The Year 2021
WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE
Year 2021
796 nominated releases
Compiled by Milan Tesar on behalf of the World Music Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
1 MERIDIANA . Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino . Italy . Ponderosa Records
2 UWODZENIE/WATERDUCTION . Warsaw Village Band . Poland . Karrot Kommando
3 PISSOURIN . Monsieur Doumani . Cyprus . Glitterbeat
4 KKISMETTIN . Antonis Antoniou . Cyprus . Ajabu!
5 ZAN . Liraz . Israel/Iran . Glitterbeat
6 A PRINCIPIU . L'Alba . France . Buda Musique
7 SISYPHUS . Sofia Labropoulou . Greece . Odradek
8 YOL . Altin Gün . Netherlands . Glitterbeat
9 BINGA . Samba Touré . Mali . Glitterbeat
10 MOTYLE . Tara Fuki . Czech Republic . Indies Scope
11 MEDITERRANEO OSTINATO . Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona . Italy . Finisterre
12 IT WASN'T HARD TO LOVE YOU . Fanfare Ciocarlia . Romania . Asphalt Tango Records
13 ANOURA . Anansy Cissé . Mali . World Music Network
14 DJOUROU . Ballake Sissoko . Mali . No Format
15 NUBA NOVA . Speed Caravan & Hamdi Benani . France/Algeria . Buda Musique
16 COULEUR . Dobet Gnahoré . Ivory Coast . Cumbancha
17 SOAKED . Las Lloronas . Belgium/various . Muziekpublique
18 VIIMANE SUUSATAJA . Puuluup . Estonia . Ounaviks
19 XALAM . Ben Aylon . Israel . World Music Network
20 LA LOCURA DE MACHUCA . various . Colombia . Analog Africa
21 CHANGUI - THE SOUND OF GUANTANAMO . various . Cuba . Petaluma
22 WE WILL NEVER DIE . Yat-Kha . Russia (Tuva) . Lollipoppe Shoppe
23 ZAR . Mazaher . Egypt . Ajabu!
24 AMBUYA! . Stella Chiweshe . Zimbabwe . Piranha
25 10 A.D. . Tania Saleh . Lebanon . KKV
26 ABANTU/BEFORE HUMANS . BLK JKS . South Africa . Glitterbeat
27 SAMA'I . Azmari . Belgium . Sdban
28 GRIFONE . Pulcinella & Maria Mazzotta . France/Italy . Compagnie Pulcinella
29 BLACK ANTS ALWAYS FLY TOGETHER. . Kasai Allstars . DR Congo . Crammed
30 HENNA - YOUNG FEMALE VOICES FROM PALESTINE . various . Palestine . KKV
31 NOUARA . Kamel el Harrachi . Algeria . Kamiyad
32 START . Lajkó Félix Band . Hungary . Fonó
33 COSMOLOGIES . Marjo Smolander . Finland . self released
34 SHANU . Monoswezi . Mozambique/Norway/Sweden/Zimbabwe . World Music Network
35 MUSECA . Nando Citarella & Tamburi del Vesuvio . Italy . Alfa Music
36 ISLAND CATCH . Fade to Blue (David Chen & Chung Yufeng) . Taiwan . Trees Music
37 AN EAST AFRICAN JOURNEY . Omar Sosa . Cuba/various . Ota Records
38 PALABRAS URGENTES . Susana Baca . Peru . Real World
39 22 . Hrdza . Slovakia . self released
40 KHAIRA ARBY IN NEW YORK . Khaira Arby . Mali . Clermont Music
41 WE ARE AN ISLAND, BUT WE'RE NOT ALONE . Comorian . Comoros . Glitterbeat
42 SONGS OF EXILE . Abdelli . Algeria . ARC
43 DABA . Saucejas . Latvia . CPL Music
44 MINKA . Eva Quartet . Bulgaria . World Music Network
45 BURKINA HAKILI . Kady Diarra . Burkina Faso . Lamastrock
46 HANGSZÍN . Mónika Lakatos & The Gipsy Voices . Hungary . Folk Európa
47 HARPS OVER THE OSLAVA RIVER . Castaneda/Finch/Keita + Suranska . Colombia/UK/Senegal/Czech republic . MeKs Namest nad Oslavou
48 SUBA . Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita . Cuba/Senegal . Bendigedig
49 CAMEROON GARAGE FUNK . various artists . Cameroon . Analog Africa
50 VILLOI VARSA . Celenka . Finland . Nordic Notes
51 NAYAN NAVAA . Namgar . Russia (Buryatia) . Naxos
52 STAR FEMININE BAND . Star Feminine Band . Benin . Born Bad
53 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ESPETACULAR . A Espetacular Charanga do França . Brazil . Mais Um
54 NDUGGU . Rafiki Jazz . UK . Koni Music
55 GEODESIA . Luis Peixoto . Portugal . Groove Punch Studios
56 STILL MOVING . Justin Adams & Mauro Durante . Italy/UK . Ponderosa
57 BOULA . Bonga Jean-Baptiste . Haiti . Buda Musique
58 KOLOGO . Alostmen . Ghana . Strut
59 CIHKKOJUVVON . Gajanas . Finland . Bafe's Factory/Nordic Notes
60 RASTILHO . Kiko Dinucci . Brazil . Mais um Discos
61 AN ECLECTIC SELECTION OF MUSIC FROM THE ARAB WORLD, PT. 2 . various artists . various . Habibi Funk
62 UMBRAL . Sofia Rei . Argentina . Cascabelera
63 AYOM . Ayom . Brazil/Angola/Italy . Amplifica Records
64 EDO FUNK EXPLOSION VOL. 1 . various artists . Nigeria . Analog Africa
65 GANDHI . Rao Kyao . Portugal . Galileo
66 FINE ANYWAY . Roger Fakhr . Lebanon . Habibi Funk
67 NESRINE . Nesrine . France . ACT
68 JAK SE MACE? . Ludova hudba Stana Balaza . Slovakia . self released
69 MY LAST SONG . Esma Redzepova & Nune Brothers . North Macedonia . ARC
70 CHANGYS BAGLAASH . Khöömei Beat . Russia (Tuva) . ARC Music
71 ONE MORNING IN GURGAON . Guy Buttery, Mohd. Amjan Khan, Mudassir Khan . South Africa/India . World Music Network
72 LASTENKERÄÄJÄ . Akkajee . Finland . self released
73 BEYOND THE BLUE . Brain Damage meets Big Youth . France / Jamaica . Jarring Effects
74 EXCAVATED SHELLAC: AN ALTERNATE HISTORY. . various . various . Dust to Digital
75 DE CONAKRY A BARCELONE . Nakany Kante . Guinea/Spain . Kasba Music
76 DISKO TELEGRAF . Balkan Taksim . Romania . Buda Musique
77 HELSINKI-COTONOU ENSEMBLE . Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble . Finland/Benin . No Problem!/Flowfish
78 XOGO . Radio Tutti & Barilla Sisters . France . Lamastrock
79 HORIZONTE 2 . Charis Alexiou . Greece . Monopol Records
80 KLYUKVA . Staritsa . Russia . CPL Music
81 PRO RADOST . Iva Bittová . Czech Republic . Indies Scope
82 THE BIG SLALOM . Cserepes Károly . Hungary . Fonó
83 HORUCA SLZA . Miriam Kaiser . Slovakia . Kaiser husliarsky dom
84 UNBOUNDED . Purbayan Chatterjee . India . Sufiscore
85 PECATA BEATA . Carola Ortiz . Spain (Catalonia) . Microscopi
86 RIVER OF HAPPY SOULS . Bapi Das Baul . India . ARC
87 REKA . Lenka Dusilová . Czech republic . Animal Music
88 2021 . Zuros Banda . Hungary . Fonó
89 TRETZE VARES . Cati Plana & Pau Puig . Spain (Catalonia) . Microscopi
90 IN TRAD WE TRUST . Sväng . Finland . Galileo MC
91 AO VIVO NA CASINHA . Celina da Piedade . Portugal . Sons Vadios
92 L'INFINIT . Francesc Sans . Spain (Catalonia) . Microscopi
93 LIVE AT TOU . Angrusori . Slovakia/Norway/Czech Rep. . Hudson
94 NE REJTSD EL . Ötödik Évszak . Hungary . Fonó
95 MOPEPE MAMA . Syssi Mananga . Belgium/Congo . self released
96 NAVEGAR . Joao Selva . Brazil . Underdog
97 GERASONOBU . Elida Almeida . Cape Verde . Lusafrica
98 LA MAR . La Cantiga de la Serena . Italy . Fonosfere
99 SLUTTE OG BYNE . Valkyrien Allstars . Norway . Grappa Musikkforlag
100 KÜLA . LaTaty . Chile . self released
101 ABOUT TOWERS . Wör . Belgium . ARC
102 MERSI . Christine Salem . France (Reunion) . Blue Fanal
103 CISSOKO HERITAGE . Maher Cissoko . Senegal . Ajabu!
104 REPUBLICAFROBEAT VOL. 5 MUJERES 2 . various . various . Kasba Music
105 SALE CARACTERE . Massilia Sound System . France . Manivette Records
106 LEGACY+ . Femi Kuti & Made Kuti . Nigeria . Partisan
107 LUMBA . Tamala . Senegal/Belgium . Muziekpublique
108 GAUDEAMUS OMNES . Alexandrae . Spain (Catalonia) . Segell Microscopi
109 KUZNE PESMI . Katalena . Slovenia . Zalozba Pivec
110 TAISA . Mec Yek . Belgium/Slovakia . Choux de Bruxelles
111 LA GRANDE FOLIE . San Salvador . France . Pagans/Pias
112 MOTHER NATURE . Angelique Kidjo . Benin . Universal
113 OLIN ENNEN . Barbora Xu . Czech Republic . Nordic Notes
114 THE GUESTHOUSE SESSIONS . Naragonia . Belgium . Trad Records
115 MUJ MILY . Nivnička . Czech republic . Indies Happy Trails
116 THE BIRTH OF A SCENE . various . Serbia . WMAS
117 BOLO SABA . Bará . Belgium/Mali/Iran . Homerecords.be
118 ESSIEBONS SPECIAL 1973-84/GHANA MUSIC POWER HOUSE . various . Ghana . Analog Africa
119 AIRE! . Caamano & Ameixeiras . Spain (Galicia) . Microscopi
120 LEAVE THE BONES . Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray . Haiti/UK . Anjunabeat
121 NOCTURNE . David Walters . France . Heavenly Sweetness
122 FÖRBUNDET . Garmarna . Sweden . Season of Mist
123 MISST.EU . Misst . Belgium . I-C-UB4-T
124 PRAYER'S TALE . Joji Hirota . Japan . ARC
125 AAMUNKOI . Pekko Käppi & KHHL . Finland . Svart Records
126 ANIMAL REPUBLIC . Besarabia . Spain (Valencia) . Microscopi
127 GREAT TUNES FROM THE WMCE . various . various . CPL
128 1902 . Kata . Faroe Islands . Tutl
129 SPICY MARGARITA . Thanos Stavridis . Greece . Artway
130 OPTIMISME . Songhoy Blues . Mali . Transgressive Records
131 VAROKAA! . Suistamon Sähko . Finland . Nordic Notes
132 GUSLE - THE EPIC TRADITION OF SETBIA . various . Serbia . WMAS
133 UDONDOLO . Urban Village . South Africa . No Format
134 EARTH . Ivana Mer . Slovakia . Slnko Records
135 RESILIENCE . Rachel Magoola . Uganda . ARC
136 HOKIN JANAPAR . Arsen Petrosyan . Armenia . ARC
137 SOUNDPLACES . Derya Turkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos . Turkey/Greece . Seyir Muzik
138 VOCES DEL DESARRAIGO . Tundra . Spain . Nada Producciones
139 NA KOZONGA . Jupiter & Okwess . DR Congo . Rough Trade
140 ISYAN MANIFESTOSU . Gaye Su Akyol . Turkey . Glittebeat
141 NEXT GENERATION GYPSY DANCE . Esma's Band . North Macedonia . ARC
142 THE SOUND OF TELEMARK . Sigmund Groven & Knut Buen . Norway . Grappa Musikkforlag
143 NIEGUID DUOVDAGAT . Annamaret . Finland . Uksi Oy
144 STORMWEERE . Spilar . Belgium . Trad Rec
145 THE MAGIC OF VLACH MUSIC . various . Serbia . Gergina
146 EVERYBODY GET AGENDA . Bantu . Nigeria . Soledad Productions
147 THE BEGINNING, THE MEDIUM, THE END AND THE INFINITE . IKOQWE . Angola . Crammed Discs
148 LIVE IN LONGUEUIL . Kongero . Sweden . Nordic Notes
149 DA SVIDANIYA MADAME . Dan Gharibian Trio . France . Lamastrock
150 ENCORE: UNHEARD RECORDINGS OF BAHAMIAN GUITAR & SINGING . Joseph Spence . Bahamas . Smithsonian Folkways
151 RISPLEDNENTI, RIVERSI . Nataša Mirkovic & Michel Godard . Bosnia/France . Dreyer Gaido
152 STOPY . Michal Noga Band . Slovakia . Nogaband
153 UNTIL WHEN . Jaffa Road . Canada . self released
154 TAPES OF UTOPIA . Onipa . UK/Ghana . Boomerang Records
155 HUNGER OF THE SKIN . Brian Finnegan . Ireland . Singing Tree Music
156 MAMANS DU CONGO & RROBIN . Mamans du Congo & Rrobin . DR Congo . Jarring Effects
157 LA LOBA . La Chica . France/Venezuela . Zamora
158 ZANZIBARA 10. FIRST MODERN: TAARAB VIBES . various . Kenya / Tanzania . Buda Musique
159 SHOOLDYRAK . ShooDJa ChooDJa . Russia . CPL Music
160 LUBAMBA . Sam Mangwana . DR Congo . MDC
161 MERAKI . Mabel Flores . Spain (Catalonia) . Kasba Music
162 BELESIA . Ignacio Maria Gomez . Argentina . Helico music
163 GROOVE OF THE NILE . Nasser Kilada . Egypt . BSC Music
164 BENNESBEH LABOKRA. CHOU? . Ziad Rahbani . Lebanon . Wewantsounds
165 DRAMA . Rodrigo Amarante . Brazil . Polyvinyl
166 ASSOLIST . Efruze . Turkey . Dogan Music
167 BOM MESMO É ESTAR DEBAIXO D´ÁGUA . Luedji Luna . Brazil . self released
168 PANCADA MOTOR - TRANSFORMACAO E CURA . DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar . Brazil . Mundo Melhor
169 TERRA . MuOM Overtone Singing Choir . Spain (Catalonia) . Microscopi
170 RECEIVER . The Rheingans Sisters . UK . ARC
171 KVITRAVN . Wardruna . Norway . Music for Nations
172 PRADO. VIVE! . Raul Gutierrez & his Cuban Big Band . Cuba . Clasicos Latinos
173 IN THE WAKE OF MEMORIES . Mukdad/Rothenberg/Lankow . Syria/US/Germany . Clermont Music
174 AADO - SENEGALESE KORA . Kadialy Kouyate . Senegal . Naxos
175 ATLAS . Efrén López & Christos Barbas . Spain/Greece . Seyir Muzik
176 MI TUMBAO . Jose Alberto El Ruisenor . Cuba . Tumi Music
177 LITTLE UNIVERSE . A Moving Sound . Taiwan . ARC
178 NOTES FOR A MAIDEN WARRIOR . Dani Larkin . Ireland . Larkin Records
179 STILL AS YOUR SLEEPING . Karine Polwart & Dave Milligam . UK (Scotland) . Hudson Records
180 NONINO . Aigua . Spain (Valencia) . Segell Microscopi
181 BICHOS . Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos . Venezuela . Olindo Records
182 LINDE . Afel Bocoum . Mali . World Circuit
183 ÉLET . Palya Bea . Hungary . Palya Bea Produkció
184 RUKY NA DUDÁCH . Vlastimil Bjaček . Czech republic . Indies Scope
185 CANTA AMALIA . Mariza . Portugal . Warner Music
186 STARAN . Staran . UK (Scotland) . Staran Music
187 TERE TERE . Trio Lumi . Austria/Estonia/Slovenia . Playground Estonia
188 SU AKAR . AySay . Denmark . Nordic Notes
189 TRANSE DE PAPIER . Lo' Jo . France . Yotanka
190 VIA DE LA PLATA . Daniel Garcia Trio . Spain/Cuba . ACT
191 PAJAVASARA . Perttula . Finland . Bafe's Factory
192 TIRANA 100 . Tirana All Stars . Albania . Tirana Municipality
193 SIROMAHI I LAZARI . Ivan Grobenski . Croatia . Intek Music
194 FLORE . Gabriel Rios . Puerto Rico . Angelhead
195 KAPKA KE KAPCE . Flair Ensemble . Czech republic . Indies Happy Trails
196 IRUN . Nuri . Tunisia/Denmark . Shouka
197 CARICIAS . Katja Šulc . Slovenia . Casete
198 ENJOY . Claudio Prima & Seme . Italy . Ipe Ipe Records
199 LIFELINES . Balder ten Cate & friends . Netherlands/various . self released
200 AFRIQUE VICTIME . Mdou Moctar . Niger . Matador Records