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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#3 traditional folk
#3traditional folk
#5american folk revival
#7drone folk
#7modern old-time
#10appalachian folk
#13old-time
#15american primitive
#31clawhammer banjo
#32string band
#37new orleans americana
#46old-time fiddle
2023 in Traditional Folk   playlist
#trackscore
1Stone & Sue "Alto Waltz"161
2The Country Gentlemen "Matterhorn"115
3Nora Brown "Lady of the Lake"71
4Trey Holiday "Hometown Roots"66
5Sami Braman "Duck House"62
6Meredith Moon "Needlecase/ Blue Goose"44
7Lonesome Ace Stringband "Lonesome Ace #1"43
8Termosa Zartholomew "Hell In The Years"42
9The Reno Family "Sundown and Sorrow"36
10Michael Hurley "Got Over It"34
11Sam Shackleton "The Lone Prairie"32
12Beau Cheval "Mort Dans Le Fossé"30
13Anthony Simpkins "Beneath the Willows (GemsOnVHS Field Recording)"29
14Benny Bleu "Five Miles from Town"24
15Natalie Padilla "Farewell Princeton"23
16Tim Stafford "Old Forge"21
17Mighty Poplar "Blackjack Davy"20
18Two Runner "Shakin’ Down the Acorns"18
19Nick Shoulders "Won't Fence Us In"18
20Jason Dea West "Out on the Range"17
21Nick Simon "Park View"17
22Zoe & Cloyd "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"17
23East Nash Grass "Railroadin' & Gamblin'"16
24The Lostines "Last Night"16
25Don Reno "I Couldn't Win"16
26Willi Carlisle "All of the Redheaded Stranger"15
27Dean Johnson "Faraway Skies"15
28Matt Heckler "I Tried - GemsOnVHS field recording"15
29Darren Nicholson "Arkansas Without You"13
30Alison Brown "Foggy Morning Breaking"13
31Bill Evans "Along Came Sonny"13
32Cory Walker "Far Away Again"13
33Caroline Owens "Heartbreak Train"12
34Audie Blaylock And Redline "Red Rover"12
35Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass "What Crosses Your Mind"12
36Michael Cleveland "The Blues Are Close At Hand"12
37The Gina Furtado Project "True Life Blues"12
38Jackson and the Janks "Give an Account"12
39The Kody Norris Show "I Call Her Sunshine"11
40The Del McCoury Band "Sally Jo"11
41Special Consensus "Pretty Kate And The Rabbit"11
42Erik Hill "Stay Cruisin'"10
43Nick Hans "Junkyard"10
44Blaze Foley "My Reasons Why - Live"10
45Bella White "Flowers On My Bedside"10
46Holy Locust "Live Wire"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.)