This year’s best country albums spring from hard-country bands to traditional true believers and from alternative country renegades to pop-country superstars.
The best global music comes from places around the globe and then goes to others. If you find something new, those connections therein have stretched farther.
This has proved a fantastic year for heavy music and metal, with masters impressing and newer artists shining. These are the best metal albums of 2023.
The 50 best albums of 2023 offer sublime music as major artists return with albums and brilliant new sounds bubble up from the underground and worldwide.
