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