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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#11 traditional british folk
#11traditional british folk
#12traditional english folk
#24yorkshire folk
#25orkney and shetland folk
#27scottish fiddle
#38scottish folk
#51danish folk
#51irish fiddle
#53irish neo-traditional
#54jig and reel
#57irish flute
#61concertina
#64nyckelharpa
#64uilleann pipes
#72puirt-a-beul
#79balfolk
2023 in Traditional British Folk   playlist
#trackscore
1Megson "Anastasia & William"595
2The Young'uns "Trespassers"330
3Jack Rutter "Bold Nevison The Highwayman"304
4Leveret "Bass Hornpipe"288
5Martin Simpson "I Whipped My Horse"208
6Tarah Sawyer "Philippians 4:6-7"199
7Salt House "Birch Lines"190
8Reg Meuross "England No More"171
9Ninebarrow "Among the Boughs"168
10Kris Drever "Catterline"164
11Sam Sweeney "Shape #4 (G)"154
12Merry Hell "Stand Down"152
13Rachel Cumberland "Range Of Buffalo Owen"142
14Show Of Hands "Columbus (Didn't Find America)"137
15Hack-Poets Guild "Hemp & Flax"118
16Ben Walker "The Way Through The Woods"111
17Lauren MacColl "The Lost Bell / Women of the Shore"109
18Jon Wilks "Johnny Sands"104
19Henry Purcell "How Blest Are Shepherds (Arr. for Voice and Chamber Ensemble by Rebecca Scout Nelson)"101
20Jodie Fox "Irish Goodbye"96
21Karine Polwart "Wind Blown"95
22Moonaroon "Lord Douglas"92
23Will Allen "Coleford Jig / the Ton"92
24Gilmore & Roberts "I'll Take What I Can Get"78
25Ben Nicholls "The Greenland Whale Fisheries"76
26The Furrow Collective "Halsway Carol"74
27Duncan Chisholm "Dusk on the Cuillin"73
28Windborne "World Turned Upside Down"72
29Doris Todd "Inactive"69
30Siskin Green "For those in peril"68
31Spell Songs "Heartwood - Live at The Natural History Museum"67
32Grace Smith Trio "Miss Cole’s"65
33John McCusker "Sprig of Thyme"64
34The Magpie Arc "Don't Leave The Door Open"62
35Westward the Light "Flow Country"61
36Alasdair Roberts "Drimindown"61
37Oaksun "Only Dream"60
38The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook "The Scarecrow Knows (Episode 1 Credits Edit)"59
39Nathaniel Joseph "Green and Gold"58
40Jenny Sturgeon "Beyond the You and I"56
41Bryony Griffith "Early Pearly"56
42Kathryn Tickell "One Night in Moaña"54
43The Rosie Hood Band "Lyddie Shears"53
44Jim Moray "Hind Etin"53
45Daoirí Farrell "Sullivan’s John"51
46Ward Knutur Townes "Paper Plane"51
47Kate Rusby "Hunting The Hare"51
48O'Hooley & Tidow "The Song Thrush"48
49Christina Alden & Alex Patterson "The Starless Sea"46
50Claire Hastings "My Little One"45
51Seth Lakeman "Days Ago - Edit"45
52Archie Churchill-Moss "Searching for Space // Cecil's Dream"45
53Dai Komatsu "Violet"43
54Unthank : Smith "What Maks Makems"41
55Rura "Think of Today"41
56Assynt "Nighean Donn"40
57Deangelo Albertie "New House"39
58Ross Ainslie "Lunny"38
59Gnoss "Hamnavoe"38
60Goldsmith Giles "Rest And Peace"38
61Harbottle and Jonas "Now The Green Blade Riseth"38
62Filkin's Ensemble "Wind & Rain"37
63Olivia Chaney "Marguerite"37
64Joshua Burnell "Looking Glass"35
65Jim Ghedi "Swale Song"33
66Martin Hayes "The Boyne Water"33
67Calum Stewart "Cille Chuimein"33
68Katherine Priddy "I Think They're Leaving Me Behind"33
69Ímar "Neachtain's Wing"31
70Graham Mackenzie "Earn River"31
71Will Pound "Blackthorn"30
72Dallahan "A Terrible Beauty"29
73Shirley Collins "High and Away"28
74Stick in the Wheel "The Cuckoo VIP - EAN Remix"28
75Lucy Farrell "Paperthin"27
76Thea Gilmore "The Chance"26
77Johnny Flynn "Cutty Wren"26
78Josienne Clarke "The Tangled Tree"25
79Sam Lee "Sweet Girl McRee"25
80McAnna´s Band "Baco"25
81The Brothers Gillespie "Bird on the Bough"24
82Rebecca Hill and Charlie Stewart "Out On The Roof"24
83Sound of The Sirens "Forgiven"24
84Ellie Gowers "The Stars Are Ours"23
85Geraldine Obadiah "Romance"23
86The Deadlians "The Shearers"22
87The Langan Band "Open Your Eyes"22
88Niall McCabe "The Ritual"21
89Karan Casey "Sister I Am Here for You"21
90Julie Fowlis "Who Is This?"21
91Dàimh "Chaidh Mis' a dh'Eubhal Imprig"20
92Iona Lane "Agar Main Panchi Hota / Lark in the Clear Air"20
93Lisa O'Neill "Silver Seed"20
94Caitríona Canavan "My Mother Told Me"20
95Beth Malcolm "Leavin' Loch Leven"19
96Valtos "Liberate"19
97Martyn Joseph "Albert's Place"19
98Trevor Beales "Sunlight on the Table"19
99GLIN "North Coast"19
100Malin Makes Music "Trans"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.)