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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lists
#2 american primitive
#2american primitive
#3drone folk
#4experimental psych
#8experimental guitar
#8free folk
#11ambient country
#46new weird america
#65pastoral
#70rain
#78subliminal product
2023 in American Primitive   playlist
#trackscore
1Golden Brown "Weird Choices"384
2Zenitude "Sleepless Night"314
3North Americans "Western Town, With Road to Mountain"301
4Danny Paul Grody "California Angelica"242
5Jeffrey Silverstein "No Rain"219
6Hayden Pedigo "The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored"216
7Steve Gunn "Libration"191
8SUSS "Ranger"141
9William Tyler & The Impossible Truth "Gone Clear - Live"139
10Nathan Salsburg "IX"130
11Chuck Johnson "Driving to Margie's"121
12Bill Orcutt "What Do You Do With Memory"121
13Daniel Bachman "Someone Straying, Long Delaying"120
14Bobby Lee "Rainbow Reprise"120
15Nora Brown "Lady of the Lake"119
16Nico Georis "Soft Yellow Gazers"115
17Jim Ghedi "Gylfinir"106
18Prairiewolf "Slow Thrasher"102
19Josiah Steinbrick "Green Glass"93
20M. Sage "Tilth Dusk Drains"89
21Elkhorn "North"87
22D.C Cross "The Regicide Of Daniel Ek Made No Sound"84
23Michael Hurley "Got Over It"76
24Luke Schneider "Pax Tennesseanna"75
25The Royal Arctic Institute "The Elated World"74
26Marisa Anderson "For All We Know"71
27Black Duck "Of the Lit Backyards"68
28Gunn - Truscinski - Nace "Tape"68
29Faten Kanaan "Falconers"60
30Magic Tuber Stringband "Orb-Weaver"60
31Rose City Band "Saturday's Gone"58
32Jeff Parker "Alberta"56
33Spencer Cullum "Cold Damp Valley"56
34Mark McGuire "Shallow Where It Should Be Deep"56
35John Fahey "Evening, Not Night (Pt. 2)"54
36Hana Stretton "Captain was a Cow"51
37Yasmin Williams "Doc's Guitar"50
38BCMC "Foreign Smokes"49
39Blue Lake "Sun Arcs"48
40Phil Cook "Brothers - Autopiano"47
41Alabaster DePlume "Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins"47
42Jonny Nash "Face Of Another"47
43Ulaan Passerine "A Calvary of Clouds"47
44Andrew Wasylyk "Lost, Aglow - Alternate Mix"47
45Edsel Axle "Variable Happiness"47
46Felbm "cycli infini - excerpt"47
47Peel Dream Magazine "You Really Mean It"46
48Laraaji "Koto (Glimpse)"46
49Imaginary Softwoods "Bronze Lamp"45
50Gia Margaret "Hinoki Wood"45
51John Andrews & The Yawns "Starving Artist"44
52Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru "Aurora"43
53Anna St. Louis "Better Days"42
54K. Leimer "Strewn"41
55Haruhisa Tanaka "Sprout"41
56Dylan Henner "With Her First Ever Steps She Walked To Me and She Was So Happy"41
57Glyders "Maria's Hunt"41
58Meg Baird "Ashes, Ashes"40
59Lone Mesa "Bedside Ashtray"40
60Early Fern "Softly Brushed By Wind"40
61Cian Nugent "High Up Airplane"40
62Greg Foat "Dolphin"40
63Lia Kohl "like time (pretending it had a human body)"40
64Natural Information Society "Moontide Chorus"39
65Sam Burton "I Don't Blame You"39
66Scree "Wind And Sand"38
67Nashville Ambient Ensemble "Waveguide"38
68Brendan Eder Ensemble "Interlude"37
69Rachika Nayar "hawthorn"37
70Shake the Disease "Wayfaring Stranger"37
71Tomasz Bednarczyk "Sloth River"36
72Dream Sitch "Panicking Gong"36
73Mapache "People Please"36
74Dick Stusso "A Fairly Normal Guy"36
75Dougie Poole "Nickels and Dimes"36
76Sunburned Hand Of The Man "Sweat Ship"35
77amby downs "Looming change / Building fabric"35
78Bonny Doon "Naturally"35
79The Sad Bandits "The Golden Age Rises"35
80Dustin Tebbutt "(in.)Fading Light"35
81numün "Sideway"34
82Shana Cleveland "Ten Hour Drive Through West Coast Disaster"34
83James Elkington "A Message For The Janesville Kings"34
84Masahiro Takahashi "Back To The West"34
85Woods "White Winter Melody"34
86Xylouris White "Latin White"34
87Modern Baroqui Ensemble "Fair Potions"33
88Taylor Deupree "Something That Looks Like Stars"33
89Mary Elizabeth Remington "Dresser Hill"33
90Cactus Lee "Alpine Skier"33
91Setting "A Sun Harp"32
92Blake Mills "Highway Bright"32
93Ann Annie "Three Chords"32
94Flaer "Follow"31
95Cory Hanson "Ghost Ship"31
96Mute Duo "Sunken Light"31
97Sam Blasucci "Turn Yourself Around"31
98Kenneth James Gibson "The Groundskeeper - Chuck Johnson Remix"30
99Misha Panfilov "Caipirinha"30
100Mary Lattimore "And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me"30



















 
 
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.)