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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sound art
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 Sound Art   playlist
#trackscore
1Tomasz Bednarczyk "On Your Way"253
2Machinefabriek "+ Joana Gama"218
3Ian Hawgood "Life Lived in the Echoes of Emptiness"196
4Federico Durand "Dia de Nieve"187
5Taylor Deupree "Eev"186
6Imaginary Softwoods "Bronze Lamp"176
7Billow Observatory "Fade Into Air"175
8David Cordero "All Your Silences"171
9Chihei Hatakeyama "sound of rainfall"171
10Loscil "Grey"166
11Dylan Henner "Today I Learned What Makes Bugs Sick and How To Tie My Shoelaces"145
12Arovane "Lithh"142
13Roméo Poirier "Les encombres"136
14Haruhisa Tanaka "Snug"136
15KMRU "Or Even Forever"134
16Kangding Ray "Schnee"134
17SVLBRD "Bruma - Ambient"132
18Tim Hecker "Winter Cop"129
19Ekin Fil "Seasick"119
20Jogging House "Equity"119
21KENJI KIHARA "Jasper Green"118
22K. Leimer "Strewn"117
23Abstract Aprils "Wonder to Wisdom"116
24anthéne "Artifact"116
25Salamanda "Drink Wisdom"114
26Michiru Aoyama "orange"110
27Benoît Pioulard "Eidetic"108
28Tujiko Noriko "Prayer"105
29Robert Farrugia "Xefaq"104
30Hainbach "The Wooden"102
31Josiah Steinbrick "Tomorrow"102
32Deathprod "Composition 3"101
33SSIEGE "Virgo Oscura"98
34Faten Kanaan "Fin août, début septembre"95
35Bochum Welt "At Dawn"93
36Lord Of The Isles "Coco Melon"93
37M. Sage "Tilth Dusk Drains"92
38Richard Skelton "isostasy"92
39alva noto "Son"91
40Max Würden "Summiteer"88
41Tor Lundvall "A Room By The Sea"87
42Jonny Nash "Face Of Another"87
43Lia Kohl "like time (pretending it had a human body)"87
44Daigo Hanada "Seis - Daigo Hanada Rework"86
45Drifting Waves "Frequency 589 Hz"86
46David Toop "Mouth Cave"84
47zakè "Cache"83
48Christina Vantzou "Lands of Permanent Mist"82
49Jan Jelinek "Ropes Sing In The Air"81
50Martyna Basta "Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering"81
51Kassel Jaeger "Shifted in Dreams"80
52Ital Tek "Staggered"80
53Rhucle "Rest For The Restless"79
54Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith "Clear Sky"79
55Bryan Senti "Telar - Remix"79
56Bryozone "Smoothy Flow"79
57Sachi Kobayashi "Still Remember"78
58OZmotic "Motionless Image of Eternity"78
59Laraaji "Koto (Glimpse)"78
60Bianca Scout "lamina"75
61Yūgen Senritsu "幽霊の舞踏"74
62William Basinski "The Clocktower at the Beach (1979) (Excerpt 1)"74
63Civilistjävel! "Sebäng"74
64Bruno Sanfilippo "COLLAB 2"73
65Meitei "Rikka"73
66kita kouhei "Kuware Uta - Intro"73
67Warmth "Ascent"73
68Klara Lewis "Work It Out"70
69Kevin Drumm "Glory Only Once"69
70Mark Barrott "Kamikakushi (神隠し)"69
71Weatherson "supermarket"68
72Celer "Stargazing Lily Lacks The Flower - Remastered 2023"68
73Caterina Barbieri "Swirls of You"68
74Pan-American "Quarry A"67
75Kalia Vandever "Mirrored Solitude"65
76Jonnine "Blissfully Unaware (of you)"65
77Khotin "HV Road"65
78Biosphere "Monju - 1"65
79The Black Dog "[b] Owls In Tesco Bags - Album Mix"65
80Golden Brown "Glass Frog"63
81Kali Malone "Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.2"63
82Rachika Nayar "hawthorn"63
83Troth "Phare"63
84Sarah Davachi "First Triad"63
85Eluvium "The Violet Light"62
86Hatis Noit "Inori - William Basinski Rework"62
87Rudy Adrian "Beechwood"61
88Alaskan Tapes "Of Woods and Seas"61
89Relief "Cloudleaping"61
90Early Fern "Leeches In The Mud"61
91Shuta Yasukochi "Cave"60
92Ans M "Bud"60
93Mike Lazarev "Tonality Number Two"59
94Brian Eno "LUX 1.1"59
9558918012 "Tooth"59
96Violet A. Foster "A Small Pool of Water by the Graves"58
97µ-Ziq "Burnt Orange"58
98Tomo-Nakaguchi "Twilight Glow Of The Sky"57
99Kazuma Okabayashi "Whirlwind"57
100Aleksi Perälä "FI3AC2381010"57



















 
 
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.)