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.
vantages  
 
lists
#12 contemporary folk
#12contemporary folk
#24celtic
#35irish pub song
#52danish folk
#55swedish fiddle
#56nyckelharpa
#76norwegian folk
#85string band
#85traditional british folk
#92clawhammer banjo
2023 in Contemporary Folk   playlist
#trackscore
1Carrie Newcomer "A Tissue Or Two"96
2Diana Jones "All God's Children - 2023 Remaster"83
3Joe Crookston "Looking for Yes"77
4David Francey "I Called It Love"70
5Angie McLaughlin "Nobody's Baby"70
6Meg Hutchinson "I Carry Your Heart"66
7Gunning & Cormier "Sing Now"64
8Lynn Miles "Highway 105"57
9Antje Duvekot "Open Water"56
10Eliza Gilkyson "Safety Zone"55
11Paula Galsworthy "Darcy Faro"54
12Geraldine Obadiah "Romance"51
13tibard "cocoko"48
14Deangelo Albertie "New House"45
15Jodie Fox "Irish Goodbye"38
16Marianela Brune "You Me And The Island"36
17The Nields "Magnificat"33
18Ellis Paul "Who You Are"32
19Hillary Horner "Liars"32
20Tom Paxton "In America"28
21David Wilcox "My Good Friends"26
22Allan Dupre "A Single Candle"24
23Krandell Worley "Maybe Mad"23
24Abby Posner "Slowly"21
25Ashley Ladwig "The Wreck Of The Henry Clay"21
26Janise Charles "There Are Happy Blues"21
27Fame Jane "Now And Then I Wonder"20
28Bruce Cockburn "To Keep the World We Know"20
29Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters "Miracles"18
30Helen Daugherty "You re The Only One"16
31Mark Erelli "Sense of Wonder"16
32Shannon McNally "Magnolia"16
33Vance Gilbert "Simple Things"16
34Rosanne Cash "I Am a Pilgrim"16
35Uncle Mounty "Drug song (a love song)"15
36Mary Gauthier "More Than A Whisper"14
37Rachel Cumberland "Old Boxer Pray"14
38Jimmy Rankin "Banks of Sicily"13
39Tim Grimm "The Little In-Between"13
40Lori McKenna "Happy Children"13
41Chris Smither "If I Had a Dollar"12
42Angelica Maria "Hometown Glory"12
43Iris DeMent "How Long"12
44Rodney Crowell "Loving You Is The Only Way To Fly"12
45Abigail Lapell "Songbird"11
46Megson "Anastasia & William"11
47Rosilind Stevenson "Cant remember"11
48Caitlin Canty "Quiet Flame"11
49Aron Brazee "Slow Dancing At Evangelines"11
50Carsie Blanton "Sister Says (Acoustic)"11
51Caroline Cotter "Don't Wait"11
52Marshall Harte "Gravitation"11
53Late Start Productions "Anything For Love"11
54Slaid Cleaves "Second Hand"10
55Tim O'Brien "Little Lamb Little Lamb"10
56Eilen Jewell "You Were a Friend of Mine"10
57Henry Purcell "How Blest Are Shepherds (Arr. for Voice and Chamber Ensemble by Rebecca Scout Nelson)"10
58Dominic Longman "The Eye Of Death"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.)