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1. Refugees for Refugees – Amerli – Muziekpublique
2. Bixiga 70 – III – Glitterbeat Records
3. Aziza Brahim – Abbar el Hamada – Glitterbeat Records
4. Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina – Glitterbeat Records
5. Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko – Jardins Migrateurs – Ma Case
6. Rokia Traoré – Né So – Nonesuch Records
7. Elza Soares – The Woman at the End of the World / A Mulher do Fim do Mundo – Mais Um Discos
8. Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble – Sing Me Home – Sony Masterworks
9. Kayhan Kalhor, Aynur, Cemîl Qoçgirî & Salman Gambarov – Hawniyaz – Harmonia Mundi
10. Bonga – Recados de Fora – Lusafrica
11. Harold López-Nussa – El Viaje – Mack Avenue Records
12. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – Musique de Nuit – Nø Førmat! / Six Degrees Records
13. Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis – Nyn – Riverboat Records
14. Ana Alcaide – Leyenda – ARC Music
15. Sam Lee & Friends – The Fade in Time – The Nest Collective
16. Richard Bona & Mandekan Cubano – Heritage – Qwest Records
17. Lakou Mizik – Wa Di Yo – Cumbancha
18. Bombino – Azel – Partisan Records
19. The Gloaming – 2 – Real World Records
20. Las Hermanas Caronni – Navega Mundos – Les Grands Fleuves
21. Calypso Rose – Far from Home – Because Music
22. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express – Junun – Nonesuch Records
23. Sidestepper – Supenatural Love – Real World Records
24. Fanfare Ciocărlia – 20 – Asphalt Tango Records
25. Kepa Junkera & Sorginak – Maletak – Fol Música
26. Roberto Fonseca – ABUC – Impulse!
27. La Banda Morisca – Algarabya – Fol Música
28. Leyla McCalla – A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey – Jazz Village
29. Jean-Guihen Queyras, Bijan Chemirani, Keyvan Chemirani & Sokratis Sinopoulos – Thrace: Sunday Morning Sessions – Harmonia Mundi
30. Anoushka Shankar – Land of Gold – Deutsche Grammophon
31. Bitori – Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands – Analog Africa
32. Khmer Rouge Survivors – They Will Kill You, if You Cry – Glitterbeat Records
33. 2016: Afro Celt Sound System – The Source – ECC Record
34. Mabiisi – Mabiisi – Akwaaba Music
35. Mariem Hassan – La Voz Indómita (del Sáhara Occidental) – Nubenegra
36. Quintet Bumbac – Libre Voyage dans les Musiques des Balkans – Collectif Çok Malko
37. Vigüela – Temperamento – ARC Music
38. DagaDana – Meridian 68 – Karrot Kommando
39. Baaba Maal – The Traveller – Marathon Artists / Palm Recordings
40. Alsarah & The Nubatones – Manara – Wonderwheel Recordings
41. Sociedade Recreativa – Sociedade Recreativa – La Chaudière Production / Jarring Effects
42. Tuuletar – Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal – Bafe’s Factory
43. Lura – Herança – Lusafrica
44. Zulya and the Children of the Underground – On Love and Science – Zulya and the Children of the Underground
45. Tanga – Madagascar: Le Trésor des Ancêtres – Buda Musique
46. Mahsa Vahdat – A Cappella: The sun will rise – Kirkelig Kulturverksted
47. Çiğdem Aslan – A Thousand Cranes – Asphalt Tango Records
48. L’Attirail – La Route Interieure – Les Chantiers Sonores
49. Karsh Kale – Up – Six Degrees Records
50. Kreiz Breizh Akademi – 5ed Round – Innacor

Current members of the TWMC panel: Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), 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), 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), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR).

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1. Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Ba Power – Glitterbeat Records
2. Sam Lee & Friends – The Fade in Time – The Nest Collective
3. Bixiga 70 – III – Glitterbeat Records
4. Monsieur Doumani – Sikoses – Monsieur Doumani
5. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino – Quaranta – Ponderosa Music & Art
6. Lila Downs – Balas y Chocolate – Sony Music
7. Ludovico Einaudi – Taranta Project – Ponderosa Music & Art
8. Efrén López – El Fill del Llop – Buda Musique
9. Cheikh Lô – Balbalou – Chapter Two Records
10. Songhoy Blues – Music in Exile – Transgressive Records
11. Totó la Momposina – Tambolero – Real World Records
12. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal – Musique de Nuit – Nø Førmat! / Six Degrees Records
13. Lura – Herança – Lusafrica
14. BKO Quintet – Bamako Today – Buda Musique
15. Kapela Maliszów – Mazurki Niepojęte – Karrot Kommando
16. Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band – Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band – Strut Records
17. Kandia Kouyaté – Renascence – Sterns Music
18. Taraf de Haïdouks – Of Lovers, Gamblers and Parachute Skirts – Crammed Discs
19. Buena Vista Social Club – Lost and Found – World Circuit
20. Kardeş Türküler – Kerwanê – Network Medien / Membran / Kalan Müzik
21. Terakaft – Alone – Outhere Records
22. Tiganá Santana – Tempo & Magma – Ajabu!
23. Kelly Thoma – 7 Fish – Kelly Thoma
24. El Naán – Código de Barros – ARC Music
25. Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa – World Circuit
26. Dizu Plaatjies and Friends – Ubuntu-The Common String – Mountain Records
27. Amadou Balaké – In Conclusion – Sterns Music
28. Youssou N’Dour et le Super Étoile de Dakar – Fatteliku (Live in Athens 1987) – Real World Records
29. Carles Dénia i La Nova Rimaire – L’Home Insomne – Comboi Records
30. Griselda Sanderson – Radial – Waulk Records
31. Souad Massi – El Mutakallimûn – Wrasse Records
32. Samba Touré – Gandadiko – Glitterbeat Records
33. Le Vent Du Nord – Têtu – Borealis Records
34. Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin – Touristes – Six Degrees Records
35. Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca – At Home – Jazz Village / Harmonia Mundi
36. Anouar Brahem – Souvenance – ECM Records
37. Daby Touré – Amonafi – Cumbancha
38. Titi Robin avec Mehdi Nassouli – Taziri – World Village / Harmonia Mundi
39. Blick Bassy – Akö – Nø Førmat!
40. The Souljazz Orchestra – Resistance – Strut Records
41. St Germain – St Germain – Nonesuch Records
42. Anoushka Shankar – Home – Deutsche Grammophon
43. Seckou Keita – 22 Strings – ARC Music
44. Officina Zoè – Mamma Sirena – Anima Mundi
45. Te Vaka – Amataga – Warm Earth Records
46. Lamia Bedioui & The Desert Fish – Athamra – Lamia Bedioui & The Desert Fish
47. Den Sorte Skole – Indians & Cowboys – Den Sorte Skole
48. Bolo – Bolo – Bolo Music
49. Čači Vorba – Šatrika – Oriente Musik
50. Mahsa Vahdat – Traces of an Old Vineyard – Kirkelig Kulturverksted

Members of the TWMC panel (Best of 2015 vote): Ángel Romero (US), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Patrik Lindgren (SE), 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), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO), 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), Dubi Lenz (IL), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), João Flávio Lima (BR), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR)