I collected over 15 lists of Best Music (albums) of 2023 from the Internet, newspapers and magazines and compiled them into one meta-list. Here are the results: every recording on four or more of the original source lists, organized by rank (that is, with the albums on the most lists at the top).
Note 1: I have provided genre descriptions of the artist from Wikipedia as a guide.
Note 2: These are not my personal opinions. I have not listened to all this music.
On 15 Lists
Olivia Rodrigo – Guts (pop/rock)
On 13 Lists
Boygenius – The Record (indie rock/indie folk)
On 12 Lists
Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (art pop/alternative pop)
On 11 Lists
Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Americana)
On 10 Lists
Amaarae – Fountain Baby (R&B/Afrobeats/pop)
On 9 Lists
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown – Scaring the Hoes (hip hop/alternative hip hop)
SZA – SOS (R&B/hip hop/pop)
Wednesday – Rat Saw God (indie rock/shoegaze/alt-country)
On 8 Lists
100 Gecs – 10,000 Gecs (pop punk/electronic rock/nu metal)
jaimie branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (World War) (jazz/punk jazz)
Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Americana/folk/orchestral pop)
Sufjan Stevens – Javelin (indie folk)
Noname – Sundial (hip hop/jazz rap/neo soul)
Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (disco/funk/R&B)
On 7 Lists
Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (folk)
Kelela – Raven (R&B/ambient pop/breakbeat)
Victoria Monét – Jaguar II (R&B)
Troye Sivan – Something to Give Each Other (electropop/house/R&B)
Kali Uchis – Red Moon in Venus (R&B/neo soul/psychedelic soul)
Water From Your Eyes – Everyone’s Crushed (indie pop)
On 6 Lists
Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (soul)
Zach Bryan – Zach Bryan (country/country rock)
Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (electropop/synth-pop)
L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (experimental pop)
Janelle Monáe – The Age of Pleasure (Afrobeat/reggae/soul)
Billy Woods and Kenny Segal – Maps (hip hop)
On 5 Lists
Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen a Way (experimental rock/noise rock)
Everything But the Girl – Fuse (pop/downtempo/R&B)
Ice Spice – Like..? (hip hop/drill)
Megan Moroney – Lucky (country)
On 4 Lists
Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (experimental hip hop)
Blondshell – Blondshell (alternative rock/indie rock/grunge)
Paramore – This Is Why (post-punk/new wave/alternative rock)
Peso Pluma – Génesis (Regional Mexican/corridos tumbados/urban sierreño)
Raye – My 21st Century Blues (house/blues/dancehall)
Lil Yachty – Let’s Start Here (psychedelic rock/psychedelic soul/funk)
NewJeans – Get Up (dance/R&B/K-pop)
Karol G – Mañana Será Bonito (reggaetón/Latin pop)
Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (indie rock)
Jamila Woods – Water Made Us (R&B/neo soul)
Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (indie rock/post punk/alternative dance)
PJ Harvey – I Inside The Old Year Dying (post-punk/neofolk/folk rock)
Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings (contemporary folk/singer-songwriter)
Joy Oladokun – Proof of Life (folk/R&B/pop)
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Americana/folk)
Sexyy Red – Hood Hottest Princess (hip hop)
Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (low-fi/soul/alternative hip hop)
Lankum – False Lankum (folk)
Sampha – Lahai (alternative R&B/soul/electronic)
On 3 Lists
Gracie Abrams – Good Riddance (pop/R&B/indie rock)
Asake – Work of Art (Afrobeats/Fuji fusion/amapiano)
André 3000 – New Blue Sun (ambient/new-age/spiritual jazz)
Jungle – Volcano (neo soul/funk/nu-disco)
The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (blues rock)
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive (shoegaze)
Various Artists – Barbie the Album (pop/hip hop)
Hozier – Unreal Unearth (blues/rock/soul)
Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (noise rock)
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (pop)
Sofia Kourtesis – Madres (house)
Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Americana/country pop/indie folk)
Nourished By Time – Erotic Probiotic 2 (freestyle/R&B/bedroom pop)
Brent Faiyaz – Larger Than Life (R&B)
Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (R&B)
Jordan Ward – Forward (R&B)
Kylie Minogue – Tension (dance-pop/disco/EDM)
Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows (R&B/jazz/garage rock)
Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming for You (indie rock/lo-fi/post-punk)
The Lemon Twigs – Everything Harmony (indie rock/power pop/glam rock)
Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (jazz/R&B)
Yaeji – With a Hammer (electronic/house)