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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#30 freak folk
#30freak folk
#49modern psychedelic folk
#58new weird america
#80ambient folk
2023 in Freak Folk   playlist
#trackscore
1Josephine Foster "Pendulum"36
2Dream Sitch "Panicking Gong"23
3Dutch Interior "I'll Be Damned"20
4Jeffrey Silverstein "Chet"20
5Dick Stusso "A Fairly Normal Guy"20
6Shana Cleveland "A Ghost"19
7Mary Elizabeth Remington "Dresser Hill"18
8Spencer Cullum "Betwixt and Between"18
9John Andrews & The Yawns "Starving Artist"18
10Woods "Between The Past"18
11Ora Cogan "Cowgirl"17
12Hana Stretton "Captain was a Cow"17
13Sam Evian "Life Go Low"16
14Mariee Sioux "Circle of Signs"16
15The Giver Of Illness "The Great Saharan-Chihuahuan Assimilation"16
16Michael Hurley "Got Over It"16
17Otto Benson "Good Night Mantra"16
18Bonny Doon "Naturally"16
19Trust Fund "late nite skate"15
20Anna St. Louis "Better Days"14
21Sam Blasucci "Turn Yourself Around"14
22Floating Action "Land of Waterfalls"14
23Alabaster DePlume "Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem"14
24Steve Gunn "Over the Dune"13
25Lael Neale "White T-Shirt"13
26Kevin Morby "Five Easy Pieces Revisited"13
27Wombo "Wolfe Ave 40"13
28Leland Whitty "Svalbard"13
29This Is The Kit "Careful Of Your Keepers"13
30Coco "Death In The Family"12
31Y La Bamba "Hues (feat. Devendra Banhart)"12
32Allegra Krieger "Lingering"12
33Jonnine "I Put a Little Thing in Your Pocket"12
34Cut Worms "Ballad of the Texas King"12
35Hand Habits "Private Life"12
36Peel Dream Magazine "You Really Mean It"12
37Timber Timbre "Ask The Community"11
38Sonny & The Sunsets "Waiting"11
39King Tuff "Love Letters To Plants"11
40PACKS "Cheese"11
41Sam Burton "Maria"11
42Rahill "Healing"11
43The Saxophones "Desert Flower"11
44Shannon Lay "Angeles"11
45The Lost Days "For Today"11
46Arthur Russell "The Boy With a Smile"11
47Cory Hanson "Twins"11
48Sunburned Hand Of The Man "Sweat Ship"11
49Devendra Banhart "Twin"10
50North Americans "The Living End"10
51Michael Nau "Shiftshaping"10
52Mapache "People Please"10
53Dougie Poole "Nothing on This Earth Can Make Me Smile"10
54Flaer "Follow"10
55Avey Tare "The Musical"10
56Gia Margaret "Hinoki Wood"10
57Mutual Benefit "Little Ways"10
58Andy Shauf "All Of My Love"10
59The Clientele "Blue Over Blue"10
60Luis Navidad "Sleep Thief"10
61Josiah Steinbrick "Please, Sing a Little Longer"10
62Golden Brown "Glass Frog"10
63Tiny Ruins "In Light Of Everything"10
64Tony Njoku "Lost Forever"10
65Mega Bog "Cactus People"10












 
 
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.)