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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#14 c86
#14c86
#24london indie
#25bristol indie
#40garage psych
#48twee pop
#54american post-punk
#54chamber psych
#61uk post-punk revival
#75crank wave
#77irish indie rock
#80modern jangle pop
2023 in C86   playlist
#trackscore
1The Popguns "Caesar"91
2The Telephone Numbers "Weird Sisters"84
3The Wedding Present "Memento Mori"64
4Galore "Ladders"50
5The Reds, Pinks and Purples "The Town That Cursed Your Name"46
6Comet Gain "Your Just Lonely"44
7Teenage Fanclub "Foreign Land"42
8The Umbrellas "Three Cheers!"41
9The Cat's Miaow "Between the Stations and the Silence"39
10The Lost Days "In the Store"38
11Ballboy "I've Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear"37
12Ducks Ltd. "Invitation"36
13Cindy "Earthly Belonging"36
14Holiday Ghosts "Favourite Freak"35
15The Smashing Times "Glorious Tales Of Wes"34
16The Laughing Chimes "Arboretum Miles"34
17Blues Lawyer "Chance Encounters"31
18The Lilac Time "A Makeshift Raft"31
19The Clientele "Blue Over Blue"31
20The High Water Marks "Trouble From The East"31
21Seablite "Melancholy Molly"31
22The Tubs "Dead Meat"31
23Whitney's Playland "Sunset Sea Breeze"29
24Primal Scream "Velocity Girl - Janice Long BBC Radio 1 Session July 1986"28
25Jeanines "What The Echoes Say"28
26Lightheaded "Mercury Girl"28
27The Ballet "Two Boyfriends"27
28The Cleaners From Venus "The Beautiful Stoned"27
29Mozart Estate "Vanilla Gorilla"27
30The Boo Radleys "How Was I To Know"26
31Chime School "Coming To Your Town"25
32The Particles "Truth About You"25
33Panic Pocket "Mad Half Hour"24
34The Fall "Hitmen (Dream)"24
35Terry "Centuries"23
36Robert Forster "The Roads"22
37Flyying Colours "Do You Feel The Same"22
38Purling Hiss "Baby"21
39Hydroplane "Stars (Twilight Mix)"21
40Spiral XP "Deja Vu"21
41The Photocopies "This, That, And The Other"21
42The Churchhill Garden "Keep The Faith"21
43Special Friend "Selkie"20
44Swansea Sound "Keep Your Head On"20
45Tough Age "Which Way Am I?"19
46Pia Fraus "French Exit"19
47Pale Blue Eyes "Takes Me Over"19
48bar italia "Clark"19
49En Attendant Ana "Same Old Story"19
50The Woodentops "Ride A Cloud - Radio Edit"19
51The Blue Aeroplanes "Half a Crown"19
52Lloyd Cole "Warm by the Fire"18
53Soft Science "Sadness"18
54Blue Ocean "Fertile State"18
55Jim Bob "Thanks For Reaching Out"18
56Pale Saints "Kinky Love - Demo"18
57Tee Vee Repairmann "Bus Stop"18
58Constant Smiles "In My Heart"17
59Sharp Pins "You Turned off the Light"17
60Touch Girl Apple Blossom "Dream From an Eyelash"17
61The Crying Nudes "Unabomber II"17
62BMX Bandits "Spinning Through Time"17
63The Radio Field "Other One"17
64Mo Troper "For You To Sing"16
65Guided By Voices "Seedling"16
66Tony Jay "Perfect Worlds"16
67deary "Fairground"16
68Children Maybe Later "West MacArthur"16
69Drop Nineteens "Scapa Flow"16
70The Soup Dragons "Love Is Love"16
71Hamish Hawk "Rest & Veneers"16
72Sumos "Finding A Way"15
73Ulrika Spacek "Accidental Momentary Blur"15
74Teen Angst "Home In A Minute"15
75Sparklehorse "Evening Star Supercharger"15
76The Monochrome Set "Fantasy Creatures"15
77The Church "I Think I Knew"15
78Bonny Doon "Crooked Creek"15
79Sweeping Promises "Eraser"14
80Jonnine "I Put a Little Thing in Your Pocket"14
81The Sounds They Made "Nektar"14
82Yo La Tengo "Aselestine"14
83Lewsberg "An Ear To The Chest"14
84The Teardrop Explodes "Suffocate (With Strings) - Baroque Version / Hugh Jones / Spring 1982"13
85Belle and Sebastian "When We Were Very Young"13
86Lael Neale "I Am The River"13
87Letting Up Despite Great Faults "Ricochet"13
88Cory Hanson "Housefly"13
89PACKS "Say My Name"13
90Tanukichan "Nothing to Lose"13
91Cola "Keys Down If You Stay"13
92Colored Lights "Primitive Move"12
93Another Sunny Day "Burn me"12
94The Toads "Nationalsville"12
95The National Honor Society "As She Slips Away"12
96The Jesus and Mary Chain "Sometimes Always (feat. Isobel Campbell) [Live at Hollywood Palladium]"12
97The Feelies "Rock & Roll"12
98The Bluebells "Daddy Was an Engineer"12
99Crocodiles "Degeneration"12
100BC Camplight "The Last Rotation Of Earth"12



















 
 
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.)