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1 Bombino – Azel – Partisan Records (7)
2 Aziza Brahim – Abbar el Hamada – Glitterbeat Records (2=)
3 Rokia Traoré – Né So – Nonesuch Records (1)
4 La Banda Morisca – Algarabya – Fol Música (9)
5 Konono Nº1 meets Batida – Konono Nº1 meets Batida – Crammed Discs (8)
6 Lakou Mizik – Wa Di Yo – Cumbancha (12)
7 Fanfare Ciocărlia – Onwards to Mars! – Asphalt Tango Records (6)
8 The Gloaming – 2 – Real World Records (4)
9 Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona – Soundcity – Finisterre (-)
10 Katerina Tsiridou – Aman Katerina: A Tribute to Panayiotis Toundas – Protasis Music (15)

11 Sociedade Recreativa – Sociedade Recreativa – La Chaudière Production / Jarring Effects (16)
12 Damir Imamović’s Sevdah Takht – Dvojka – Glitterbeat Records (-)
13 V.A. – Every Song Has its End: Sonic Dispatches from Traditional Mali – Glitterbeat Records (28)
14 Las Hermanas Caronni – Navega Mundos – Les Grands Fleuves (3)
15 Anoushka Shankar – Land of Gold – Deutsche Grammophon (-)
16 DagaDana – Meridian 68 – Karrot Kommando (-)
17 Sidestepper – Supernatural Love – Real World Records (5)
18 Elza Soares – The Woman at the End of the World / A Mulher do Fim do Mundo – Mais Um Discos (-)
19 Karsh Kale – Up – Six Degrees Records (14)
20 Päre – Hausjärvi Beat – Zebo Records (31)

21 2016: Afro Celt Sound System – The Source – ECC Records (-)
22 Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus – Al Viento – InFiné (-)
23 Pulsar Trio – Cäthes Traum – T3 Records (-)
24 Filippo Gambetta – Otto Baffi – Filippo Gambetta (-)
25 Eva Salina – Lema Lema: Eva Salina Sings Šaban Bajramović – Vogiton Records (35)
26 Manuel Volpe & Rhabdomantic Orchestra – Albore – Agogo Records (-)
27 Zulya and The Children of the Underground – On Love & Science – Zulya and The Children of the Undergroud (17)
28 Amsterdam Klezmer Band – Oyoyoy – Amsterdam Klezmer Band (-)
29 Vesevo  – Vesevo – Agualoca Records (-)
30 Michael Messer’s Mitra – Call of the Blues – Knife Edge Records (17)

31 Osei Korankye – Seperewa of Ghana: Ɛmmerɛ nyina nsɛ – Akwaaba Music (32)
32 Vigüela – Temperamento – ARC Music (30)
33 (ex aequo) Josemi Carmona & Javier Colina – De Cerca – Universal Music Spain (-)
33 (ex aequo) Galandum Galundaina – Quatrada – Açor (26) 
35 Claudia Aurora – Mulher do Norte – Red Orange Recordings (-)
36 Joseph Tawadros – World Music – Joseph Tawadros (-)
37 Rocky Marsiano – Meu Kamba Vol. Dois – Akwaaba Music (-)
38 Kimi Djabaté – Kanamalu – Red Orange Recordings (-)
39 Seheno – Hazo Kely – Lokanga (-)
40 Afenginn – Opus – Tutl / Westpark Music (-)  

Members of the TWMC panel (April 2016 vote): Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), 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), Ian Anderson (GB), 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), Sergey Maiboroda (KZ), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS).

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