head and the Heart
October 17, 2024
17.
Hold Down the Fort (feat. Andrea Gibson)
Chris Pureka
July 31, 2025
18.
Sloop John B
The Kingston Trio
June 1, 1958
19.
The Ghost In You
Robyn Hitchcock
August 26, 2014
20.
Early Mornin'
The Kingston Trio
June 1, 1959
21.
The Wise Man's Song (Original Theme Song from Small Prophets)
