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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#4 alternative americana
#4alternative americana
#6nashville singer-songwriter
#6new england americana
#15progressive bluegrass
#19north carolina roots
#22canadian americana
#25women's music
#27nashville americana
#36boston folk
#36modern old-time
#46neo-traditional bluegrass
#48contemporary folk
#49ectofolk
#49midwest americana
#56banjo
#63bluegrass
#69canadian indie folk
#69jamgrass
#72mandolin
#73old-time
#75western americana
#82instrumental bluegrass
#85queer country
#90uk americana
#100canadian singer-songwriter
2023 in Alternative Americana   playlist
#trackscore
1Jonathan Terrell "Falling Snow in Santa Fe"152
2Cat Clyde "Mystic Light"135
3Kassi Valazza "Early Morning Rising"126
4Caitlin Canty "Pull the Moon"120
5Bella White "Flowers On My Bedside"119
6Margo Cilker "Lowland Trail"118
7Hiss Golden Messenger "Nu-Grape"117
8Dean Johnson "Faraway Skies"116
9Mary Elizabeth Remington "Dresser Hill"111
10Jess Williamson "God in Everything"109
11Rachel Baiman "Some Strange Notion"108
12Brit Taylor "Ain't a Hard Livin'"107
13Bonny Light Horseman "Once on Another Day"106
14Purr "The Natural"104
15The Watson Twins "The Palace"104
16Bonny Doon "You Can't Stay The Same"104
17Margo Price "Hands On The Wheel (Feat. Particle Kid) (Recorded at Luck Reunion) - Spotify Singles"99
18Josh Ritter "For Your Soul"99
19Nate Fredrick "Paint the Town"99
20Parker Millsap "So Far Apart"98
21Mighty Poplar "Up on the Divide"97
22Fruit Bats "Rushin' River Valley"97
23Langhorne Slim "Sundown"96
24Dutch Interior "I'll Be Damned"95
25Molly Tuttle "El Dorado"95
26Sunny War "New Day"93
27Rhiannon Giddens "You're the One"93
28I'm With Her "Wake Me When It's Over"92
29Aoife O'Donovan "I Love You But I'm Lost"92
30Sam Blasucci "Turn Yourself Around"91
31Peter One "Cherie Vico"89
32Abigail Lapell "Blinding Lights"89
33Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING "Reconcile"88
34Eilen Jewell "Winnemucca"88
35Esther Rose "Chet Baker"88
36Mapache "People Please"88
37Allison Russell "The Returner"86
38The Wood Brothers "Heart is the Hero"86
39Rodney Crowell "You’re Supposed To Be Feeling Good"85
40Iris DeMent "Workin' On A World"85
41S.G. Goodman "Take It Away - Pt. B"84
42Trudy and the Romance "Love You Now"84
43Rissi Palmer "Still Here"83
44Caroline Spence "There's Always Room - Alternate Version"82
45H.C. McEntire "Shadows"82
46Sierra Ferrell "The Sea - Alternative Version"81
47Esmé Patterson "Circles"81
48Early James "One Trip Pony"79
49The Milk Carton Kids "When You're Gone"79
50Logan Ledger "Some Misty Morning [Feat. Erin Rae]"79
51Old Crow Medicine Show "Miles Away"78
52Jeffrey Silverstein "Cowboy Grass"77
53Meg McRee "Mary Jane & Chardonnay"77
54Edwin Raphael "Homesick for the Place I Don't Even Know (feat. Sam Valdez)"77
55Anna St. Louis "Phone"76
56Down Like Silver "First Light"74
57Cut Worms "Ballad of the Texas King"74
58Jeremie Albino "You I'm Waiting On"74
59Dream Sitch "Sideways"74
60The War and Treaty "Whiskey River (Recorded At Luck Reunion) - Spotify Singles"73
61Mipso "Carolina Rolling By"73
62Amanda Shires "Summertime"73
63Rattlesnake Milk "On the Road"71
64Tianna Esperanza "Buy You A New Attitude"71
65Two Runner "Wild Dream"69
66Buck Meek "Haunted Mountain"69
67Nathaniel Rateliff "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"69
68South for Winter "Underneath the Blood Moon"69
69Tommy Prine "This Far South"68
70Micah P. Hinson "Find Your Way Out"67
71Tiny Ruins "The Crab / Waterbaby"67
72Dougie Poole "Nothing on This Earth Can Make Me Smile"67
73Jolie Holland "Highway 72"67
74Bruce Cockburn "On a Roll"66
75Palmyra "Happy Pills"65
76Chris Staples "Souvenir"65
77Forest Sun "All the Mornings Have an Echo"65
78Jonathan Peyton "Since You've Been Gone"65
79The Pink Stones "Roses & Poppies"65
80Deer Tick "Forgiving Ties"64
81Bryan Andrews "Love Me Today"64
82The Band Of Heathens "Heartless Year"64
83The Heavy Heavy "Go Down River - Acoustic"64
84Kevin Morby "Five Easy Pieces Revisited"63
85Rose City Band "Chasing Rainbows"63
86The Ballroom Thieves "Peregrine - Undone"63
87North Americans "The Last Rockabilly"63
88The Bones of J.R. Jones "Heaven Help Me"63
89Cory Walker "Tried to Ruin My Name"62
90Lo Noom "So Long"62
91Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats "Slow Pace Of Time [Feat. Charlie Gabriel]"62
92Brooke Bentham "Let Go"62
93King Tuff "Tell Me"61
94j ember "Should've Drowned"61
95Ken Yates "Fairweather"60
96Fenne Lily "Pick"60
97Gabe Lee "Drink The River"60
98The Nude Party "Ride On"60
99M. Ward "supernatural thing"60
100Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real "Alcohallelujah"60



















 
 
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.)