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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#8 uk americana
#8uk americana
#12nashville singer-songwriter
#16pop folk
#23boston folk
#24north carolina roots
#29irish singer-songwriter
#34modern folk rock
#42new americana
#50stomp and flutter
#53alternative americana
#64british singer-songwriter
#64indie folk
#66kentucky roots
#69austin americana
#71deep new americana
#78ectofolk
#80queer country
#81canadian singer-songwriter
#85nashville americana
#98acoustic pop
2023 in UK Americana   playlist
#trackscore
1Aoife O'Donovan "IOWA"114
2Lawson Hull "Time Zones"97
3William Prince "When You Miss Someone"72
4Jess Williamson "Chasing Spirits"69
5Craig Stickland "Colorblind"67
6Jolé "This City"63
7Fruit Bats "We Used to Live Here"62
8Meg McRee "Mary Jane & Chardonnay"59
9Matt Holubowski "My Burrow"58
10Ruston Kelly "Mending Song"55
11Mipso "Carolina Rolling By"55
12Marc Scibilia "Naomi"55
13Sophia James "Clockwork"55
14Leith Ross "Ask First"54
15Tommy Ashby "Floorboards"54
16Philip Brooks "swallow me whole"54
17Down Like Silver "First Light"54
18Jonathan Terrell "Falling Snow in Santa Fe"50
19Birdtalker "Wake Up Child"50
20Robert Ellis "On The Run"50
21SYML "Tragic Magic"49
22Roo Panes "Our Time"47
23The Paper Kites "Hurts So Good"47
24Laura Aston "Nothing Else Matters"47
25The Milk Carton Kids "Will You Remember Me?"46
26Maple Glider "You're Gonna Be A Daddy"45
27Maz O'Connor "Santorini"44
28Euan Blackman "Everybody Lets You Down"44
29Rosemary & Garlic "Summer"44
30Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors "On a Roll"43
31Edwin Raphael "Homesick for the Place I Don't Even Know (feat. Sam Valdez)"43
32KONL "Wild Garlic"43
33Nanuk "Young"42
34Brett Dennen "This Is Going To Be The Year"41
35Bekah Bossard "Venus"41
36Stu Larsen "You're My Winter"41
37Megan McKenna "Crazy Life"41
38Fiona O' Connell "Easily"40
39Abraham Alexander "Tears Run Dry"40
40Old Sea Brigade "Stayed Up Late - Sunrise Version"40
41Kate McGill "Roadkill"40
42Elles Bailey "Spinning Stopped"40
43Angelo De Augustine "The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill"39
44Ryan Harris "Alone"39
45Bear's Den "Evelyn"39
46Belle Mt. "Feathers"39
47The Bones of J.R. Jones "The Good Life"39
48Abigail Lapell "Blinding Lights"38
49Joy Oladokun "Taking Things For Granted"38
50Feist "Hiding Out In The Open"38
51Rhiannon Giddens "You're the One"38
52The Revivalists "Down In The Dirt"37
53Juniper "Paint Me"37
54Good Dog "All The Tired Horses"37
55Ken Yates "Fairweather"37
56Josh Ritter "Strong Swimmer"37
57Parker Millsap "So Far Apart"37
58Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats "Slow Pace Of Time [Feat. Charlie Gabriel]"37
59Arny Margret "i went outside"37
60Jacob Cook "Gone"36
61Trousdale "If You're Hurting"36
62Adam Melchor "BIGTIMEGOODTIME"36
63PJ Harding "It Wasn't Enough"36
64Blanco White "Tarifa"35
65Chartreuse "All Seeing All The Time"35
66Molly Tuttle "El Dorado"35
67M. Ward "too young to die"35
68Salt Tree "Coming Home to You"35
69Caroline Spence "There's Always Room - Alternate Version"35
70The Ballroom Thieves "Peregrine - Undone"34
71Oliver Hazard "Saratoga"34
72Laura Alden "Canada"34
73Gemma Hayes "High & Low"34
74Nickel Creek "Celebrants"34
75Gregory Alan Isakov "The Fall"34
76Kingfishr "Headlands"34
77Hayden Calnin "A Turning of the Tide"34
78Cat Clyde "Everywhere I Go"34
79Matthew And The Atlas "Folding Unfolding"33
80Luke Sital-Singh "Til the Day I Die"33
81Liang Lawrence "(not) a love song - live & acoustic"33
82Darlingside "Eliza I See"33
83Benedict Benjamin "Sad Song"33
84Sunny War "Whole"33
85Sumbuck "Hey Honey"33
86Sam Fender "Little Bull Of Blithe"33
87Ward Thomas "All Over Again"32
88The Slow Show "Builder Boy"32
89Aisha Badru "Lazy River"32
90Caitlin Canty "Pull the Moon"32
91Ida Mae "Lost On Your Time"32
92S.G. Goodman "Take It Away - Pt. B"32
93I'm With Her "Wake Me When It's Over"31
94Riley Pearce "Habit"31
95Zoe Konez "Easy To Learn"31
96Abigail Osborn "Bad Lover (Acoustic)"31
97Julia Pratt "Would It Kill Ya"30
98Rachel Sermanni "Jacob"30
99Swimmingly "My Heart Can't Take A Hint"30
100j ember "Should've Drowned"30



















 
 
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.)