2023 Around the World   country sampler   genre sampler  
The new or newly released music that defined, united and distinguished fan communities of place and interest around the world in 2023.
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ambient country
compositional ambient
neo-classical
minimal techno
new age
ambient
new age piano
fourth world
drone
experimental
japanese piano
spectra
vaporwave
j-ambient
lo-fi brasileiro
organic ambient
pastoral
experimental ambient
handpan
ambient worship
music box
psychill
drift
ambeat
minimalism
nu age
new tribe
minimal wave
hardvapour
abstract
fluxwork
ambient guitar
hauntology
ambient psychill
sound art
glitch
space ambient
ethereal wave
outsider house
ambient idm
avant-garde
witch house
modern cello
warm drone
italian library music
ambient pop
korean instrumental
new isolationism
drone ambient
future ambient
laboratorio
dronescape
japanese guitar
dungeon synth
ambient post-rock
mandible
dark jazz
ambient dub techno
deep ambient
british experimental
horror synth
nordic ambient
experimental guitar
ambient country
post-minimalism
experimental classical
birdsong
dark ambient
australian experimental
danish experimental
german dark minimal techno
australian ambient
didgeridoo
marimba
noise
ambient industrial
ambient fusion
acousmatic
pop ambient
lowercase
spanish experimental
demoscene
mallet
death industrial
atmospheric post-rock
japanoise
musique concrete
swedish experimental
free folk
experimental psych
xenharmonic
italian experimental
argentine ambient
polish ambient
finnish experimental
ukrainian experimental
ritual ambient
arab experimental
new weird finland
electroacoustic improvisation
2023 in Ambient Country   playlist
#trackscore
1Golden Brown "Chrysalis"375
2The Royal Arctic Institute "The Elated World"291
3SUSS "Ranger"265
4Danny Paul Grody "California Angelica"233
5North Americans "Bad Box"223
6Jeffrey Silverstein "Guesthouse"193
7numün "Sideway"169
8Prairiewolf "Return to the Lonesome Prairie"167
9Bobby Lee "Rainbow Reprise"164
10Luke Schneider "Pax Tennesseanna"164
11Zenitude "Sleepless Night"164
12Chuck Johnson "Driving to Margie's"160
13Elkhorn "East"158
14Nashville Ambient Ensemble "Band in Boston"152
15Michael Scott Dawson "Prairie Western Reclamation"152
16Steve Gunn "Libration"135
17Nico Georis "Soft Yellow Gazers"118
18Hayden Pedigo "The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored"115
19Tacoma Park "Not Deaf Yet"107
20M. Sage "Tilth Dusk Drains"94
21William Tyler & The Impossible Truth "Gone Clear - Live"94
22Josiah Steinbrick "Signature"87
23Channelers "Holding The Ember"83
24Nathan Salsburg "IX"82
25Mute Duo "Sunken Light"74
26Ulaan Passerine "A Calvary of Clouds"72
27Edsel Axle "Variable Happiness"67
28K. Leimer "Strewn"64
29Jonny Nash "Face Of Another"63
30Daniel Bachman "Summer's Fingers Sweetly Linger (Everywhere On Every Side)"63
31Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders "Sequoia Seed Escape Pod"62
32The Sad Bandits "The Golden Age Rises"61
33Early Fern "Softly Brushed By Wind"59
34BCMC "Foreign Smokes"58
35Bill Orcutt "Music That Fights Back"58
36Andrew Wasylyk "Lost, Aglow - Alternate Mix"57
37Marigold Sun "Asperitas Clouds"56
38Kitten Floss "Til Tuesday"56
39Imaginary Softwoods "Parterre"53
40Black Duck "Of the Lit Backyards"52
41Felbm "cycli infini - excerpt"51
42Faten Kanaan "Falconers"48
43Blank Gloss "No Appetite"47
44Powers / Pulice / Rolin "Magic Meadow Mirror"47
45Brendan Eder Ensemble "Interlude"46
46Kenneth James Gibson "The Groundskeeper - Chuck Johnson Remix"45
47Masahiro Takahashi "Back To The West"45
48Gunn - Truscinski - Nace "Tape"45
49Haruhisa Tanaka "Sprout"43
50Taylor Deupree "Something That Looks Like Stars"43
51Lone Mesa "Listless Drifter"43
52Dexter+Franz "Reel Breezy"42
53Spencer Cullum "Green Trees"42
54KENJI KIHARA "Matsuzaki Beach, Feb 5th, 2023 (Music)"42
55Adeline Hotel "Seeing Yourself Seen"41
56Rose City Band "Saturday's Gone"41
57Omni Gardens "Our Backyard Fern"41
58Mark McGuire "Shallow Where It Should Be Deep"40
59Tomasz Bednarczyk "About The Universe"40
60Federico Durand "Dia de Nieve"40
61Lia Kohl "like time (pretending it had a human body)"40
62Jogging House "Subtitles"39
63Scree "Wind And Sand"39
64Michael Night "Good Night My Love"39
65David Cordero "All Your Silences"39
66Modern Baroqui Ensemble "Fair Potions"38
67Will Epstein "I Discovered The Moon"38
68Peel Dream Magazine "Mary, Johnny and Me"37
69Marisa Anderson "For All We Know"37
70Ann Annie "Three Chords"37
71Greg Foat "Dolphin"37
72Blue Lake "Sun Arcs"36
73Stella Kola "Fair Youth & Dark Lady"36
74Magic Tuber Stringband "July 4 (Mourning Chorus)"36
75Old Saw "Weathervaning"36
76KMRU "Or Even Forever"36
77Marley "Final Memories"36
78Gilroy Mere "Heat Haze"35
79Misha Panfilov "Caipirinha"35
80Laraaji "Koto (Glimpse)"35
81Alabaster DePlume "Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins"34
82Rich Ruth "It's The Water (Live)"34
83Dylan Henner "With Her First Ever Steps She Walked To Me and She Was So Happy"34
84Ian Hawgood "Call Me When the Leaves Fall"34
85Chihei Hatakeyama "sound of rainfall"33
86Green-House "Ferndell Shade"33
87Sluice "Ostern"33
88Setting "A Sun Harp"33
89Raymond Richards "The Rhythm King Rides Again"33
90Gia Margaret "April to April"33
91Jim Ghedi "Swale Song"32
92Black Brunswicker "Sit by the fire for a little"32
93Benoît Pioulard "Eidetic"32
94Peter Zummo "On Another TimelIne"32
95Post Moves "The Ladder's Shadow"32
96Rachika Nayar "hawthorn"32
97Rhucle "Lm"32
98Jeff Parker "Alberta"31
99Glyders "Maria's Hunt"31
100Chaz Knapp "The Sun Still Rises"31



















 
 
alchemy by glenn mcdonald / @everynoise for Spotify, listening by the world
 
These lists compile the collective 2023 new-music listening of music fans in every country where people use Spotify, and in the fan communities for 6000+ genres and other genre-shaped distinctions. The songs in each list are scored and ranked by a combined weighting of a) their absolute popularity with those fans and b) the share of the song's global listening that those fans account for. (And then filtered to one song per artist.) This means, for example, that The Sound of Ukraine 2023 is the music that defines, unites and distinguishes Ukrainian fans, whether that music comes from Ukraine or not. Likewise, 2023 in Drift Phonk is the music that fans of Drift Phonk loved, whether it's Drift or Phonk or not. To be eligible, a song must have been released on or after 2022-12-01, as best our data can tell, so that's why no "Cruel Summer".
 
In addition to exploring by country or metagenre, you can click any artist to see all the lists on which they appear.
 
You are allowed to fall in love with things you did not know even existed until now. It is not too late.
 
It is never too late.
 
 
(PS: It's not even too late for 2022, 2021, 2020 or 2019.)