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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#3 traditional english folk
#3traditional english folk
#4traditional british folk
#10yorkshire folk
#29scottish fiddle
#31danish folk
#31folkmusik
#34balfolk
#39nyckelharpa
#42scottish folk
#49irish fiddle
#50concertina
#50jig and reel
#50swedish fiddle
#51hardingfele
#51irish flute
#51uilleann pipes
#52irish neo-traditional
#52scottish gaelic folk
#58nordic folk
#65norwegian folk
2023 in Traditional English Folk   playlist
#trackscore
1Megson "Anastasia & William"423
2Jack Rutter "Bold Nevison The Highwayman"280
3Leveret "Bass Hornpipe"245
4The Young'uns "Trespassers"228
5Ninebarrow "Among the Boughs"168
6Martin Simpson "I Whipped My Horse"152
7Will Allen "Bobbing Joe / the Maid Peeped out at the Window"144
8Tarah Sawyer "Philippians 4:6-7"143
9The Ciderhouse Rebellion "Knock Four Times"127
10Ben Walker "The Way Through The Woods"123
11Salt House "Birch Lines"123
12Sam Sweeney "Shape #4 (G)"122
13Reg Meuross "England No More"118
14Gilmore & Roberts "I'll Take What I Can Get"116
15Rachel Cumberland "Range Of Buffalo Owen"101
16Moonaroon "Lord Douglas"96
17Jon Wilks "Johnny Sands"95
18Hack-Poets Guild "Hemp & Flax"93
19Grace Smith Trio "Miss Cole’s"90
20Merry Hell "Stand Down"89
21Brown Boots "Temperance"88
22The Furrow Collective "Halsway Carol"85
23Bryony Griffith "I Traced Her Little Footmarks in the Snow"83
24Jodie Fox "Irish Goodbye"83
25Lauren MacColl "The Lost Bell / Women of the Shore"74
26Henry Purcell "How Blest Are Shepherds (Arr. for Voice and Chamber Ensemble by Rebecca Scout Nelson)"73
27Kris Drever "Punchbag"72
28Will Pound "Sheba"71
29Archie Churchill-Moss "Odi & Nancy"70
30The Rosie Hood Band "Lyddie Shears"69
31Siskin Green "For those in peril"61
32Doris Todd "Inactive"60
33O'Hooley & Tidow "The Song Thrush"60
34Show Of Hands "Crow on the Cradle"58
35Jenny Sturgeon "Cut and Run"58
36Windborne "World Turned Upside Down"57
37Westward the Light "Flow Country"56
38Alasdair Roberts "Drimindown"56
39Ward Knutur Townes "Paper Plane"55
40Ben Nicholls "The Greenland Whale Fisheries"50
41George Sansome "Tailor In The Tea Chest"48
42Kathryn Tickell "Freedom Bird"46
43Karine Polwart "Wind Blown"45
44Christina Alden & Alex Patterson "The Starless Sea"44
45Oaksun "Only Dream"44
46The Magpie Arc "Wassail"44
47The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook "The Scarecrow Knows (Episode 1 Credits Edit)"42
48Jim Moray "Hind Etin"41
49Nathaniel Joseph "Green and Gold"40
50Gudrun Walther "Sheffield Fair / Ravens Hornpipe"38
51Nat Brookes "Mushroom Vent / Cormorant"37
52Ross Ainslie "Independance"34
53Stick in the Wheel "The Cuckoo VIP - EAN Remix"33
54Assynt "Nighean Donn"32
55Filkin's Ensemble "Wind & Rain"32
56Spell Songs "Heartwood - Live at The Natural History Museum"32
57Ruth Angell "Magdalene Laundries"32
58Jim Ghedi "Swale Song"31
59Graham Mackenzie "Earn River"31
60Duncan Chisholm "To the High Mountains"31
61Dai Komatsu "Violet"31
62Harbottle and Jonas "Now The Green Blade Riseth"29
63Lucy Farrell "Sit down"29
64Calum Stewart "Cille Chuimein"29
65Dallahan "A Terrible Beauty"28
66Joshua Burnell "Out Of These Worlds"28
67Goldsmith Giles "Rest And Peace"28
68Daoirí Farrell "Sullivan’s John"27
69Claire Hastings "My Little One"26
70Olivia Chaney "Marguerite"26
71Deangelo Albertie "New House"26
72Seth Lakeman "Days Ago"25
73Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles "Take a Moment on Byker Bridge"25
74Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman "Fear Not The Mountain"24
75Kate Rusby "Hunting The Hare"24
76The Swampboys "Now More Than Ever"24
77Unthank : Smith "What Maks Makems"24
78Shirley Collins "High and Away"23
79Ímar "Neachtain's Wing"22
80Sam Lee "Sweet Girl McRee"22
81Cala "Cha Labhair"22
82Rebecca Hill and Charlie Stewart "Out On The Roof"21
83Old Spot "Blue John in the High Peak / Tiny Dog"21
84Elír "Edward"21
85John McCusker "Wee Michael's March"21
86Josienne Clarke "The Tangled Tree"21
87Sound of The Sirens "Forgiven"20
88McAnna´s Band "Baco"20
89Sara Niklasson "What We Have Shared"20
90Gnoss "Audrey's"19
91JD and The Stonemasons "Nothing to Do but Drink"19
92Dàimh "Chaidh Mis' a dh'Eubhal Imprig"19
93Ellie Gowers "The Stars Are Ours"19
94Honey and The Bear "Finn's Jig"18
95Silgor "Fire of the Marches"18
96The Crosslegs "Asleep On This Land"18
97Martin Hayes "The Boyne Water"18
98Rura "Think of Today"17
99The Langan Band "Open Your Eyes"17
100Iona Lane "Agar Main Panchi Hota / Lark in the Clear Air"17



















 
 
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.)