2023 was a great year for music, and I had trouble narrowing down a list of my top 25 favorite songs. In fact, I tried to pare down my Best of 2023 playlist by limiting each artist to a maximum of 2 songs each, but the playlist still has 100 songs. You can listen to them all on Tidal or Spotify below! I’ve also included links to my Song of the Week posts for 2023 and all of my favorite songs by year from 1973 to the present.
Favorite Songs of 2023
Arranged alphabetically by song title
“All of the Time in the World to Kill” by The Milk Carton Kids
“Angels Point” by La Lom
“bad idea right?” by Olivia Rodrigo
“Brilha” by Baque Luar
“Bug Like an Angel” by Mitski
“Damn the Word” by The Hackles
“Eliza I See” by Darlingside
“Emily I’m Sorry” by boygenius
“Francesca” by Hozier
“HARLEY QUINN” by Fuerza Regida, Marshmello
“Hypothetical Girl” by Little Fuss
“Leaving the Light” by Genesis Owusu
“Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica)” by Kyle Gordon
“Quarry” by Wednesday
“Roll the Credits” by Danielle Ponder
“She’s On My Mind” by Romy
“SO HARD TO TELL” by DEBBY FRIDAY
“Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against the Wall” by Nia Archives
“Thousand Lifetimes (feat. Corey Glover)” by Fire From the Gods
“Tiny Garden” by Jamila Woods
“Too Many Things” by The Linda Lindas
“We’re All Gonna Die” by Joy Oladokun and Noah Kahan
“We Wreck Stadiums (feat. Rahiem, Kidd Creole, DMC)” by Chuck D
“What You Did” by Hannah Jadagu
“World Worth Keeping” by Jamie Wyatt
Songs of the Week for 2023
January
- “Happiness” by THICK
- “Abathembu” by uKhoiKhoi
- “Blood Rushes” by CIVIC
- “Doomscrollers” by Quasi
- “Fold” by Bonobo & Jacques Greene
February
- “Go Dig My Grave” by Lankum
- “Tokyo Dub Story” by Gezan & Million Wish Collective
- “MA EMILY (featuring Rapsody)” by C.S. Armstrong
- “All of the Time in the World to Kill” by The Milk Carton Kids
March
- “False Spring” by Shelli Le Fay
- “Barley” by Water From Your Eyes
- “exodus the north star” by Yaya Bey
- “Grey Eagle” by Mighty Poplar
April
- “My My Orca Card” by Who Is She?
- “Pop Song Baby” by MEDIOCRE
- “Too Many Things” by The Linda Lindas
- “Consumerism” by Acid Tongue
May
- “Freak Me Now” by Jessie Ware
- “Journeyman” by The Baseball Project
- “Roll the Credits” by Danielle Ponder Hannah Jadagu
- “What You Did” by Hannah Jadagu
- “Star” by CERES
June
- “Kristine From the 7th Grade” by Ben Folds
- “Lima” by Rocket Empire
- “Eliza, I See” by Darlingside
- “Vine” by Glasser
July
- “Cellar” by Sea Lemon
- “hot blue summer” by dayaway
- “Tumbling Dice” by Little Dragon
- “ETA” by NewJeans
- “Jacaranda” by Sivan Levy
August
- “Hypothetical Girl” by Little Fuss
- “Boston” by The Elovaters
- “Planet of the Bass” by DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronica
- “You Shatter” by Sweeping Promises
September
- “Frontier’s Edge” by The Budos Band
- “So Alive” by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Moullinex
- “Erasure” by Corinne Bailey Rae
- “Modus Operandi [feat. Frankie Cosmos]” by Juan Wauters
October
- “EL UNDERGROUND (feat. mediopicky)” by Diego Raposo
- “The Turning Ground” by Tara Clerkin Trio
- “Second Nature” by Drew Martin
- “too young to die (feat. First Aid Kit)” by M. Ward
- “For Me It’s You” by Jobi Riccio
November
- “Every Day is Halloween” by Kate Pierson
- “El Que” by Angélica Garcia
- “Impressively Average” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby
- “An Open Letter to My Cousins in Israel” by Gabriel Teodros
December
- “The Parting Glass” by boygenius and Ye Vagabonds
- “Waves of Home” by Derina Harvey Band
- “Love We Battle” by Oun Jweinate
Favorite Songs by Year, 1973-2022
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