December 2018

1  Afro Celt Sound System  Flight ECC (11↑) 2. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (1↓) 3. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (4↑) 4. Bixiga 70 – Quebra-Cabeça – Glitterbeat (3↓) 5. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe (7↑) 6. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (2↓) 7. Doctor Nativo – Guatemaya – Stonetree (10↑) 8. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (5↓) 9. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa (9=) 10. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (19↑)11. Danças Ocultas – Dentro desse Mar – Danças Ocultas (20↑) 12. Lemma – Lemma – Buda Musique (15↑) 13. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music (6↓) 14. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda – El Ndjoum – Airfono (27↑) 15. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song (22↑) 16. Dawda Jobarteh – I Met Her by the River – Sterns Music (17↑) 17. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (18↑) 18. Cimbalom Brothers – Testvériség / Brotherhood – Fonó Budai Zeneház (13↓) 19. Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa: Early Singles – Glitterbeat (16↓) 20. Catarina dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music (24↑)21. Amira Kheir – Mystic Dance – Sterns Music (31↑) 22. Winston Mcanuff & Fixi – Big Brothers – Chapter Two / Wagram (-↑) 23. Moulay Ahmed El Hassani – Atlas Electric – Hive Mind (-↑) 24. Takula – Takula – XA Music (-↑) 25. Delgres – Mo Jodi – Jazz Village (28↑) 26. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (25↓) 27. Domna Samiou – Music from Greece – Caprice  (-↑) 28. Harouna Samake – Kamale Blues – One World (32↑) 29. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (-↑)30. BandAdriatica – Odissea – Finisterre (35↑) 31. Dobranotch – 20 Years – CPL-Music (-↑) 32. Sekou Bah – Soukabbè Mali – Clermont Music (21↓) 33. Kalàscima – K – Ponderosa Music & Art (-↑) 34. Vivalda Dula – Dula – Vivalda Dula Music (-↑) 35. Okonkolo – Cantos – Big Crown (26↓) 36. Ann O’aro – Ann O’aro – Cobalt / Buda Musique (30↓) 37. Manou Gallo – Afro Groove Queen – Contre-Jour (-↑) 38. Ammar 808 – Maghreb United – Glitterbeat (12↓) 39. Moussu T e lei Jovents – Opérette Volume 2 – Manivette (38↓) 40. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (34↓) Download the chart as PDF file: 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.

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