The Roots Music Report’s
Top 50 Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Week of Jul 11, 2026
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | ▲ | Little Wide Open | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans |
| 2 | 1 | ▼ | Getting Killed | Geese | Partisan |
| 3 | 2 | ▼ | An Eraser and a Maze | Modest Mouse | Glacial Pace |
| 4 | 4 | - | Bitknot | feeble little horse | Saddle Creek |
| 5 | 5 | - | Nothing's About to Happen to Me | Mitski | Dead Oceans |
| 6 | 6 | - | Oh Yeah? | Steve Lacy | RCA |
| 7 | 7 | - | Welcome to My Blue Sky | Momma | 2025 Polyviny |
| 8 | 8 | - | Belong | Jay Som | Polyvinyl |
| 9 | 9 | - | The Clearing | Wolf Alice | Columbia |
| 10 | 10 | - | Everybody Scream | Florence + the Machine | Polydor |
| 11 | 11 | - | Who is the Sky? | David Byrne | Matador |
| 12 | 12 | - | The Mountain | Gorillaz | Kong |
| 13 | 13 | - | Peaches! | The Black Keys | Easy Eye Sound |
| 14 | 14 | - | Ricochet | Snail Mail | Matador |
| 15 | 15 | - | Doctrine of Love | Jalen Ngonda | Daptone |
| 16 | 17 | ▲ | Reality Awaits | The Strokes | RCA |
| 17 | 18 | ▲ | The New World | Shearwater | Self-Release |
| 18 | 19 | ▲ | Texnia | Tinvis | Mama Mañana |
| 19 | 16 | ▼ | Muscle Shoals Record Shop | Copperhead Six Project | Self-Release |
| 20 | 20 | - | Big World | Hovvdy | Arts & Crafts |
| 21 | 21 | - | Blizzard | Dove Ellis | Black Butter |
| 22 | - | *NEW* | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System | The Bug Club | Sub Pop |
| 23 | 27 | ▲ | Blue Girl Nice Day | La Faute | Distrokid |
| 24 | 22 | ▼ | SHISH | Portugal. The Man | KNIK |
| 25 | 23 | ▼ | For the First Time, Again | Tyler Ballgame | Rough Trade |
| 26 | 24 | ▼ | RAW CRANIUM | Almost Heaven | Self-Release |
| 27 | 25 | ▼ | Snocaps | Snocaps | Anti |
| 28 | 26 | ▼ | Heaven 2 | Lala Lala | Sub Pop |
| 29 | 28 | ▼ | The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy | The Claypool Lennon Delirium | ATO |
| 30 | 29 | ▼ | 13 | White Denim | Bella Union |
| 31 | 30 | ▼ | Memory Be a Blade | Waterbaby | Sub Pop |
| 32 | - | ▲ | Singin' to an Empty Chair | Ratboys | New West |
| 33 | 32 | ▼ | Masquerade | Cardinals | So Young |
| 34 | 33 | ▼ | PLAY ME | Kim Gordon | Matador |
| 35 | - | ▲ | Is | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 36 | 31 | ▼ | Half Truth | Ismay | Fossil |
| 37 | - | ▲ | Manzanita | Shana Cleveland | Hardly Art |
| 38 | - | ▲ | A River Running to Your Heart | Fruit Bats | Merge |
| 39 | 37 | ▼ | Good Together | Lake Street Dive | Concord |
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