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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2023 in Solo Wave   playlist
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1Ian Brown "RULES"76
2Gaz Coombes "Turn The Car Around"70
3The Coral "Wild Bird"67
4Steve Mason "The People Say"65
5Richard Hawley "Not the Only Road"64
6BC Camplight "The Last Rotation Of Earth"52
7Lloyd Cole "Warm by the Fire"50
8Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds "Pretty Boy - Robert Smith Remix"49
9James "She's A Star - Orchestral Version"48
10Galen & Paul "Lonely Town"46
11Johnny Marr "Somewhere"46
12Teenage Fanclub "Foreign Land"45
13Public Image Ltd. "Hawaii"44
14Dexys "I'm Going To Get Free"40
15Hamish Hawk "Money"40
16Pale Blue Eyes "More"39
17A Certain Ratio "SAMO"38
18Mantra of the Cosmos "Gorilla Guerilla"37
19Belle and Sebastian "When We Were Very Young"37
20Baxter Dury "Aylesbury Boy"36
21The Reds, Pinks and Purples "Too Late for an Early Grave"36
22The WAEVE "Over And Over"34
23The Clientele "Blue Over Blue"34
24Grian Chatten "The Score"33
25Gruff Rhys "I Want My Old Life Back"33
26The The "$1 One Vote!"32
27Fontaines D.C. "' Cello Song"32
28The Church "I Think I Knew"32
29Philip Selway "Picking Up Pieces"31
30PJ Harvey "A Child's Question, August"31
31Shed Seven "Kissing California"31
32John Parish "Three Hours"31
33The Slow Readers Club "Lay Your Troubles on Me"30
34Bill Ryder-Jones "This Can’t Go On"30
35THE GOA EXPRESS "Portrait"30
36Gina Birch "I Play My Bass Loud"29
37The Veils "No Limit of Stars"29
38Sparklehorse "Evening Star Supercharger"28
39Everything But The Girl "Caution To The Wind"28
40This Is The Kit "Inside Outside"28
41Blur "The Heights"28
42Liam Gallagher "I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier Mama, I Don’t Wanna Die - Stripped Back Session"27
43Lael Neale "I Am The River"27
44Robert Forster "The Roads"27
45The Jesus and Mary Chain "Sometimes Always (feat. Isobel Campbell) [Live at Hollywood Palladium]"26
46Billy Nomates "vertigo"26
47Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark "Bauhaus Staircase"26
48Sparks "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte"26
49Reverend And The Makers "A Letter To My 21 Year Old Self"24
50John Cale "NOISE OF YOU"24
51King Creosote "Blue Marbled Elm Trees"24
52bdrmm "Be Careful"24
53Miles Kane "Troubled Son"24
54Creep Show "Yawning Abyss"23
55Pretenders "Let the Sun Come In"23
56The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project "On the Other Side"22
57Mike Lindsay "Saturday Sun"22
58Hot Chip "Line In The Sand"22
59Andy Bell "Tidal Love Conversation In That Familiar Golden Orchard - Edit"21
60Iraina Mancini "Cannonball"21
61Shana Cleveland "A Ghost"21
62The Bug Club "Out In The Streets"21
63Teleman "Trees Grow High"21
64Nation of Language "Sole Obsession"21
65The Raveonettes "Do You Believe Her"21
66English Teacher "Song About Love"20
67The Dream Machine "Lola, In The Morning"20
68The Lemonheads "Being Around - Alternative"20
69Joel Stoker "My Own War"20
70deary "Fairground"19
71The Lathums "Struggle - Single Version"19
72DEADLETTER "The Snitching Hour"19
73Far From Saints "Let's Turn This Back Around"19
74Marta "Moving Through Water"19
75John Grant "Day Is Done"19
76Sleaford Mods "Force 10 From Navarone"19
77dEUS "1989"19
78Dry Cleaning "Swampy"19
79Lol Tolhurst "Los Angeles (feat. James Murphy)"19
80The Murder Capital "Return My Head"18
81Tom Meighan "Everyone's Addicted To Something"18
82Jim Bob "Thanks For Reaching Out"18
83The Saxophones "Desert Flower"18
84Cast "Love Is The Call"18
85Prima Queen "Dylan"18
86The Black Angels "My Tornado"18
87Nabihah Iqbal "This World Couldn’t See Us"18
88Jonathan Wilson "Marzipan"18
89Cowboy Junkies "What I Lost"17
90Yo La Tengo "Aselestine"17
91Afflecks Palace "Wide Eyes On The Night Bus"17
92Warmduscher "Love Strong"17
93Death Valley Girls "Magic Powers"17
94Project Gemini "After The Dawn"17
95Anna B Savage "Pavlov's Dog"17
96Tribes "Hard Pill"17
97Iggy Pop "Morning Show"17
98Kevin Morby "This Is A Photograph II"17
99Ghost Woman "The End of a Gun - Edit"17
100The Boo Radleys "How Was I To Know"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.
 
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(PS: It's not even too late for 2022, 2021, 2020 or 2019.)