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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lists
#25 new weird america
#25new weird america
#44freak folk
#63ambient folk
#97drone folk
2023 in New Weird America   playlist
#trackscore
1Josephine Foster "Pendulum"108
2Shana Cleveland "A Ghost"77
3Timber Timbre "Ask The Community"71
4Mary Elizabeth Remington "Dresser Hill"71
5Dream Sitch "Panicking Gong"63
6Ora Cogan "Cowgirl"62
7Spencer Cullum "Betwixt and Between"62
8Jonnine "I Put a Little Thing in Your Pocket"61
9The Saxophones "Desert Flower"61
10Otto Benson "Good Night Mantra"61
11Dutch Interior "I'll Be Damned"61
12Mariee Sioux "Circle of Signs"57
13Dick Stusso "A Fairly Normal Guy"57
14This Is The Kit "Careful Of Your Keepers"57
15Kevin Morby "Dance With Me Child"56
16Lael Neale "White T-Shirt"56
17Steve Gunn "Over the Dune"56
18Hana Stretton "Captain was a Cow"55
19Meg Baird "Ashes, Ashes"54
20Alabaster DePlume "Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem"54
21Jeffrey Silverstein "Cowboy Grass"54
22Y La Bamba "Hues (feat. Devendra Banhart)"51
23John Parish "Three Hours"51
24Josiah Steinbrick "Please, Sing a Little Longer"50
25Shannon Lay "Angeles"50
26Tony Njoku "Lost Forever"50
27Anika "Choc-A-Bloc"50
28Michael Hurley "Got Over It"49
29Golden Brown "Glass Frog"48
30Gia Margaret "Hinoki Wood"48
31Leland Whitty "Svalbard"47
32The Crying Nudes "Unabomber II"47
33Dylan Henner "With Her First Ever Steps She Walked To Me and She Was So Happy"46
34North Americans "The Living End"46
35Devendra Banhart "Twin"46
36Peel Dream Magazine "You Really Mean It"46
37Arthur Russell "The Boy With a Smile"45
38Trust Fund "late nite skate"45
39Tiny Ruins "In Light Of Everything"45
40Rahill "Libra Sun"45
41Sam Evian "Life Go Low"44
42PACKS "Say My Name"44
43Flaer "Follow"42
44Allegra Krieger "Lingering"42
45Andy Shauf "All Of My Love"41
46Zenitude "Sleepless Night"40
47Wombo "Wolfe Ave 40"40
48Sam Burton "Maria"40
49Hand Habits "Private Life"40
50Bonny Doon "Naturally"40
51M. Ward "lifeline"39
52Bonnie Prince Billy "Crazy Blue Bells"39
53Angel Olsen "Nothing's Free"39
54Luis Navidad "Sleep Thief"39
55The Lost Days "For Today"38
56Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru "Quand La Mer Furieuse"38
57Laraaji "Koto (Glimpse)"38
58Coco "Death In The Family"38
59Mary Lattimore "And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me"38
60great area "follow your nature"38
61Anna St. Louis "Better Days"37
62Bill Orcutt "What Do You Do With Memory"37
63Vashti Bunyan "How Could You Let Me Go"37
64Cut Worms "Ballad of the Texas King"37
65Decisive Pink "Voice Message"36
66Mega Bog "Cactus People"36
67Woods "Between The Past"36
68Julia Jacklin "Shivers"36
69Mark McGuire "Shallow Where It Should Be Deep"36
70Lomelda "Scaredy's World"35
71The Clientele "Blue Over Blue"35
72Rozi Plain "Standing Up"34
73King Tuff "Love Letters To Plants"34
74John Andrews & The Yawns "Checks in the Mail"34
75Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden "Close"34
76Naima Bock "Lines"34
77Faten Kanaan "Falconers"34
78Cory Hanson "Housefly"33
79Hayden Pedigo "The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored"33
80Joanne Robertson "Blue Car"33
81Yo La Tengo "Aselestine"33
82Sam Blasucci "Turn Yourself Around"33
83Alela Diane "Of Love - Demo"32
84Anna B Savage "Pavlov's Dog"32
85Luluc "Moonbeam"32
86Julie Byrne "The Greater Wings"32
87Joanna Sternberg "I've Got Me"32
88Lady Apple Tree "Didn't Want to Have to Do It"32
89Modern Cosmology "A Time To Blossom"31
90The Greg Foat Group "Milk and Honey"31
91Lutalo "Darkeve Duet"31
92Drugdealer "Lip Service"30
93Sparklehorse "Evening Star Supercharger"29
94Junior Mesa "Quit Your Job, Runaway!"29
95Big Blood "1000 Times"29
96John Roseboro "Waters of March"29
97Dean Blunt "PRESSED"29
98Maxine Funke "Call On You"29
99Ssaliva "twisted stars"29
100Jeff Parker "Alberta"29



















 
 
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.)