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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#43 old-time
#43old-time
#45string band
#50modern old-time
#55contemporary folk
#56old-time fiddle
#68mandolin
#77instrumental bluegrass
#78clawhammer banjo
#80bluegrass
#80bluegrass fiddle
#82appalachian folk
#93banjo
2023 in Old-Time   playlist
#trackscore
1Trey Holiday "Hometown Roots"304
2Sami Braman "Duck House"297
3Lonesome Ace Stringband "Lonesome Ace #1"236
4Stone & Sue "Alto Waltz"201
5Natalie Padilla "Farewell Princeton"186
6Meredith Moon "Needlecase/ Blue Goose"171
7Termosa Zartholomew "Hell In The Years"159
8Tim Stafford "Old Forge"139
9The Country Gentlemen "Matterhorn"130
10George Jackson "Hartford's Bend"126
11Benny Bleu "Winder Slide"123
12Mild Goose Chase "Cindy / Rat Cheese Under the Hill"112
13Nora Brown "Lady of the Lake"99
14Forty Drop Few "Merry Girl"85
15April Verch "Horse and Buggy-O"83
16Bill Evans "Along Came Sonny"78
17Joe K. Walsh "If Not Now, Who?"74
18Mighty Poplar "Little Joe"74
19Nick Dumas "Bozeman"72
20Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves "Sunnyside"70
21Special Consensus "Pretty Kate And The Rabbit"69
22East Nash Grass "Railroadin' & Gamblin'"65
23Michael Cleveland "Thousand Dollar Holler"63
24The Reno Family "Sundown and Sorrow"60
25Chandler Beavers "Commencement"59
26Erik Hill "Stay Cruisin'"59
27Two Runner "Shakin’ Down the Acorns"58
28Larry Sparks "Gotta Move"56
29Béla Bartók "44 Duets for Two Violins, Sz. 98: Book IV: No. 43, Pizzicato"56
30ALL ABOARD "Winder Slide / Hawk Is a Mule"55
31Ben Krakauer "Brushy"54
32Alexandre Curuma "Tortuga Way"54
33Andy Hall "Up in Bigfoot Country"53
34Jonny Miller "1849 Overture - Instrumental Version"52
35Zoe & Cloyd "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"51
36Hannah Read "Stinkhorn"51
37Cory Walker "Far Away Again"49
38Water Tower "My Little Girl in Tennessee - Live"49
39Don Reno "I Couldn't Win"47
40Maura Shawn Scanlin "We've Got Our Friends"46
41Audie Blaylock And Redline "Red Rover"44
42Alison Brown "Foggy Morning Breaking"44
43Tim O'Brien "Little Lamb Little Lamb"44
44Viv & Riley "Chance Creek"42
45Caroline Owens "Heartbreak Train"42
46Darren Nicholson "Arkansas Without You"42
47Anthony Simpkins "Beneath the Willows (GemsOnVHS Field Recording)"42
48Rachel Baiman "Old Songs Never Die"40
49Ethan Setiawan "Golden"40
50Tray Wellington "Moon in Motion 1"39
51Beau Cheval "Mort Dans Le Fossé"39
52gimlet "kotonikiduku"39
53Zachary Brown "Neef"39
54Balsam Range "Snake Charmer"38
55The Del McCoury Band "Sally Jo"38
56Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass "What Crosses Your Mind"37
57The Gina Furtado Project "True Life Blues"36
58Rick Faris "Don't Hold Back"34
59Mile Twelve "Take Me as I Am"33
60Natalie Haas "Free Space / Reel for Dennis"32
61The Kody Norris Show "I Call Her Sunshine"32
62Missy Raines "These Ole Blues"32
63Jake Eddy "Liquor Cellar"32
64The Infamous Stringdusters "Will You Be Lonesome Too"31
65MUSIC FOR TV "CHESTNUT MANOLIN (LOVE IS IN THE MEADOW 3) - Radio Edit"30
66Russ Carson "Awesome Sauce"30
67firekid "Chemical Plant Zone"30
68Sister Sadie "Well"30
69Theodore Nehemiah "From Here"30
70Benson "Icy Cold"30
71Lost and Found "Put It Off Until Tomorrow"30
72Cutter & Cash and The Kentucky Grass "Call of Kentucky"29
73Caitlin Canty "Odds of Getting Even"29
74Arkansauce "My Home in Arkansas"29
75Sam Shackleton "The Lone Prairie"27
76Boone & Foster "Uncle Pen"27
77Billy Droze "It's Ok To Be Ok"27
78Lindley Creek "Fare Thee Well"27
79Connor Jay Liess "The Wreck of the Old 97"26
80Nothin' Fancy "Crash and Burn"26
81Robbie Fulks "Lonely Ain't Hardly Alive"25
82Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers "Let Time Ride"25
83Jody Stecher "The Weight Of The Years"24
84Kendl Winter "Humming Mantra"24
85Ben Garnett "Open Your Books"24
86Chris Coole "Old Dog"23
87The Kentucky Colonels "Ruben's Train"23
88Blue Highway "Lonesome State Of Mind"23
89Molly Tuttle "San Joaquin"23
90Jason Dea West "Out on the Range"22
91Alice Gerrard "Sun to Sun"22
92Olivia Ellen Lloyd "A Few Old Memories"22
93Danny Roberts "My Brown Eyed Darling"21
94Lonesome River Band "Near Mrs."21
95Carley Arrowood "Tsali's Run"21
96Matt Heckler "I Tried - GemsOnVHS field recording"21
97Wicker Suite "Ghost Train"21
98Billy Swinson "Greener Grass"21
99Addie Levy "Blue Mountain"20
100David Brimer "Marigold Hair"19



















 
 
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.)