The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Song Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BRIGHTSIDE | The Lumineers |
| 2 | Wild Child | The Black Keys |
| 3 | WHERE WE ARE | The Lumineers |
| 4 | Long Way 'Round | Jewel |
| 5 | Mine Forever | Lord Huron |
| 6 | Meet Me at Our Spot (Live) | THE ANXIETY |
| 7 | Believe | Caamp |
| 8 | One Step Ahead | Jack Johnson |
| 9 | Virginia (Wind in the Night) | The Head and The Heart |
| 10 | Goodbye Mr. Blue | Father John Misty |
| 11 | The Tipping Point | Tears For Fears |
| 12 | Slide Tackle | Japanese Breakfast |
| 13 | Wake Me Up | Foals |
| 14 | Message in a Bottle (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) | Taylor Swift |
| 15 | Brother the Cloud | Eddie Vedder |
| 16 | I Love You So | The Walters |
| 17 | KEEP IT UP | Rex Orange County |
| 18 | What, Me Worry? | Portugal. The Man |
| 19 | Chapstick | COIN |
| 20 | Alpha Zulu | Phoenix |
| 21 | Rushing Water | Sting |
| 22 | Cheer Up Baby | Inhaler |
| 23 | Funny Girl | Father John Misty |
| 24 | My Love | Florence + the Machine |
| 25 | Anyone for You | George Ezra |
| 26 | Miles and Miles | The Heavy Heavy |
| 27 | A Little Bit of Love | Weezer |
| 28 | Synchronize | Milky Chance |
| 29 | All the Good Times | Angel Olsen |
| 30 | Ride or Die | Hippo Campus |
| 31 | Next to Normal | Lucius |
| 32 | Problem with It | Plains |
| 33 | Way Less Sad | AJR |
| 34 | Conversation | LP |
| 35 | Clarity | Vance Joy |
| 36 | Second Nature | Lucius |
| 37 | Happier Than Ever | Billie Eilish |
| 38 | Make a Picture | Andrew Bird |
| 39 | Sun Keeps on Shining | Almost Monday |
| 40 | Mistakes | Sharon Van Etten |
| 41 | Higher Power | Coldplay |
| 42 | Feels | Watts |
| 43 | Shotgun | Soccer Mommy |
| 44 | Living My Best Life | Ben Rector |
| 45 | What You Say | Cold War Kids |
| 46 | Atomized | Andrew Bird |
| 47 | Runner | (Sandy) Alex G |
| 48 | Follow You (Summer 21 Version) | Imagine Dragons |
| 49 | Bad Dream | Cannons |
| 50 | Purple Haze | Joy Oladokun |
| 51 | Green Green Grass | George Ezra |
| 52 | Better Days | Dermot Kennedy |
| 53 | Bad Kitty | Liz Phair |
| 54 | Cruel Country | Wilco |
| 55 | How Dare You Want More | Bleachers |
| 56 | It Ain't over | The Black Keys |
| 57 | Sugar | Amythyst Kiah |
| 58 | Sapling | Foy Vance |
| 59 | Through the Echoes | Paolo Nutini |
| 60 | Slow Down | Alisa Amador |
| 61 | Edge of the Edge | Panda Bear |
| 62 | Swear Jar | Soak |
| 63 | Wonderful Life | Two Door Cinema Club |
| 64 | Saturday | Twenty One Pilots |
| 65 | I Don't Live Here Anymore (feat. Lucius) | The War on Drugs |
| 66 | Crutches | Deb Never |
| 67 | Bones | Imagine Dragons |
| 68 | Champion | Warpaint |
| 69 | Colorado | Milky Chance |
| 70 | Apple Tree Blues | Caamp |
| 71 | Beautiful Life (Edit) | Michael Kiwanuka |
| 72 | Wrecked | Imagine Dragons |
| 73 | Stop Making This Hurt | Bleachers |
| 74 | Gonna Lose | Built To Spill |
| 75 | Ammunition | Moist |
| 76 | The Man I'll Never Find | Lucius |
| 77 | Ghost in the Machine | Dawes |
| 78 | Big Time | Angel Olsen |
| 79 | Making a Fire (Mark Ronson Re-Version) | Foo Fighters |
| 80 | Can You Handle My Love | Walk The Moon |
| 81 | Grapevine | Weyes Blood |
| 82 | Becoming All Alone | Regina Spektor |
| 83 | Miracle Mile | Houndmouth |
| 84 | Everything's Electric | Liam Gallagher |
| 85 | Spies | Tori Amos |
| 86 | Belinda Says | Alvvays |
| 87 | Timing | Alisa Amador |
| 88 | Metal Water Wood | Tori Amos |
| 89 | REPRISE | The Lumineers |
| 90 | Back to the Future | Bastille |
| 91 | Happiness | The Black Keys |
| 92 | McKenzie | Houndmouth |
| 93 | 1979 | The Smashing Pumpkins |
| 94 | The Otter | Caamp |
| 95 | The Mountain | Tall Heights |
| 96 | Living with Your Memory | Jewel |
| 97 | No Small Thing | Tears For Fears |
| 98 | Hitchin' a Ride | Amythyst Kiah |
| 99 | Acid Eyes | Paolo Nutini |
| 100 | Valerie | Ceramic Animal |
| 101 | Tired of Taking It out on You | Wilco |
| 102 | Burn the Damn Thing Down | The Black Keys |
| 103 | Love Wins | Jewel |
| 104 | Good Love (feat. Billy F Gibbons) | The Black Keys |
| 105 | Go Down River | The Heavy Heavy |
| 106 | May We All | Dispatch |
| 107 | Growing/Dying | The Backseat Lovers |
| 108 | My Boy | Marlon Williams |
| 109 | Lose It | Paolo Nutini |
| 110 | Chloë | Father John Misty |
| 111 | Medicine | Momma |
| 112 | Bones | Soccer Mommy |
| 113 | It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody | Weyes Blood |
| 114 | BIRTHDAY | The Lumineers |
| 115 | Everybody Dies | Billie Eilish |
| 116 | Midnight Lorry | Dispatch |
| 117 | Pharmacist | Alvvays |
| 118 | A Lifetime to Find | Wilco |
| 119 | I've Got a Long Way to Go | Andy Frasco |
| 120 | Las Vegas | Houndmouth |
| 121 | Dancing Slow (feat. Train) | Jewel |
| 122 | Hold My Hand | Wild Pink |
| 123 | Like I Used to | Sharon Van Etten |
| 124 | Give Me Time | The Still Tide |
| 125 | How to Forgive | Tennis |
| 126 | NEVER REALLY MINE | The Lumineers |
| 127 | Abilene | Plains |
| 128 | My Demons | Tears For Fears |
| 129 | Lone Didion | Andrew Bird |
| 130 | Look at What the Light Did Now | Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White |
| 131 | A.M. RADIO | The Lumineers |
| 132 | Pressed | Alvvays |
| 133 | For the Love of Money | The Black Keys |
| 134 | Cry Baby (Unpeeled) | Cage the Elephant |
| 135 | Punchin' Bag (Unpeeled) | Cage the Elephant |
| 136 | Roots | The Copper Children |
| 137 | Go on | Panda Bear |
| 138 | Cried Through the Night | M. Lockwood Porterr |
| 139 | Break the Man | Tears For Fears |
| 140 | Jackson | Houndmouth |
| 141 | Easy on Your Own? | Alvvays |
| 142 | Speaking in Spirits | The Copper Children |
| 143 | All Across the World | Wilco |
| 144 | Shake Shake | Bluebook |
| 145 | Chained to the Rhythm | Amythyst Kiah |
| 146 | No Record of Wrongs | Plains |
| 147 | Giant Palm | Naima Bock |
| 148 | The Rules | Foxfeather |
| 149 | While We're Here | M. Lockwood Porterr |
| 150 | All My Dreams | The Heavy Heavy |
| 151 | Pity Party | The Copper Children |
| 152 | Guest in Your House | Gregor Barnett |
| 153 | Paprika | Japanese Breakfast |
| 154 | Why Don't You Call? | The Heavy Heavy |
| 155 | Hungry Heart | Bruce Springsteen |
| 156 | Yellow | Tegan And Sara |
| 157 | A Dangerous Thing | AURORA |
| 158 | Feel Better | HOMESHAKE |
| 159 | Feel It in Our Bones | Andy Frasco |
| 160 | One Night with the Valet | Tennis |
| 161 | Phoenix (feat. Fleet Foxes & Anaïs Mitchell) | Big Red Machine |
| 162 | Q4 | Father John Misty |
| 163 | There Goes the Neighborhood | Sheryl Crow |
| 164 | Come with Me Now | Caamp |
| 165 | Hangover Blues | Amythyst Kiah |
| 166 | Fancy Drones (Fracture Me) | Amythyst Kiah |
| 167 | Summer Sun | Plains |
| 168 | Mr. Tax Man | The Copper Children |
| 169 | The Ties That Bind | Bruce Springsteen |
| 170 | Same Old Blues | Phantogram |
| 171 | Prospector's Blues | Jamestown Revival |
| 172 | Light on the Horizon | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad |
| 173 | Groovy Xmas | The Linda Lindas |
| 174 | Half Life | Jewel |
| 175 | ROLLERCOASTER | The Lumineers |
| 176 | Black Myself | Amythyst Kiah |
| 177 | Together | Alisa Amador |
| 178 | Good for You | Houndmouth |
| 179 | All This Time | Sting |
| 180 | Morning Elvis | Florence + the Machine |
| 181 | Hints | Wilco |
| 182 | Faithless Ghost | Andrew Bird |
| 183 | Black Rain | Rhye |
| 184 | Want to Be Bad | Tegan And Sara |
| 185 | One of Us | Dawes |
| 186 | Keep on | Portugal. The Man |
| 187 | Black & White Sunshine | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds |
| 188 | Blame the Muse | Tanya Donelly |
| 189 | Somebody Told Me | The Killers |
| 190 | None of Those Things | Andy Frasco |
| 191 | Good Man | Andy Frasco |
| 192 | Shine | Andy Frasco |
| 193 | Honeychurch | Widowspeak |
| 194 | Wedding Bell Blues | Morrissey |
| 195 | I Know I'm Funny Haha | Faye Webster |
| 196 | Both All the Time | Faye Webster |
| 197 | Ghost on | Angel Olsen |
| 198 | Right Now | Angel Olsen |
| 199 | Go Home | Angel Olsen |
| 200 | Five Hearts Breaking | Alejandro Escovedo |
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