The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2017
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Believer | Imagine Dragons |
| 2 | Irish Whiskey Pretty Girls | Old 97's |
| 3 | Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins | Chuck Prophet |
| 4 | Feel It Still | Portugal. The Man |
| 5 | Crazy for You | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 6 | Good with God (feat. Brandi Carlile) | Old 97's |
| 7 | Bad Habit | Imelda May |
| 8 | Anthem (feat. Mary Ellen Duell) | Greg Kihn |
| 9 | Light | Moses Guest |
| 10 | Through Strange Eyes | The Sadies |
| 11 | There Will Be Time | Mumford & Sons |
| 12 | Darling | Real Estate |
| 13 | Witness | Benjamin Booker |
| 14 | I Give You Power | Arcade Fire |
| 15 | Waiting on a Song | Dan Auerbach |
| 16 | Loner | The Young Presidents |
| 17 | Once a Day (feat. Sonna Rele & Supa Dups) | Michael Franti & Spearhead |
| 18 | Tell Only Lies | The Roosevelts |
| 19 | Shine on Me | Dan Auerbach |
| 20 | Rebel Heart | The Shelters |
| 21 | Good Time Gone | Jade Jackson |
| 22 | Bad Year for Rock and Roll | Chuck Prophet |
| 23 | The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness | The National |
| 24 | Unsteady | X Ambassadors |
| 25 | Honey and Smoke | case/lang/veirs |
| 26 | My Old Man | Mac DeMarco |
| 27 | Give It Time | The Mynabirds |
| 28 | Everything Now | Arcade Fire |
| 29 | Walk the Wire | Boy & Bear |
| 30 | Star Roving | Slowdive |
| 31 | Mourning Sound | Grizzly Bear |
| 32 | Lost Cause | Black Pistol Fire |
| 33 | Call Me | Imelda May |
| 34 | Newton's Cradle | Sean Rowe |
| 35 | Stand by My Girl | Dan Auerbach |
| 36 | Halfway Home | Broken Social Scene |
| 37 | Anymore | Goldfrapp |
| 38 | Young Lady, You're Scaring Me | Ron Gallo |
| 39 | Third of May / Ōdaigahara | Fleet Foxes |
| 40 | Thinking of a Place | The War on Drugs |
| 41 | Jesus Loves You | Old 97's |
| 42 | Told You I'd Be with the Guys | Cherry Glazerr |
| 43 | More Than a Morning Coffee | The Local Boys |
| 44 | It's How I Feel (Free) | Leopold & His Fiction |
| 45 | Ballad of the Dying Man | Father John Misty |
| 46 | In Cold Blood | Alt-J |
| 47 | All Who Wander | Old 97's |
| 48 | Get Ready | The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer |
| 49 | In a Black out | Hamilton Leithauser |
| 50 | Common Fear | Moonrise Nation |
| 51 | Hug of Thunder | Broken Social Scene |
| 52 | Proud | (Sandy) Alex G |
| 53 | High Ticket Attractions | The New Pornographers |
| 54 | Currency | The Black Angels |
| 55 | Mama Knows | Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds |
| 56 | Stay in My Corner | The Arcs |
| 57 | Chains of Love | The Arcs |
| 58 | Look Like That | Sneaks |
| 59 | Your Skin | Chuck Prophet |
| 60 | Fire | Beth Ditto |
| 61 | Aboard My Train | Kevin Morby |
| 62 | Hook, Line & Sinker | Royal Blood |
| 63 | Show Me Emotion (Radio Edit) | The Dunwells |
| 64 | Felony Glamour | Chuck Prophet |
| 65 | Ninety Bucks | Craig Finn |
| 66 | Lovers of the Sun | The Jayhawks |
| 67 | Bad Boy | Tom Faia |
| 68 | Hot Thoughts | Spoon |
| 69 | Estrangeira | Mosquitos |
| 70 | A Love That You Will Never Know | Rococode |
| 71 | She Hates Everybody | Old 97's |
| 72 | Bendover | A Giant Dog |
| 73 | Girlhood | The Preatures |
| 74 | Memories Are Now | Jesca Hoop |
| 75 | Carnations | Palehound |
| 76 | Do You | Spoon |
| 77 | A Little Uncanny | Conor Oberst |
| 78 | Patient Zero | Aimee Mann |
| 79 | Heartbeat | 61 Ghosts |
| 80 | There Are No Words | The Sadies |
| 81 | Don't Mean a Thing | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
| 82 | Heavydirtysoul | Twenty One Pilots |
| 83 | New York | St. Vincent |
| 84 | Turncoat | Pickwick |
| 85 | Too Low to Get High | Kalu & The Electric Joint |
| 86 | Violent Shiver | Benjamin Booker |
| 87 | Pharaoh | Louise Burns |
| 88 | Got Nuffin | Spoon |
| 89 | Don't Matter | Kings of Leon |
| 90 | Stratospheric | Treble Makers |
| 91 | Factory Made | Wyatt Brewer |
| 92 | Lover Come Back | City And Colour |
| 93 | No Exit | Tennis |
| 94 | Family Tree | Kings of Leon |
| 95 | The Slow Drag Under | Benjamin Booker |
| 96 | Only Songs | The Wild Reeds |
| 97 | Forgot Myself | Jen Cloher |
| 98 | Playlist (feat. Andrea Johnson) | Wyatt Brewer |
| 99 | A Different Man | Wyatt Brewer |
| 100 | We'll Be Fine (feat. Sarah Lynn) | Wyatt Brewer |
| 101 | Total Entertainment Forever | Father John Misty |
| 102 | Silver Boys | Holy Oak |
| 103 | Tic Tac Toe (Django Django's Where's the Rides? Remix) | Django Django |
| 104 | You're Dreaming | Wolf Parade |
| 105 | Analysis Paralysis | Jen Cloher |
| 106 | '74: No | The Magnetic Fields |
| 107 | The Devil is in Her Eyes | The Jayhawks |
| 108 | Always Ascending | Franz Ferdinand |
| 109 | Filter Me Through You | The Dream Syndicate |
| 110 | Alta | Ty Segall |
| 111 | Everything You Do (You Do for You) | The Arcs |
| 112 | Places to Be | Wyatt Brewer |
| 113 | Post-war Cinematic Dead Man Blues | Chuck Prophet |
| 114 | Mon Esprit | Sweet Crude |
| 115 | Loveless | Lo Moon |
| 116 | Born Yesterday | Hollerado |
| 117 | World Gone Crazy | 61 Ghosts |
| 118 | Party House | Billy Harvey |
| 119 | Every Songbird Says | Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop |
| 120 | I Only Lie when I Love You | Royal Blood |
| 121 | Heartstruck (Wild Hunger) [feat. Angel Olsen] | Hamilton Leithauser |
| 122 | Way We Won't | Grandaddy |
| 123 | Magnificent (She Says) | Elbow |
| 124 | Just Dumb | Boy & Bear |
| 125 | Follow Me | Grabbitz |
| 126 | Forever Fool | The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer |
| 127 | Downhearted | Molly Burch |
| 128 | IDK About You | Fever Ray |
| 129 | The Last Hawk | Shovels & Rope |
| 130 | Cherrybomb | Dan Auerbach |
| 131 | Lonesome No More | Nellie Pearl |
| 132 | Where'd You Go | Boy & Bear |
| 133 | PTP | Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears |
| 134 | Never Been Wrong | Waxahatchee |
| 135 | I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore | Lucy Dacus |
| 136 | Another Season Again | The Sadies |
| 137 | What a Pleasure | Beach Fossils |
| 138 | Semaphore | Flock Of Dimes |
| 139 | Girl from Conejo Valley | M. Ward |
| 140 | End of the World with You | Calexico |
| 141 | I Wanna Destroy | EMA |
| 142 | Hymnals | Laser Background |
| 143 | War on Peace | The Jesus And Mary Chain |
| 144 | Silver | Waxahatchee |
| 145 | Lagoons | Kane Strang |
| 146 | Look at What the Light Did Now | Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White |
| 147 | Dream of Love | The Luyas |
| 148 | Eschaton | Darlingside |
| 149 | Storms | Louise Burns |
| 150 | Remain | Jay Som |
| 151 | Lipstick Stains | Jay Som |
| 152 | Gossamer Thin | Conor Oberst |
| 153 | If I Was Connie Britton | Chuck Prophet |
| 154 | Friends | Fake Shark |
| 155 | Sol Luna | Broken Social Scene |
| 156 | Protest Song | Broken Social Scene |
| 157 | Lupita | Israel Nash |
| 158 | To the Moon and Back | Fever Ray |
| 159 | Shotgun | Spoon |
| 160 | Wrong Gong | The Octopus Project |
| 161 | Motion Sickness | Phoebe Bridgers |
| 162 | 4 U | Hoops |
| 163 | Empty Hearted | Moonrise Nation |
| 164 | Laughing Man | Holy Oak |
| 165 | Head Start | Lines West |
| 166 | Demon to the Dark | Son Little |
| 167 | All I Wanted | Trementina |
| 168 | Holding on | The War on Drugs |
| 169 | Bridges and Tunnels | Dams Of The West |
| 170 | 29 Candles | William Matheny |
| 171 | Pretty Please | The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer |
| 172 | The Drugs | Mother Mother |
| 173 | We've Been Here Before | The New Pornographers |
| 174 | So Tied Up (feat. Bishop Briggs) | Cold War Kids |
| 175 | Bully | Black Pistol Fire |
| 176 | Right on You | Benjamin Booker |
| 177 | Weather the Waves | Sweet Crude |
| 178 | Cheap Thrills | Fake Shark |
| 179 | Living Half to Death | William Matheny |
| 180 | Can I Sit Next to You | Spoon |
| 181 | Nyc | Tristen |
| 182 | Voices in the Field | Calexico |
| 183 | They Put a Body in the Bayou | The Orwells |
| 184 | Luck Down | Cold War Kids |
| 185 | Radio | Sylvan Esso |
| 186 | If Tears Were Dirt | 61 Ghosts |
| 187 | Man Alone | Boy & Bear |
| 188 | Talisa (feat. Karen O) | Daniele Luppi |
| 189 | Tiny | Dinosaur Jr. |
| 190 | Young Ones | Rococode |
| 191 | It Came to Me | The Barr Brothers |
| 192 | God Bless the Infidels | The Sadies |
| 193 | Treat Me Kind | The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer |
| 194 | The Castle | The Flaming Lips |
| 195 | When I Learned Your Name | Daniel Romano |
| 196 | The Industry | Okkervil River |
| 197 | Lonely Boy | The Black Keys |
| 198 | On Hold | The xx |
| 199 | Over Under Sideways Down (The Stereo Album) | The Yardbirds |
| 200 | Fine Fine Day | Banditos |
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