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2. Kronos Quartet, Mahsa & Marjan VahdatPlaceless – Kirkelig Kulturverksted (1)
3. Waed BouhassounSafar: Les Âmes Retrouvées – Buda Musique (4)
4. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni BaMiri – Outhere (2)
5. Alim Qasimov and Michel GodardAwakening – Buda Musique (14)
6. Minyo CrusadersEchoes of Japan – Mais Um (-)
7. The Gloaming3 – Real World (21)
8. Las Hermanas CaronniSanta Plástica – Les Grands Fleuves (16)
9. AKA TrioJoy – Bendigedig (-)
10. Kel AssoufBlack Tenere – Glitterbeat (7)11. Leyla McCallaThe Capitalist Blues – Jazz Village / PIAS (9)
12. Le Trio JoubranThe Long March – Cooking Vinyl (3)
13. Ifriqiyya ÉlectriqueLaylet el Booree – Glitterbeat ()
14. Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring KrokeSer – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT (11)
15. OratnitzaAlter Ethno – Fusion Embassy (12)
16. Söndörgő – Nyolc 8 Nyolc – SNDRG Music (-)
17. Kanazoé OrkestraTolonso – Buda Musique (-)
18. Adir JanLeyla – Trikont / BGST (20)
19. Altın GünGece – Glitterbeat (-)
20. Coşkun Karademir QuartetÖz / Essence – Kalan (39)

21. Olcay BayırRüya: Dream for Anatolia – ARC Music (15)
22. Aziz Sahmaoui & University of GnawaPoetic Trance – PIAS (-)
23. Xiomara FortunaSon Verdad – Ileakwa Producciones (18)
24. Our Native DaughtersSongs of Our Native Daughters – Smithsonian Folkways (23)
25. DobranotchMerčedes Kolo – CPL-Music (-)
26. TartitAmankor / The Exile – Riverboat / World Music Network (5)
27. Mary Ann KennedyGlaschu: Hometown Love Song – ARC Music (-)
28. Hama SankareNiafunke – Clermont Music (30)
29. Le Vent du NordTerritoires – Borealis (-)
30. Rachele Andrioli & Rocco NigroMaletiempu – Dodicilune (-)

31. LauMidnight and Closedown – Reveal (-)
32. Rodopi EnsembleThraki: Thrace, the Paths of Dionysus – ARC Music (22)
33. EquusTailwind Home – Equus (-)
34. ÁššuÁššu – Bafe’s Factory (-)
35. Black FlowerFuture Flora – Sdban Ultra (-)
36. Umut AdanBahar – Riverboat / World Music Network (33)
37. Rupa & the April FishesGrowing Upward – Electric Gumbo Radio Music (-)
38. Yann-Fañch KemenerRoudennoù / Traces – Buda Musique (31)
39. Alfredo Rodríguez & Pedrito MartínezDuologue – Mack Avenue (19)
40. Dhafer YoussefSounds of Mirrors – Anteprima (10)

Transglobal World Music Chart (TWMC) is a network of world music specialised journalists, critics, writers, DJs… from all the continents, that produces a monthly chart (and also an annual one), according to quality criteria, selecting the best recent world music albums from all over the world.

Transglobal World Music Chart is an independent non-profit initiative created and launched in partnership by Mundofoníasand World Music Central teams.

To know more about the chart, visit: www.transglobalwmc.com
Meet the members of the panel: www.transglobalwmc.com/members
How can I submit an album?
Artists, labels, publicists… can easily submit for free their releases for the members’ consideration. Please check the Album Submissions page for more details about the requirements and procedures.My album is in the Chart!
Congrats! This means that your album has achieved many votes from a panel of specialists from all over the world. You can proudly boast that you have charted on Transglobal World Music Chart showing one of the TWMC’s seals, our logo or banner. Pick them freely from our Media section.

Can I publish the Chart?
Of course. The aim of our work is to provide the maximum dissemination of this music. You can publish the chart freely with the only condition that you mention the whole name of the chart as follows: Transglobal World Music Chart. Including a link to our website and the TWMC logo will be highly appreciated. If you publish the chart in a regular basis, you can send us your logo and a link, that will be placed on the Partners section of our website. And if you send us a link with your publication of the chart, we’ll share it on our social networks.

The monthly chart is always published on the 1st day of each month. If you work for any media outlet interested in publishing the chart and you need to get the results earlier, let us know and we’ll send you a preview every month in advance. And if you want to be our media partner, get in touch with us as well.

Founder members and administrators: Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES)

Current members: Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros(CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN)

TWMC Festival Awards

Application open for the 2019 Festival Awards!!
As part of its goal to increase the appreciation of the music from the cultures of the world, as a tool for the development of people in many areas of life, as well as for joy and pleasure, the Transglobal World Music Chart launches the Festival Awards. The first edition took palce in 2018 and the application for the second edition (2019) is open.Learn more and apply here!
Check the 2018 winners