So usually I'd be doing this in three posts: the first just counting down from 100-51, the second from 50-21 with commentary along the way, and the third counting down my top 20. But I'm calling 2023 the aberration in my tradition, due to the fact that I was moving house in December 2023 and just didn't have time to put together proper blog posts. The books were easy as I write them up as I go, but still I use this blog as my go-to reference for where particular songs and albums fell, so it will screw future me up if I don't have this. So here you go, my entire top 100 songs of 2023 in countdown order:
100) Saturnine - GoGo Penguin (Contemporary Jazz)
99) C'est drôle la vie - Christophe Maé feat. Angelique
Kidjo (French Pop)
98) Patience - Wilder Woods (Indie Folk)
97) Ain't That the Way - The Rough & Tumble (Folk Pop)
96) L'amour - Christophe Maé feat. Amadou & Mariam
(French Pop)
95) I GOT IT - Debby Friday feat. Uñas (Electropunk)
94) Ringing in my Ears - Dan Sultan (Australio Indie Folk
Pop)
93) Tempus Fugitive - Nick Harper (Anti-Folk)
92) One in a Million - Funke and the Two Tone Baby (DIY Funk
Rock)
91) Tenochtitlán - Mon Laferte (Chilean Folk Pop)
90) Purple Phase - Arlo Parks (RnB)
89) Future Promise - Niki & the Dove and the Greys
(Neosoul)
88) Andrá - Sigur Rós (Ambient Pop)
87) Wearing Through the Pine - Villages (Indie Folk Pop)
86) “Burial Bleak” - King Creosote (Scottish Folk Pop)
85) Hope - Green Lads (Celtic Folk)
84) Anchorite - KOAN Sound (Neurohop)
83) Strange Weather - Luke Sital-Singh (Indie
Singer-Songwriter)
82) Cut It - VLURE (Electropunk)
81) Maybe Everyone Knows - Tide Lines (puirt-à-beul)
80) Accordion Song - Eliza Carthy & the Restitution
(Folk)
79) D.A.R.E. - ICECOLDBISHOP (Hip-Hop)
78) I Will Follow - Billy Sullivan (Mod Revival)
77) Common Sense Civilian - The Murlocs (Psychedelic Garage
Rock)
76) Breaking the Circle - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Synthpop)
75) My Red Little Fox - Sufjan Stevens (Art Folk)
74) Tomorrow - Black Pumas (Neosoul)
73) See the World by Night - Fruit Bats (Indie Pop)
72) Wake In Might - Party Dozen (Psychojazz)
71) Anything But - Hozier (Irish Folk Pop)
70) What On Earth Is It (you Take Me For) - Madness (Ska)
69) First & First - Charlie Hall (Indie Rock)
68) Fever - RMR (Alt-RnB)
67) flowers - joan (Boyband Pop)
66) Winter's Eve - Kishi Bashi (Indie Folk Pop)
65) Soundboy Killa - Dub Pistols & Natty Campbell (dub)
64) Inner Space - Temples (Psychedelic Pop)
63) Follow the Leader - Devon Gilfillian (RnB)
62) Skel - Sigur Rós (Ambient Pop)
61) Everything You Need - Skerryvore (Celtic Folk)
60) Dear Bill - Operation Mincemeat (Musical Theatre)
59) FORMULA - Dumb Buoys Fishing Club, Merlyn Wood & joe
unknown (Hip-Hop)
58) Little Blue - Jacob Collier feat. Brandi Carlile (Indie
Folk)
57) Ave Verum (Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor) - Libera
(Contemporary Choral)
56) Klettur - Sigur Rós (Ambient Pop)
55) SOPHIA <144> - Meg Myers feat. Nicole Perretti
(Indie Rock)
54) Bear the Weight - Exploring Birdsong (Prog Rock)
53) We May Not Stay - GoGo Penguin (Contemporary Jazz)
52) À tout jamais - Mylène Farmer (French Synthpop)
51) Blue Over Blue - The Clientele (Indie Folk)
50) No Reason - Sunny War (Black Americana)
49) Amokura - Shapeshifter (Cook Islands Drum 'n' Bass)
48) Through the Eyes of a Woman - Lucky Lo (Art Pop)
47) Little Black Flowers - Woods (Psychedelic Folk)
46) Lonesome Fears - Emilíana Torrini & the Colorist
Orchestra (Chamber Pop)
45) Stun Like a Deadly Flower - Gabi Garbutt (Indie
Singer-Songwriter)
44) One of Your Girls - Troye Sivan (Pop)
43) Gatjumak - Andrew Gurruwiri Band (Australio Indigenous
Rock)
42) You Left Me In Bloom - Emilíana Torrini & the
Colorist Orchestra (Chamber Pop)
41) Anpuru Maau Kutjpa - Electric Fields (Australio
Indigenous Folk Pop)
40) Danny's Waltz - Snows of Yesteryear (Folk Pop)
39) feeling like dancing - joan (Boyband Pop)
38) On the Village Green - Nick Harper (Anti-Folk)
37) Gemini Sun - Black Pumas (Neosoul)
36) Oral - Björk & Rosalía (Art Pop)
35) Bad by Design - Siv Jakobsen (Dreamfolk)
34) Luxury of Self Destruction - TTRRUUCES (Wonky Pop)
33) Puirt à beul (Ho gun d' mharbh mi, Dhannsamaid le
Ailean, Air an fhèill, Ged thigeadh fear le buaile chruidh) - Joy Dunlop
(puirt-à-beul)
32) Vancouver Island - Skerryvore (Celtic Folk)
31) Weightless - Arlo Parks (RnB)
30) Love As Hard As You Can - Liela Moss feat. Dhani
Harrison (Garage Rock)
29) Meeting the Master - Greta van Fleet (Glam Rock)
28) Can't Stop the Music - Funke and the Two Tone Baby (DIY
Funk Rock)
27) Goldenrod - Jenny Owen Youngs (Indie Folk)
26) Amelia - Samia (Metropopolis)
25) BUGGIN - WHO SHOT SCOTT (New Zealand-Iraqi Hip-Hop)
24) Dorisk Reinlender - Gangar (Neofolk)
23) Can't - Anohni and the Johnsons (Art Pop)
22) Lost in the Rush - Telenova (Indie Pop)
21) Valley - Amy Stroup (Countrygaze)
20) Stick Figure Attack - IRONTOM (Art Rock)
19) Dan No Ura, Pt. 1 - PoiL & Junko Ueda (Superhero Big
Beat Surf)
18) Errasuriz - Kiltro (Chilean Folk Pop)
17) Solid Rock - Goanna, Moss & Tamara Keith feat.
William Barton (Australio DnB Cover)
16) Brittany - Glüme feat. Sean Ono Lennon (Experimental
Synthpop)
15) Goodbye Evergreen - Sufjan Stevens (Art Folk)
14) The Nightmare - OK Goodnight (Prog Metal)
13) You're Just a Boy (And I'm Kinda a Man) - Maisie Peters
(Pop)
12) Fuh Spite - KES (Soca)
11) Chupacabra Cadabra - NanowaR of Steel (Satirical
Mariachi Metal)
10) The Humours of Ardnamurchan - Peatbog Faeries feat.
Heather MacLeod & Gina Rae (Celtic Folk)
9) Division - Barkaa (Australio Indigenous Protest Hip-Hop)
8) The King - Anjimile (Experimental Folk)
7) Secrets of the Mind - Parrotfish (Psychedelic Rock)
6) I Just Wanna Dance - The Niro (Europop with kora for some
reason)
5) Au Top - ascendant vierge (Belgian Hardcore Pop)
4) Vamonos - Dutty Moonshine Big Band (Jazz Hop)
3) Face in the Crowd - Freya Ridings (Indie
Singer-Songwriter)
2) Tararua - HINA (Maori Folk Pop)
1) Terror - Tianna Esperanza (Alt-RnB)