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WOMEX 09 Top Label Award
Presented in cooperation with WMCE
In 2006 we inaugurated the Top Label Awards, honouring the top-20 charttopping music labels. Top Label No. 1 receives an official framed plaque at the WOMEX Awards ceremony.
Created as a joint project with the World Music Charts Europe, the selection is made using the charts of over 50 radio broadcasters from 25 countries. 540 different labels charted last year.
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Award 09
| The 4th Annual WOMEX Top Label Award
Already an institution, the yearly WOMEX Top Label Award is hotly contested and warmly anticipated by all who value the contributions of record labels.
The WOMEX 09 Top Label Award goes to...
 | Crammed Discs (Belgium)
Chart-topping CDs:
- Staff Benda Bilili: Très Très Fort
- Hector Zazou & Zwara: In the House of Mirrors
- Chicha Libre: Sonido Amizonico!
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Here are the remaining top-20 labels with their chart-topping CDs. All 20 winners can use the WOMEX Top Label Award logo on ads, in brochures, on CDs – wherever they'd like to demonstrate their accomplishment:
2. Real World (UK) - Dub Colossus: In a Town Called Addis
- Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara: Tell No Lies
- Daby Toure & Skip McDonald: Call My Name
3. Cumbancha (USA) - Chiwoniso: Rebel Woman
- Novalima: Coba Coba
- The Idan Raichel Project: Within My Walls
4. World Circuit (UK) - Oumou Sangare: Seya
- Tony Allen: Secret Agent
5. Six Degrees (USA) - Issa Bagayogo: Mali Koura
- Vieux Farka Touré: Fondo
6. Lusafrica (France) - Lura: Eclipse
- Cesária Évora: Radio Mindelo
7. Sterns (UK) - Franco & Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic
- Ba Cissoko: Seno
8. World Music Network (UK) - Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival
- Hanggai: Introducing Hanggai
9. Essay Recordings (Germany) - Rotfront: Emigrantski Raggamuffin
- Boom Pam: Puerto Rican Nights
10. Galileo (Spain) - Mara Aranda & Solatge: Deria
- La Banda del Pepo: Tanto Por Hacer
11. World Village (USA) 12. World Connection (The Netherlands) 13. Asphalt Tango Records (Germany) 14. Jaro Medien (Germany) 15. Naïve (France) 16. Indies Scope Records (Czech Republic) 17. Piranha Musik & IT (Germany) - Sister Fa: Sarabah: Tales from the Flipside of Paradise
18. Cooking Vinyl (UK) - Dr. John & The Lower 911: City that Care Forgot
19. Palm Pictures (UK) 20. Finisterre (Italy)
Top World Music Majors
1. Universal - Rokia Traoré: Tchamantche
2. EMI - Lila Downs: Shake Away/Ojo de Culebra
3. Sony - Buraka Sound Systema: Black Diamond
4. Warner - Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali (Because, France)
Top-20 World Music CDs of the Year
1. Oumou Sangare: Seya (World Circuit, UK)
2. Staff Benda Bilili: Très Très Fort (Crammed Discs, Belgium)
3. Chiwoniso: Rebel Woman (Cumbancha, USA)
4. Issa Bagayogo: Mali Koura (Six Degrees, USA)
5. Novalima: Coba Coba (Cumbancha, USA)
6. Lila Downs: Shake Away/Ojo de Culebra (EMI)
7. Dub Colossus: In a Town Called Addis (Real World, UK)
8. Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali (Warner/Because, France)
9. Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara: Tell No Lies (Real World, UK)
10. DuOud: Ping Kong (Marabi, France)
11. Kal: Radio Romanista (Asphalt Tango, Germany)
12. Franco & Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic (Sterns, UK)
13. Mara Aranda & Solatge: Deria (Galileo MC, Spain/Germany)
14. Baaba Maal: Television (Palm Pictures, UK)
15. Hector Zazou & Swara: In the House of Mirrors (Crammed Discs, Belgium)
16. Titi Robin: Kali Sultana (Naïve, France)
17. Dissidenten & Jil Jilala: Tanger Sessions (Exil, Germany)
18. Deolinda: Canção ao Lado (World Connection, The Netherlands)
19. Rokia Traoré: Tchamantche (Universal)
20. Lura: Eclipse (Lusafrica, France)
Congratulations everyone!
Created as a joint project with the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE), the selection for the WOMEX Top Label Award is made using the charts of 47 radio broadcasters from 24 countries.
The rules: Since we are awarding chart success in creative production, we are counting the work of A&R teams from individual companies. Two or more labels in the same overall company under one direction are counted together. Different, autonomous A&R teams from different company locations are counted separately. In this way, Crammed Discs and their sublabel Ziriguiboom are counted as one. And the World Music Network (The Rough Guides) and Riverboat are counted as one, since all releases are created by the same team. But Virgin and EMI, Universal and Wrasse, though the same overall parent or marketing company, are counted separately, since they function as different companies with different A&R teams. Finally if a given CD is simultaneously released by two different labels, it is credited to the label that has it in the greater number of territories. The eligible period is 10/2008 through 9/2009.
Special thanks to Johannes Theurer, World Music Charts Europe, for compiling the list.
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