WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE for the YEAR 2020
Compiled on behalf of the Worldmusic Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) by Johannes Theurer/Milan Tesar Copyright by Gift Music GmbH The top 150 of 708 nominated records
1 LINA_ RAÜL REFREE Lina_ Raül Refree Glitterbeat Portugal/Spain 2 OLD WOW Sam Lee Cooking Vinyl UK 3 SINGER OF TALES Damir Imamovic Wrasse Bosnia & Herzegovina 4 TAMOTAIT Tamikrest Glitterbeat Mali 5 ENLIGHTEN THE NIGHT Mahsa Vahdat Kirkelig Kulturverksted Iran 6 ALEWA Santrofi Outhere Ghana 7 FOR HIM AND HER Amira Medunjanin Croatia Records Bosnia & Herzegovina 8 AMOREAMARO Maria Mazzotta Zero 99 Italy 9 MIELO Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundstrom Akerö Records Finland 10 SAHARI Aziza Brahim Glitterbeat Western Sahara/Spain 11 STROVILOS Trio Tekke Riverboat Cyprus 12 SONGS FROM LANDS OF SILENCE Nelia Safaie Kirkelig Kulturverksted Iran 13 THE KING OF SUDANESE JAZZ Sharhabil Ahmed Habibi Funk Sudan 14 ABAN The Garifuna Collective Stonetree Belize 15 ACOUSTIC Oumou Sangare No Format! Mali 16 GLOBAL CONTROL / INVISIBLE INVASION Ammar 808 Glitterbeat India / Belgium 17 IBRA Eneida Marta Algeventos Guinea-Bissau 18 THE PACE SETTERS Edikanfo Glitterbeat Ghana 19 LINDE Afel Bocoum World Circuit Mali 20 ZITHERS Andrew Cronshaw Cloud Valley Music England 21 AS CATEDRAIS SILENCIADAS/THE SILENCED CATHEDRALS Xabier Diaz & Adufeiras de Salitre Musicas de Salitre Spain (Galicia) 22 PIPERS Clarinet Factory Supraphon Czech Rep. 23 MAKE YOUR MOVE Trad.Attack! Made in Baltics Estonia 24 NAVARASA - NINE EMOTIONS Yorkston/Thorne/Khan Domino UK/India 25 YEMENIA Rasm Almashan Soliton Yemen/Poland 26 PAKISTAN IS FOR THE PEACEFUL Ustad Saami Glitterbeat Pakistan 27 AYNAABE - LA MUSIQUE D'ISSA SOW Issa Sow with Abdou Camara & Wouter Vandenabeele Homerecords Senegal/Belgium 28 CARTOGRAFADO Carla Pires Ocarina Portugal 29 TO KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING Mulatu Astatke & The Black Jesus Experience Agogo Ethiopia/Australia 30 ORMENION Evritiki Zygia Teranga Beat Greece 31 BRASSES FOR THE MASSES Dzambo Agusevi Orchestra Asphalt Tango Macedonia 32 HAITIANOLA Lakou Mizik Cumbancha Haiti/USA 33 VIDA-CODIGO Tigana Santana Ajabu! Brazil 34 AMAZONES POWER Les Amazones d'Afrique Real World various Africa 35 AL HADAOUI Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah Habibi Funk Morocco 36 DE CONAKRY A BARCELONA Nakany Kante Kasba Music Spain/Guinea 37 NANI Emmi Kujanpää Nordic Notes Finland/Bulgaria 38 VODOU ALE Chouk Bwa & The Angströmers Bongo Joe Haiti/Belgium 39 STORMWEERE Spilar Trad Rec Belgium 40 20 Besh o droM Fono Hungary 41 GITANA MORA La Banda Morisca Producciones Monfies Spain 42 CURANDERO Orkesta Mendoza Glitterbeat USA/Mexico 43 HEDUR - SOLACE OF TIME Aynur Dreyer Gaido Turkey 44 NAYDA! Bab L'Bluz Real World Morocco 45 FRIXX Frigg Frigg Finland 46 LA LOCURA DE MACHUCA 1975-1980 various artists Analog Africa Colombia 47 CONTRAPUNTO Tanxugueiras Calaverita records Spain (Galicia) 48 VOICES OF THE SANI Manhu Riverboat Records China 49 MISS COLOMBIA Lido Pimienta Anti Colombia 50 MATKA/THE PATH Piirainen, Blom, Company Bafe's Factory Finland 51 PARHUZAMOK ES KONTRASZTOK - PARALLELS AND CONTRAST Muzsikas & Amadinda Fono Hungary 52 FUNREAL SONGS Fra Fra Glitterbeat Ghana 53 WASHABALAL' UMHLABA / EARTH SONG Black Umfolosi ARC Zimbabwe 54 WHITE WORLD - MUSIC FOR DANCE AND... Boris Kovac New Ritual Quartet Kachara Home Productions Serbia 55 OVERSEAS Nguyen Le ACT Vietnam/France 56 TORM VEEKLAASIS/TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT Tuulikki Bartosik Rootbeat Records Nordic Notes ? Estonia/Finland 57 REJOICE Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela World Circuit Nigeria/Southafrica 58 EL CAMINO DE LOS VIENTOS Matthieu Saglio ACT Spain/various 59 KEZEREN KOIHT Folk Group Merema CPL Russia(Mordovia) 60 AFROPENTATONISM Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur Piranha Niger/Ethiopia 61 OULAD LGHABA Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou ajabu! Morocco 62 SISSOKO & SISSOKO Ballake Sissoko & Baba Sissoko Homerecords Mali 63 JOLA - HIDDEN GNAWA MUSIC IN BRUSSELS Jola Muziekpublique Belgium/Morocco 64 THE SILVER MESSENGERS Carmen Souza Galileo MC Cape Verde/Portugal 65 STAR FEMININE BAND Star Feminine Band Born Bad Benin 66 LA MELANCOLIE ROYALE - MEDITATION SOUFI Kudsi Erguner Seyir Muzik Turkey 67 AMARELO Emicida Sterns Brazil Brazil 68 KHARIFA Habib Koite Contre-Jour Mali 69 MAGIC SPIRIT QUARTET Majid Bekkas ACT Morocco 70 MAGHREB K7 CLUB: SYNTH RAI, CHAOUI & STAIFI (1985-1997) various artists Bongo Joe France/Algeria 71 WHEN THE WAVES Terez Sliman Kirkelig Kulturverksted Israel (Palestine) 72 SEMITICS 47Soul Cooking Vinyl Jemen/Palestine/UK WMCE Year 2020 - 2
73 KARTULIA Shara Memo Music Georgia 74 WILD GAMES Vedan Kolod CPL Music Russia 75 TOPA-K DJ Makala & Korrontzi Elkar Spain (Basque) 76 LEVE LEVE - SAO TOME ET PRINCIPE SOUND 70s-80s various artists Bongo Joe various 77 SPIRAALIT/SPIRALS Niemi Bafe's Factory Finland 78 RECIFE 19 DJ Dolores Sterns Brazil 79 A BOY & A GIRL Magali Sare & Sebastia Gris Microscopi Records Spain (Cat) 80 LATEXO Xose Lois Romero & Aliboria Raso Estudio Spain (Galicia) 81 TOUKI Modou Toure ARC Mali 82 TORB Els Berros de la cort Microscopi Records Spain (Catalonia) 83 LA FOLIA Jelena Poprzan Lotus Serbia/Austria 84 HERIM KUDA Brader Musiki Terp Records Iraq (kurdish) 85 STOPY Michal Noga Band Nogaband Slovakia 86 HERE & THERE / EDO KI EKEI Dimitris Mystakidis Fishbowl Greece 87 MEETING A.G.A. Trio Naxos various 88 ANNORE Malick Pathe Sow Muzikpublique Senegal/Belgium 89 BOST Xabi Aburruzaga DND Spain (Basque) 90 ATIMO Ian Lasserre Ajabu! Brazil 91 KALOLI Nihiloxica Crammed Uganda 92 TOMBOUCTOU Al Bilali Soudan Clermont Music Mali 93 Buot Ealla Kajsa Balto DAT Norway (Sampmi) 94 DZIESMAS NO AULEJAS - SONGS FROM AULEJA Tautumeitas CPL Music Latvia 95 L'UDOVA HUDBA POKOSOVCI 2 Pokosovci Tradana Slovakia 96 FLAMENCO LEAKS Jorge Pardo - Carles Benavent & Tino di Geraldo Mapa Records Spain 97 IKIVIRTA Sarah Palu Sarah Palu Finland/France 98 MOUSALAT ILA JACKED EL ARB Issam Hajali Habibi Funk Lebanon 99 SUL FILO Iva Bittova & Paolo Angeli ReRMegacorp Czech Rep./Italy 100 EVERYBODY GET AGENDA Bantu Soledad Productions Nigeria 101 MOVITI FERMA Eleonora Bordonaro Finistere Italy 102 FU CHRONICLES Antibalas Daptone USA 103 AGORA Bebel Gilberto PIAS Recordings Brazil 104 RASTILHO Kiko Dinucci Tratore Brazil 105 SANACION Maria Jose Llergo Sony Spain 106 STRØMMEN Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band Galileo Denmark 107 ISTANBUL Shantel & Cümüz Cemaat Essay Recordings Germany/Turkey 108 SAY IT Dantchev:Domain Glomama Music Finland/Bulgaria 109 EVERY CHILD IS A PROPHET various artists Kirkelig Kulturverksted Syria/Norway 110 NUMEN Melodie Gimard One World Records various 111 ÄITI MAA - MOTHER EARTH Zäpämmät Inkoon Musiikki Finland 112 FORTUNA Amsterdam Klezmer Band Vatnasj Records Netherlands 113 APKA! Ceu Som Livre Brazil 114 THE PROMISE Mehmet Polat Aftab Records Turkey 115 CUBANERO Yuliesky Gonzales One World Records Cuba 116 KAMARA Agi Herczku es a Banda Fono Hungary 117 LA RODA DEL VIENTO Dorantes Flamenco Scultura Spain 118 KWETU Fadhilee Itulya Naxos World Kenya 119 KRAITIS IS PELKES Sen Svaja CPL Music/Dangus Lithuania 120 ZONA ZERO Remna Trem azul Guinee-Bissau 121 LES BATEAUX Mamadou Kelly Clermont Music Mali 122 FIN'AMOR Lamia Bedioui & Solis Barki Lbedioui Music Prod Tunisia/Greece 123 SOUNDPLACES Derya Turkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos Seyir Muzik Turkey/Greece 124 REBENTO Companhia do Canto Popular Sons Vadios Portugal 125 ANDALUCIA El Amir Zoo Music/Galileo MC Spain 126 TENIM I TINDREM La Coixinera Segell Microscopi Spain (Catalonia) 127 IN TRAD WE TRUST Sväng Galileo Finland 128 GOT TO BE TOUGH Toots and The Maytals Trojan Jamaica 129 APPLE ORCHARD ALBUM / OUNAAIA ALBUM Mari Kalkun Aigu Om Records Estonia 130 MAAILAM SA MUUTUD/ SVIT, TY MINJAESCHSJA Svjata:Vatra Nordic Notes Estonia/Ukraine 131 11th STREET SEKONDI Gyedu-Blay Ambolley Agogo Records Ghana 132 MONDO! La Repetition Finisterre Italy 133 UDU Udu CPL Music Russia (Buryatia)/Lithuania 134 O CEU E VELHO HA MUITO TEMPO Lucas Santtana No Format! Brazil 135 MUKAMBO PRESENTS GLOBAL AFROBEAT MOVEMENT various artists NYP various 136 TINN TOUT Danyel Waro Cobalt/Buda La Reunion 137 LONG TIME PASSING: KRONOS QUARTET & FRIENDS CELEBRATE PETE SEEGER Kronos Quartet & Friends Smithsonian USA 138 EFEKT MOTYLA Mariposa Chillizet Poland/Cuba 139 KUMA Kankou Cannery Row records Mali/UK (Scotland)/France 140 NORDIC ROUTE Petri Hakala & Markku Lepistö Rapusaari Rec Finland 141 THE DANCING DEVILS OF DJIBOUTI Groupe RTD Ostinato Records Djibouti 142 ALENTEJO VOL.1: EVORA Omiri Bigorna Portugal 143 SOUL SEGA Vol.2 - INDIAN OCEAN SEGAS FROM THE 90s various artists Bongo Joe various Indian Ocean 144 JE SUIS AFRICAIN Rachid Taha Naive Algeria/France 145 TRECI BILBIL Afion Spona Croatia/Macedonia 146 HALAK HALAK Zenobia Crammed Palestine 147 REJWACH Kroke Oriente Music Poland 148 DO AVESSO Antonio Zambujo MDC Portugal 149 LIGA LATINA Liga Latina Multination Denmark 150 MIROIRS Quintet Bumbac Cok Malko France