The 2023 Goose Jam of the Year Bracket

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN…it’s bracket season! Welcome to the fourth annual Goose Jam of the Year Bracket, presented by Always Almost There and powered by nugs.net! We’ve been preparing for months and can’t wait to dive into another bracket full of fun banter, blaming of Vickers, and celebrating the best Goose jams of 2023!

We’d like to begin by thanking everyone for getting involved in this year’s seeding process - the participation has never been bigger and we can’t wait to keep doing this every year! Keep reading through this post to find out how YOU can get involved in voting and more!

Without further ado…your 2023 bracket! Download a printable copy here and fill it out at home! See the bottom of this post for a full overall ranked list of jams.

Click here to download a nugs playlist of the bracket IN ORDER OF MATCHUP.

The five of us break down every first-round matchup and more on a new episode of AAT, available now wherever you get your podcasts!

When Does the Party Start?

Beginning Friday, January 12th at 12pm ET, and continuing every day until the champion is crowned, there will be a poll posted for you to cast your vote. In an effort to be more inclusive this year, we are moving away from Twitter voting and will be sharing links to an external site where anyone can participate and discuss each matchup! Every poll will be open for 24 hours and we will be doing TWO polls per day for the first round of matchups, and then one poll per day from the round of 32 onward.

Each day’s matchups will be broadcast live by our friends at WTED Radio - tune in and join the discussion at noon ET throughout the entire bracket!

In addition to the daily voting, we are also very stoked to be bringing back the JOTY Bracket Challenge! Similar to a March Madness pool, everyone will have an opportunity to fill out a complete bracket before the matchups begin. You will earn points for each winner you accurately predict - matchups in the first round are worth one point each, second round are worth two, Sweet 16 are worth four, Elite Eight are worth five, Final Four are worth six, semi finals are worth eight, and guessing the champion will earn ten points. Along with priceless bragging rights, the first-prize winner will receive their very own golden Strange Man figurine, with other prizes to be announced soon! The deadline to submit your Bracket Challenge picks is 11:30am ET on Friday, January 12! Sign up and enter yours here!

“But AAT,” you may be asking, “my favourite jam isn’t on the list!”
Thanks to the wide-ranging and diverse pool of submissions from all corners of the Goose community, we were able to capture a more accurate consensus of the 64 most popular, most listened to, most respected, and most loved jams. So, if one of yours didn’t make the cut, it’s simply due to the fact that Goose gave us such a long list of amazing candidates! We were truly spoiled in 2023. Check out our playlist of ranks 65-128 here. Feel free to #BlameVickers for any issues you have!

Bracket Statistics

85 people submitted seeding playlists

369 unique songs were picked

4/22 Echo of a Rose is the longest jam in the bracket at 44:20

9/26 Yeti is the shortest jam in the bracket at 14:50

3 covers made the top 64 - 12/8 Mirrors, 3/10 In Your Eyes, and 9/20 Mississippi Half-Step

6 versions of All I Need made the bracket, the most of any unique song

15 jams from April made the bracket, the most of any month

3 jams from 3/8, 4/13, 9/26, and 10/6 made the bracket, the most from any one show

2023 Jam of the Year Overall Seeds 1-64

1. Hungersite (2023-04-14)

2. Echo of a Rose (2023-04-22)

3. Thatch (2023-09-22)

4. All I Need (2023-03-26)

5. Drive (2023-03-08)

6. Madhuvan (2023-04-01)

7. Echo of a Rose (2023-03-24)

8. Everything Must Go (2023-10-06)

9. Wysteria Lane (2023-03-30)

10. Borne (2023-06-22)

11. Wysteria Lane (2023-04-13)

12. The Empress of Organos (2023-04-25)

13. Hot Tea (2023-07-06)

14. Borne (2023-04-25)

15. Arrow (2023-06-22)

16. Red Bird (2023-06-23)

17. Mirrors (2023-12-08)

18. Elizabeth (2023-10-01)

19. Madhuvan (2023-11-20)

20. Factory Fiction (2023-10-06)

21. Tumble (2023-05-02)

22. All I Need (2023-03-08)

23. Pancakes (2023-04-15)

24. Earthling or Alien? (2023-03-08)

25. Rosewood Heart (2023-09-15)

26. Rockdale (2023-03-30)

27. Thatch (2023-07-07)

28. Borne (2023-04-13)

29. Animal (2023-11-13)

30. Wysteria Lane (2023-09-16)

31. All I Need (2023-11-03)

32. Red Bird (2023-04-27)

33. Dripfield (2023-09-26)

34. The Empress of Organos (2023-07-07)

35. Indian River (2023-04-13)

36. All I Need (2023-04-21)

37. Madhuvan (2023-06-25)

38. Tumble (2023-06-02)

39. All I Need (2023-06-23)

40. Arrow (2023-03-31)

41. Madhuvan (2023-04-28)

42. Thatch (2023-10-06)

43. Wysteria Lane (2023-04-21)

44. Elizabeth (2023-09-26)

45. Yeti (2023-09-26)

46. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (2023-09-20)

47. The Empress of Organos (2023-07-01)

48. Butter Rum (2023-03-12)

49. Red Bird (2023-09-28)

50. Elizabeth (2023-04-28)

51. Time to Flee (2023-09-29)

52. Borne (2023-03-25)

53. Rosewood Heart (2023-04-18)

54. Arrow (2023-06-30)

55. Red Bird (2023-04-01)

56. Thatch (2023-09-14)

57. Red Bird (2023-03-23)

58. Hungersite (2023-11-20)

59. Pancakes (2023-11-15)

60. All I Need (2023-05-02)

61. Creatures (2023-07-03)

62. Rosewood Heart (2023-03-31)

63. Wysteria Lane (2023-10-07)

64. In Your Eyes (2023-03-10)

Goose Jam of the Year Hall of Fame

2020: 9/16 Madhuvan
2021: 6/15 A Western Sun
2022: 6/15 Madhuvan