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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#1 banjo
#1banjo
#1neo-traditional bluegrass
#6bluegrass
#7progressive bluegrass
#10jamgrass
#14instrumental bluegrass
#15mandolin
#22old-time
#23traditional folk
#26appalachian folk
#28modern old-time
#36string band
#37bluegrass fiddle
#39traditional country
#42old-time fiddle
#43bluegrass gospel
#51midwest americana
#61western americana
#62clawhammer banjo
#66traditional bluegrass
#86jam band
#94new england americana
2023 in Banjo   playlist
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1East Nash Grass "Railroadin' & Gamblin'"181
2Balsam Range "Snake Charmer"179
3Sami Braman "Barnimal"179
4Rick Faris "Don't Hold Back"173
5Bill Evans "Along Came Sonny"171
6Darren Nicholson "Arkansas Without You"171
7Blue Highway "Lonesome State Of Mind"167
8Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers "Let Time Ride"165
9Audie Blaylock And Redline "Red Rover"163
10Caroline Owens "Heartbreak Train"157
11Lost and Found "Put It Off Until Tomorrow"153
12Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass "What Crosses Your Mind"150
13Zoe & Cloyd "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"148
14The Kody Norris Show "I Call Her Sunshine"147
15Special Consensus "Pretty Kate And The Rabbit"147
16Cory Walker "Far Away Again"146
17Mighty Poplar "Grey Eagle"143
18Michael Cleveland "Thousand Dollar Holler"141
19Lonesome River Band "Near Mrs."140
20Boone & Foster "Uncle Pen"136
21Benson "Icy Cold"134
22The Gina Furtado Project "True Life Blues"131
23Volume Five "The Bible"124
24Nick Dumas "Bozeman"124
25Alison Brown "Foggy Morning Breaking"122
26Larry Sparks "New Highway"121
27Billy Swinson "Greener Grass"118
28Billy Droze "It's Ok To Be Ok"117
29Nothin' Fancy "Crash and Burn"116
30The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri "My Path was Paved by the Blood of the Lamb"111
31David Marshall "Hammer And Nail"111
32Andy Hall "Up in Bigfoot Country"110
33Missy Raines "These Ole Blues"110
34Hammertowne "Next to Nothing"109
35The Infamous Stringdusters "Down the Road"106
36April Verch "Horse and Buggy-O"106
37Chandler Beavers "Commencement"105
38The Del McCoury Band "Sally Jo"103
39Sister Sadie "Well"100
40Ben Krakauer "Brushy"97
41Erik Hill "Stay Cruisin'"96
42Danny Roberts "My Brown Eyed Darling"96
43Darin and Brooke Aldridge "Jordan"95
44Dan Tyminski "Keep Your Eye On Kentucky"88
45Daryl Mosley "A Life Well Lived"82
46Joe K. Walsh "Palmer"81
47Water Tower "My Little Girl in Tennessee - Live"81
48Arkansauce "My Home in Arkansas"81
49The Country Gentlemen "Matterhorn"80
50Leftover Salmon "Simple Twist Of Fate"77
51Robbie Fulks "Lonely Ain't Hardly Alive"74
52Lonesome Ace Stringband "Crossing the Junction / Deer River"70
53Junior Sisk "Long Hard Road (The Share Cropper's Dream)"69
54High Fidelity "The Mighty Name of Jesus"68
55Danny Burns "Come to Jesus"68
56Caitlin Canty "Odds of Getting Even"67
57Don Rigsby "Cold Ashes"66
58Mile Twelve "Take Me as I Am"64
59Chris Jones & The Night Drivers "The Price of Falling"64
60Ethan Setiawan "Golden"63
61Molly Tuttle "San Joaquin"63
62Connor Jay Liess "The Wreck of the Old 97"62
63Gary Nichols "Fire in the Dark"62
64Lindley Creek "Fare Thee Well"62
65Tray Wellington "Moon in Motion 1"62
66Authentic Unlimited "Thank You Lord for Grace"61
67Chosen Road "Awake My Soul"61
68Dale Ann Bradley "Love Train"59
69Dalton Harper "Highway of Love"59
70Tim Raybon Band "Can't Get Away from This Broken Heart"57
71Steep Canyon Rangers "Deep End"55
72firekid "Chemical Plant Zone"54
73Tim Stafford "Old Forge"53
74Trey Holiday "Hometown Roots"52
75Fireside Collective "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"51
76Tommy Emmanuel "White Freight Liner Blues (feat. Molly Tuttle)"51
77I'm With Her "Wake Me When It's Over"48
78The Chuck Wagon Gang "I Will Not Cry Today"47
79Last Hour Bluegrass "He Guides My Way"46
80Wicker Suite "Ghost Train"45
81Don Reno "Remington Ride"45
82Dom Flemons "Guess I'm Doing Fine"44
83Carley Arrowood "Tsali's Run"43
84Daniel Grindstaff "Three Arrows"43
85Marija Droze "Broken Glass"43
86Chris Davis "John The Baptist"42
87The Travelin' McCourys "The Whole of the Moon"42
88Chicken Wire Empire "Friend of the Devil"42
89The Reno Family "Sundown and Sorrow"40
90The Barefoot Movement "Penny Lane"40
91Meredith Moon "I Loved That Town"40
92Della Mae "Can't Let Go"40
93Tim O'Brien "Little Lamb Little Lamb"39
94Bark Point. "Strawberries"39
95Joe Hott "I've Got to Cross That Lonely River"39
96Greensky Bluegrass "Congratulations and Condolences"39
97Addie Levy "Blue Mountain"38
98The Grascals "I Go"38
99Pickin' On Series "Yellow Ledbetter"37
100Kitchen Dwellers "Whitewater - Live"37



















 
 
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.)