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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#6 appalachian folk
#6appalachian folk
#14old-time
#27old-time fiddle
#28clawhammer banjo
#37string band
2023 in Appalachian Folk   playlist
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1Stone & Sue "Alto Waltz"267
2The Country Gentlemen "Matterhorn"185
3Trey Holiday "Hometown Roots"126
4Termosa Zartholomew "Hell In The Years"115
5Sami Braman "Duck House"114
6Forty Drop Few "Merry Girl"110
7Lonesome Ace Stringband "Lonesome Ace #1"91
8The Reno Family "Sundown and Sorrow"86
9Meredith Moon "Needlecase/ Blue Goose"71
10Nora Brown "Lady of the Lake"64
11Natalie Padilla "Farewell Princeton"56
12Don Reno "I Couldn't Win"56
13Tim Stafford "Old Forge"42
14Mild Goose Chase "Cindy / Rat Cheese Under the Hill"41
15Zoe & Cloyd "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"40
16Beau Cheval "Mort Dans Le Fossé"40
17Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass "What Crosses Your Mind"37
18The Gina Furtado Project "True Life Blues"34
19Lost and Found "Put It Off Until Tomorrow"34
20Anthony Simpkins "Beneath the Willows (GemsOnVHS Field Recording)"33
21Audie Blaylock And Redline "Red Rover"33
22Benny Bleu "Five Miles from Town"32
23Darren Nicholson "Arkansas Without You"32
24Rick Faris "Don't Hold Back"32
25The Kody Norris Show "I Call Her Sunshine"31
26East Nash Grass "Railroadin' & Gamblin'"30
27George Jackson "Hartford's Bend"30
28Michael Cleveland "The Blues Are Close At Hand"30
29Erik Hill "Stay Cruisin'"30
30Mighty Poplar "Little Joe"30
31The Kentucky Colonels "Ruben's Train"29
32Cory Walker "Far Away Again"29
33Boone & Foster "Uncle Pen"28
34Nothin' Fancy "Crash and Burn"28
35Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers "Let Time Ride"28
36Benson "Icy Cold"27
37Cutter & Cash and The Kentucky Grass "Call of Kentucky"27
38Sam Shackleton "MacPherson's Rant"27
39Connor Jay Liess "The Wreck of the Old 97"26
40Theodore Nehemiah "From Here"26
41Furry Lewis "Waiting For A Train"26
42Michael Hurley "O My Stars"26
43The Del McCoury Band "Sally Jo"26
44Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves "Sunnyside"26
45Caroline Owens "Heartbreak Train"25
46Bill Evans "Along Came Sonny"25
47Two Runner "Shakin’ Down the Acorns"25
48Robbie Fulks "Lonely Ain't Hardly Alive"24
49Billy Droze "It's Ok To Be Ok"24
50Jimmy Martin "What A Way To Go"23
51Danny Roberts "My Brown Eyed Darling"22
52Jason Dea West "Out on the Range"21
53Missy Raines "These Ole Blues"21
54Balsam Range "Snake Charmer"20
55Billy Swinson "Greener Grass"20
56Ed McCurdy "Lukey's Boat"20
57Special Consensus "Pretty Kate And The Rabbit"20
58Lonesome River Band "Near Mrs."19
59Daryl Mosley "A Life Well Lived"19
60Nick Simon "Park View"18
61Larry Sparks "Gotta Move"18
62Alison Brown "Foggy Morning Breaking"17
63Sister Sadie "Well"17
64Béla Bartók "44 Duets for Two Violins, Sz. 98: Book IV: No. 43, Pizzicato"16
65Matt Heckler "I Tried - GemsOnVHS field recording"16
66Nick Shoulders "Won't Fence Us In"15
67Hannah Read "Stinkhorn"15
68Blue Highway "Lonesome State Of Mind"15
69Jake Eddy "Liquor Cellar"15
70Joe K. Walsh "Madison"15
71Jackson and the Janks "Too Late"14
72Willi Carlisle "All of the Redheaded Stranger"14
73Clarence White "No Title Yet Blues (feat. Eric Weissberg)"14
74Nick Hans "Junkyard"14
75The Lostines "Last Night"14
76David Marshall "Hammer And Nail"13
77The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri "My Path was Paved by the Blood of the Lamb"13
78Alice Gerrard "Sun to Sun"13
79Volume Five "The Bible"13
80The Infamous Stringdusters "Down the Road"12
81Russ Carson "Awesome Sauce"12
82Tim O'Brien "Little Lamb Little Lamb"12
83April Verch "Horse and Buggy-O"12
84Water Tower "My Little Girl in Tennessee - Live"11
85gimlet "kotonikiduku"11
86Nick Dumas "Bozeman"11
87Dean Johnson "Annabelle Goodbye"11
88Viv & Riley "Chance Creek"11
89Chandler Beavers "Commencement"11
90Molly Tuttle "San Joaquin"11
91Rachel Baiman "Old Songs Never Die"10
92Ben Krakauer "Brushy"10
93Bella White "Among Other Things"10
94J.D. Crowe & The New South "Train 45"10
95Brennen Leigh "Running Out Of Hope, Arkansas - Acoustic"10
96Holy Locust "Live Wire"10
97The Charla Freeland Band "Ol’ Missouri"10
98Junior Sisk "Long Hard Road (The Share Cropper's Dream)"10
99Andy Hall "Skunk Weed"10
100Tommy Emmanuel "White Freight Liner Blues (feat. Molly Tuttle)"10



















 
 
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.
 
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(PS: It's not even too late for 2022, 2021, 2020 or 2019.)