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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#28old-time fiddle
#65bluegrass fiddle
#80modern old-time
2023 in String Band   playlist
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1Trey Holiday "Hometown Roots"212
2Lonesome Ace Stringband "Lonesome Ace #1"211
3Sami Braman "Honeycutt"194
4Natalie Padilla "Farewell Princeton"166
5AJ Srubas "Lazy Kate"140
6George Jackson "Hartford's Bend"114
7Tim Stafford "Old Forge"107
8Meredith Moon "Needlecase/ Blue Goose"103
9Termosa Zartholomew "Hell In The Years"97
10Mild Goose Chase "Cindy / Rat Cheese Under the Hill"95
11Hog-Eyed Man "Brad Walters"78
12Benny Bleu "Julianne Johnson"76
13Six Dollar String Band "Money in Both Pockets"72
14Dolly & the Devil "Bitter Creek"65
15Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves "The Snowstorm"62
16ALL ABOARD "Winder Slide / Hawk Is a Mule"60
17Joe K. Walsh "If Not Now, Who?"55
18The Wild Bills "Think Island"50
19Alice Gerrard "December Daisy"49
20John Showman "Long Hot Summer Days"48
21Stone & Sue "Alto Waltz"47
22Hannah Read "Stinkhorn"43
23Sarah Kate Morgan "Muddy Creek"42
24Zachary Brown "Neef"41
25Sonya Badigian "Nancy Dalton"37
26Béla Bartók "44 Duets for Two Violins, Sz. 98: Book IV: No. 43, Pizzicato"36
27Jonny Miller "1849 Overture - Instrumental Version"36
28Erik Hill "Stay Cruisin'"31
29Viv & Riley "Chance Creek"31
30Mighty Poplar "Kicking Up the Devil on a Holiday / Dr. Hecock's Jig"30
31Etulu Etidloie "Ayuqsanartumik - Hard Times"29
32Nora Brown "Twin Sisters"28
33MUSIC FOR TV "CHESTNUT MANOLIN (LOVE IS IN THE MEADOW 3) - Radio Edit"28
34Cory Walker "Walker's Backstep"28
35gimlet "kotonikiduku"28
36East Nash Grass "Jenna McGaugh"27
37Forty Drop Few "Merry Girl"27
38Two Runner "Shakin’ Down the Acorns"27
39Russ Carson "Awesome Sauce"24
40Natalie Haas "Kevin & Mícheál / Wayne’s Jig"24
41Tessa Lark "Hysedelje"24
42Jake Eddy "Liquor Cellar"23
43Maura Shawn Scanlin "We've Got Our Friends"23
44April Verch "Horse and Buggy-O"22
45Tim O'Brien "Little Lamb Little Lamb"22
46Noah Fishman "Sweet Nell"21
47Theodore Nehemiah "From Here"20
48Mile Twelve "Romulus"19
49Don Reno "I Couldn't Win"19
50Special Consensus "Pretty Kate And The Rabbit"19
51Jody Stecher "Yellow Gal"19
52Nick Dumas "Bozeman"18
53Cheeta "March Song"17
54Rachel Baiman "Old Songs Never Die"17
55Songs From The Road Band "Someday When"16
56Mark Evitts "Two-Seat Bicycle"16
57Kendl Winter "Humming Mantra"16
58Rick Faris "Hellfire Club"16
59Cup O’Joe "Azazel's Escape"15
60Bill Evans "Along Came Sonny"15
61The Talking Hearts "For the Right Price I'm Free"15
62Cutter & Cash and The Kentucky Grass "Call of Kentucky"15
63Chandler Beavers "Commencement"15
64Alison Brown "Sweet Sixteenths"14
65Wilbur Habakkuk "Now In Prison"14
66Zoe & Cloyd "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"13
67Elise Leavy "How Many Waltzes is Too Many Waltzes"13
68Alexandre Curuma "Tortuga Way"13
69Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band "Robin's Egg"13
70Michael Cleveland "Thousand Dollar Holler"13
71Chris Coole "It's My Lazy Day"12
72Juniper Tree "Blue Ridge Lullaby"12
73Miles Over Mountains "Best I Can"12
74Darren Nicholson "Second Wind"12
75Audie Blaylock And Redline "Red Rover"12
76Ben Garnett "Open Your Books"12
77Beau Cheval "Mort Dans Le Fossé"12
78Andy Hall "Up in Bigfoot Country"12
79Open String Department "Lessons"11
80Anthony Simpkins "Beneath the Willows (GemsOnVHS Field Recording)"11
81The Reno Family "Drifting with the Tide"11
82Darrell Scott "Banjo in the Holler"11
83Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road "Crooked as You Go"11
84Ethan Setiawan "Golden"11
85Geraldine Obadiah "Some things"10
86Danny Roberts "West Virginia Red"10
87The Del McCoury Band "Sally Jo"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.
 
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.)