The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gloria | The Lumineers |
| 2 | Love is Love | Grace Potter |
| 3 | Trampoline (Stripped) | SHAED |
| 4 | Harmony Hall | Vampire Weekend |
| 5 | When Am I Gonna Lose You | Local Natives |
| 6 | Life in the City | The Lumineers |
| 7 | The Wire | Shovels & Rope |
| 8 | Didn't Pay the Bill | The Mother Hips |
| 9 | Ready to Let Go | Cage the Elephant |
| 10 | Crazy Comes Easy | Jackie Greene |
| 11 | Go | The Black Keys |
| 12 | Vagabond | Steve Gunn |
| 13 | I Get No Joy | Jade Bird |
| 14 | Lo/Hi | The Black Keys |
| 15 | Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile | The New Pornographers |
| 16 | Almost (Sweet Music) | Hozier |
| 17 | Stay High | Brittany Howard |
| 18 | You Had Your Soul with You | The National |
| 19 | Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples) | Hozier |
| 20 | Shelter | Broken Bells |
| 21 | There She Was | Fruition |
| 22 | That's Just the Way It Goes | The Walk-a-Bout |
| 23 | By My Side | The Walk-a-Bout |
| 24 | Help Me Stranger | The Raconteurs |
| 25 | Sing Along | Sturgill Simpson |
| 26 | Change | The Revivalists |
| 27 | Orphans | Coldplay |
| 28 | Oh No | The Revivalists |
| 29 | Funny Business | Alice Merton |
| 30 | Consequences | The Walk-a-Bout |
| 31 | Last Surviving Son | David Gelman |
| 32 | Overexcited | Guster |
| 33 | Missed Connection | The Head and The Heart |
| 34 | Hey Rose | Son Little |
| 35 | Never Say No | Henry Chadwick |
| 36 | Away We Go | Bad Suns |
| 37 | The Way I Feel | Keane |
| 38 | Holocene | Bon Iver |
| 39 | Borderline | Tame Impala |
| 40 | Dylan Thomas | Better Oblivion Community Center |
| 41 | I Was Wrong | Bailen |
| 42 | Alligator | Of Monsters and Men |
| 43 | Saw Lightning | Beck |
| 44 | Mississippi Nuthin' | Shovels & Rope |
| 45 | Carry Me Home | Shovels & Rope |
| 46 | Shame, Shame, Shame | Lake Street Dive |
| 47 | Hold Me While You Wait | Lewis Capaldi |
| 48 | Broken | lovelytheband |
| 49 | Feel Alright | David Gelman |
| 50 | Tell Me Why | John Butler Trio |
| 51 | Timshel | Mumford & Sons |
| 52 | Shotgun | George Ezra |
| 53 | Red Bull & Hennessy | Jenny Lewis |
| 54 | I Wonder | Bay Ledges |
| 55 | Superposition | Young The Giant |
| 56 | Here We Go | Sean McConnell |
| 57 | Landslide | Beirut |
| 58 | Oh Brother | John Floreani |
| 59 | Song for Winners | Nick Waterhouse |
| 60 | Stratospheric | Treble Makers |
| 61 | Bite the Hand | Boygenius |
| 62 | Ten Cent Pistol | The Black Keys |
| 63 | Bloodless | Andrew Bird |
| 64 | Outnumbered | Dermot Kennedy |
| 65 | All of Our Yesterdays | Mac DeMarco |
| 66 | Things Happen | Dawes |
| 67 | Death with Dignity | Sufjan Stevens |
| 68 | Eagle Birds | The Black Keys |
| 69 | The Only Thing | Sufjan Stevens |
| 70 | Drawn to the Blood | Sufjan Stevens |
| 71 | Alex | Wild Child |
| 72 | Wasted Youth | Jenny Lewis |
| 73 | Might Be Right | White Reaper |
| 74 | Cynic | Noah Kahan |
| 75 | Now That You're Gone | The Raconteurs |
| 76 | Ghost | Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds |
| 77 | Burning | Maggie Rogers |
| 78 | Uh Huh | Jade Bird |
| 79 | Far Away | David Gelman |
| 80 | Social Cues | Cage the Elephant |
| 81 | My My My | Cancion Franklin |
| 82 | I Turned My Back on the Written Word | Generationals |
| 83 | Different Kind of Love | Adia Victoria |
| 84 | Joy | Bastille |
| 85 | Bobby | Clare Means |
| 86 | Let It All Go | David Gelman |
| 87 | Danger | Clare Means |
| 88 | I Know What It's Like | Jeff Tweedy |
| 89 | Blind Leading the Blind | Mumford & Sons |
| 90 | The Way It Goes | Sneaks |
| 91 | Big Love | Heather Kropf |
| 92 | Head Held High | Kodaline |
| 93 | Sunday Driver | The Raconteurs |
| 94 | Exits | Foals |
| 95 | Woman | Karen O |
| 96 | Pressure to Party | Julia Jacklin |
| 97 | Record Collection | Kaiser Chiefs |
| 98 | Shine a Little Light | The Black Keys |
| 99 | Dizzy | Bedouine |
| 100 | Black Moon Rising | Black Pumas |
| 101 | You're Different | The Shelters |
| 102 | You and I | The Revivalists |
| 103 | Gold Past Life | Fruit Bats |
| 104 | Gotta Get to Know Ya | Seratones |
| 105 | Heard You Bought a House | Walker Lukens |
| 106 | Hold Your Nerve | Boy & Bear |
| 107 | GotItBad | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
| 108 | New Birth in New England | Phosphorescent |
| 109 | Circles | Clare Means |
| 110 | New Moon | Steve Gunn |
| 111 | The Best Way Down | Cancion Franklin |
| 112 | Ghost Town | Heather Kropf |
| 113 | Bright Horses | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
| 114 | Nobody | Mitski |
| 115 | Colors | Black Pumas |
| 116 | Without a Blush | Hatchie |
| 117 | Rio Grande | Wand |
| 118 | Fever Pitch | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 119 | Bikini | Caroline Rose |
| 120 | The Slow Drag Under | Benjamin Booker |
| 121 | Magazin | White Denim |
| 122 | Hollywood Zoo | Clare Means |
| 123 | Truth is Heavy | Benjamin Booker |
| 124 | All My Friends | The Revivalists |
| 125 | Cuatro Crazy | Y La Bamba |
| 126 | I Only Lie when I Love You | Royal Blood |
| 127 | All My Happiness is Gone | Purple Mountains |
| 128 | Convex | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
| 129 | Freelance | Toro Y Moi |
| 130 | House of Glass | Cage the Elephant |
| 131 | Hey, Ma | Bon Iver |
| 132 | Fire | Black Pumas |
| 133 | Hide | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 134 | The Barrel | Aldous Harding |
| 135 | Yesterday's Love | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke |
| 136 | Post-war Cinematic Dead Man Blues | Chuck Prophet |
| 137 | True Love | Dr. Dog |
| 138 | U (Man Like) | Bon Iver |
| 139 | Calm Down | Pete Yorn |
| 140 | Something Tells Me | Bailen |
| 141 | Slow Mover | Angie McMahon |
| 142 | Go out Fighting | Dr. Dog |
| 143 | Telepathic Mail | The Wild Reeds |
| 144 | Gold Rush | Death Cab for Cutie |
| 145 | Here's to the Morning | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke |
| 146 | Sisyphus | Andrew Bird |
| 147 | Power | Seratones |
| 148 | Quiet Lover | Lily Vakili Band |
| 149 | Man Leaves Town | Nick Waterhouse |
| 150 | Four out of Five | Arctic Monkeys |
| 151 | Failure | Frances Cone |
| 152 | Get Yourself Together | The Black Keys |
| 153 | Dance Dance | Cage the Elephant |
| 154 | Money | Caroline Rose |
| 155 | Human | Molly Sarle |
| 156 | Plj | Lily Vakili Band |
| 157 | Bad Habit | Imelda May |
| 158 | 15 Minutes | Allan Thomas |
| 159 | Dating Game | Allan Thomas |
| 160 | Paper Rain | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness |
| 161 | Lose My Mind | The Wild Reeds |
| 162 | Baby | Brittany Howard |
| 163 | Apologize | grandson |
| 164 | Dreams (Piano Version) | Lissie |
| 165 | Young Lady, You're Scaring Me | Ron Gallo |
| 166 | I'm Not Where You Are (acoustic) | Marika Hackman |
| 167 | Such a Simple Thing | Ray LaMontagne |
| 168 | Land of the Free | The Killers |
| 169 | New Familiar | Steve Gunn |
| 170 | You're Somebody else | Flora Cash |
| 171 | Fine Slime | White Denim |
| 172 | Back to Me (feat. Lucius) | Grace Potter |
| 173 | Fooled Again | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke |
| 174 | December 2914 | James Vincent McMorrow |
| 175 | Signal | Automatic |
| 176 | It's Called: Freefall | Rainbow Kitten Surprise |
| 177 | A Dream of Home | Tyler Ramsey |
| 178 | Galleon Ship | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
| 179 | Shadow of a Man | Danny Fishman |
| 180 | Bored and Razed | The Raconteurs |
| 181 | 4 Ur Life | Danielia Cotton |
| 182 | These Are the Days | Neal Francis |
| 183 | Honey Won't You Stay | Danny Fishman |
| 184 | Comeback Kid | Sharon Van Etten |
| 185 | Dream of Dreams | Heather Kropf |
| 186 | Little Bird (Radio Edit) | Mark Oblinger |
| 187 | Lovey Come Down | Lily Vakili Band |
| 188 | Grains of Salt | Tacocat |
| 189 | Big Dreams | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke |
| 190 | Circle | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke |
| 191 | Uneventful Days | Beck |
| 192 | Strangers | City And Colour |
| 193 | See You at the Movies | J Mascis |
| 194 | The Rover | Interpol |
| 195 | Summer So Far | Lily Vakili Band |
| 196 | Pasta | Angie McMahon |
| 197 | Jailbreak | Larkin Poe |
| 198 | Stand by My Girl | Dan Auerbach |
| 199 | Lonely Tonight | David Gelman |
| 200 | Jenny Jenkins | Mt. Joy |
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