WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE * This Year's Top-5 Records

As a regular feature, each month we usually present the top-5 results of the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE), a monthly poll taken of world music radio programmers in twenty-three European countries.

Now - at the end of the year - we present you 2008's top-5 of 913 nominated records compiled by Johannes Theurer on behalf of the Worldmusic Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

1 3MA - Projet 3MA; Rajery/Ballake Sissoko/Driss El Maloumi -
Mali/Morocco/Madagascar - Contre-Jour

2 800 - Mercan Dede - Turkey/Canada - Doublemoon

3 Umalali - The Garifuna Women's Project - Belize/Guatemala - Cumbancha

4 Tchamantche - Rokia Traore - Mali - Universal

5 Mali Koura - Issa Bagayogo - Mali - Six Degrees

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• article submitted by: Anna Pötzsch, piranha womex AG (expo)

Links

• WMCE 2008
• WMCE - Monthly Charts