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.
vantages  
 
lists
#2 tape club
#2tape club
#6lo-fi
#7gbvfi
#10c86
#10twee pop
#16modern power pop
#18alternative pop
#18chicago indie
#18power pop
#27scottish indie
#29noise pop
#32countrygaze
#33garage psych
#34jangle pop
#35cosmic american
#36bay area indie
#37no wave
#43modern psychedelic folk
#45freak folk
#51anti-folk
#51dunedin sound
#54experimental rock
#55new weird america
#57art punk
#58psychedelic folk rock
#60new jersey indie
#60paisley underground
#61oakland indie
#62bubblegrunge
#62slowcore
#64post-punk
#80drone folk
#84modern jangle pop
#84small room
#85noise rock
#87experimental indie
#91indie punk
#94uk post-punk
#95philly indie
#96protopunk
2023 in Tape Club   playlist
#trackscore
1The Crying Nudes "Unabomber II"24
2The Lost Days "For Today"23
3The Sounds They Made "Nektar"21
4The Telephone Numbers "Weird Sisters"20
5PACKS "Say My Name"20
6bar italia "Missus Morality"19
7Dean Blunt "Smile Please"18
8Jonnine "I Put a Little Thing in Your Pocket"17
9Ducks Ltd. "Invitation"16
10Cindy "Earthly Belonging"16
11The Reds, Pinks and Purples "The Town That Cursed Your Name"16
12untitled (halo) "el prado freestyle"16
13Horse Jumper of Love "I Poured Sugar In Your Shoes - Last Night Version"16
14Tanukichan "Nothing to Lose"15
15The Clientele "Blue Over Blue"15
16The Cat's Miaow "Between the Stations and the Silence"15
17Hotline TNT "If We Keep Hangin Out"15
18feeble little horse "Tin Man"14
19Yo La Tengo "Aselestine"13
20The Cleaners From Venus "The Beautiful Stoned"13
21Ssaliva "twisted stars"13
22Otto Benson "Orange Moon"13
23The Popguns "Caesar"12
24Toner "Brian's Song"12
25Sharp Pins "You Turned off the Light"12
26Greg Mendez "Maria"12
27Jeanines "What The Echoes Say"12
28Mo Troper "For You To Sing"12
29Joanne Robertson "Blue Car"12
30speakerhug "glassheart"12
31NINA "Slur"12
32Arthur Russell "The Boy With a Smile"12
33The Tubs "Dead Meat"12
34Blues Lawyer "Chance Encounters"11
35Daniel Johnston "Mountain Top (BBC Radio 1 Live Session)"11
36Wombo "Slab"11
37Lots of Hands "mole"11
38Hydroplane "Stars (Twilight Mix)"11
39Eterna "I remember your name"11
40Teenage Fanclub "Foreign Land"11
41RIP Swirl "Let's Make Out"10
42The Smashing Times "Glorious Tales Of Wes"10
43Sweeping Promises "Eraser"10
44great area "shipping"10
45Dutch Interior "I'll Be Damned"10
46Wednesday "TV in the Gas Pump"10
47Bonny Doon "Crooked Creek"10
48Comet Gain "Your Just Lonely"10
49Terry "Centuries"10
50Purling Hiss "Baby"10
51Dead Sullivan "Make You Happy"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.)