2023 Around the World

The new or newly released music that defined, united and distinguished fan communities of place and interest around the world in 2023.

vantages ⥯

Luigi Boccherini

Dominican Republic

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Congo (Kinshasa)

Trinidad & Tobago

North Macedonia

Papua New Guinea

Congo (Brazzaville)

Solomon Islands

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

Sao Tome and Principe

United Arab Emirates

Antigua & Barbuda

US Virgin Islands

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Equatorial Guinea

lists

#5	wind ensemble
#5	wind ensemble
#9	austrian orchestra
#13	classical horn
#13	streichquartett
#15	classical clarinet
#18	classical bassoon
#21	czech classical
#28	historic orchestral performance
#31	austrian classical piano
#32	classical flute
#46	korean classical piano
#48	historic piano performance
#49	italian orchestra
#56	viola
#57	latin american classical piano
#57	symfonicky orchestr
#63	korean classical performance
#65	classical oboe
#68	historical keyboard
#72	italian violin
#78	italian classical piano
#85	chinese classical piano
#86	african-american classical
#89	israeli classical piano
#90	russian orchestra
#98	hungarian classical piano
#99	harpsichord

2023 in Wind Ensemble playlist

#	track	score
1	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Divertimento in B-Flat Major, K. 240: II. Andante Grazioso"	37
2	Joseph Haydn "Keyboard Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, Hob. XVI:36: II. Scherzando (Allegro con brio)"	34
3	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky "Sweet Dreams Op.39 No.21"	27
4	Johann Christian Bach "Bach, JC: Keyboard Concerto in F Major, Op. 7 No. 2: I. Allegro"	26
5	Luigi Boccherini "Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, G.29: III. Presto Assai"	24
6	Luigi Cherubini "Sonata No. 1 in F Major: I. Moderato"	22
7	Domenico Scarlatti "Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Kk. 280"	21
8	Baldassare Galuppi "Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Illy 27: III. Allegro assai"	20
9	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach "Fantasia in D Major, Wq.117/14 (H.160)"	19
10	Pablo de Sarasate "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454 I. Largo - Allegro (feat. 배민수)"	19
11	Paul Wranitzky "Das listige Bauernmädchen: No. 16b, Menuetto moderato"	19
12	The Singing Hat "Lazy Secrets"	17
13	Johannes Brahms "Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11: IV. Minuet 1 - Minuet 2"	13
14	Fanny Mendelssohn "Ostersonate in A Major, H-U 235: III. Allegretto"	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.)