AMAZON.CO.UK FOLK/ ROOTS/ WORLD 30

1. RICHARD THOMPSON Still

2. SONGHOY BLUES Music In Exile

3. SIMPSON CUTTING KERR Murmurs

4. THE UNTHANKS Mount The Air

5. MBONGWANA STAR From Kinshasa

7. FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS Proper Job

8. PEATBOG FAERIES Blackhouse

9. BELLOWHEAD Revival

10. KATHRYN WILLIAMS Hypoxia

11. JACKIE OATES The Spyglass & The Herringbone (ECC) 12. LAU The Bell That Never Rings

13. OLIVIA CHANEY The Longest River

14. BELLOWHEAD Hedonism

15. RHIANNON GIDDENS Tomorrow Is My Turn

16. THIS IS THE KIT Bashed Out

17. SOUAD MASSI El Mutakallimun

18. EMILY PORTMAN Coracle

(Reveal) (Nonesuch) (Navigator) (Nonesuch) (Brassland) (Wrasse) (Furrow)

19. FATOUMATA DIAWARA & ROBERTO FONSECA At Home – Live In Marciac (Jazz Village)

20. ELIZA CARTHY & TIM ERIKSEN Bottle

21. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Lost And Found

23. CHEIKH LÔ Balbalou

(Hem Hem/Navigator) (World Circuit)

22. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit)

(Chapter Two/ Wagram)

24. TOM PAXTON Redemption Road

25. LUDOVICO EINAUDI & VARIOUS Taranta Project

26. FAIRPORT CONVENTION Myths & Heroes

28. XAOS Xaos

29. BELLOWHEAD Broadside

30. SAM LEE The Fade In Time (Nest Collective)

June’s non-budget price CD sales from Amazon.co.uk

27. KESTON COBBLERS CLUB Wildfire

(Pax) (Ponderosa) (Matty Grooves) (Tricolour) (Pomegranate/ IRL) (Navigator) (Proper) (Transgressive) (Topic) (Rabble Rouser) (World Circuit)

6. VARIOUS ARTISTS BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 (Proper)

(Red UK) (Peatbog) (Island) (One Little Indian)

WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE TOP 20

1. MBONGWANA STAR From Kinshasa

2. BLICK BASSY Akö

4. SOUAD MASSI El Mutakallimun

5. SOAPKILLS The Best Of Soapkills

6. ELIDA ALMEIDA Ora Doci Ora Margos

7. MARTIN LUBEROV’S JAZZTA PRASTA Impressions

()Crammed) (Lusafrica) (Unit)

8. CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO Quaranta 40

10. BALOGH KALMAN & LUCACS MIKLOS Cimbalomduo

11. PEKKO KÄPPI & K:H:H:L Sanguis Meus, Mama!

12. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Lost And Found

14. SECKOU KEITA 22 Strings

15. SACRI CUORI Delone

16. BUKAHARA Strange Delight

17. MOH! KOUYATÉ Loundo (Un Jour)

18. NIYAZ The Fourth Light 19. ANA ALCAIDE

20. MONOSWEZI Monoswezi Yanga

Gotrasawala Ensemble (Tales Of Pangea) (Riverboat)

June’s most played world music albums, compiled from returns from radio DJs all over Europe. © giftmusic 2015

DIGELIUS MUSIC HELSINKI 10

1. JPP Taivaankansi

2. ESKO JÄRVELÄ EPIC MALE BAND Rye Groove

3. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Lost And Found

5. RÖNSY Juureilevia Tarinoita

6. SINIKKA LANGELAND The Half-finished Heaven

7. PEKKO KÄPPI & K:H:H:L Sanguis Meus, Mama!

8. TANGO-ORKESTERI UNTO Yön Tummat Siivet

10 EMILIA LAJUNEN Turkoosi Polkupyörä

4. ERIK HOKKANEN & LUMISUDET Cool Things

(JPP) (EMB) (World Circuit) (Happy Wolf) (Aania) (ECM) (GAEA) (ARC)

9. BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ & NGONI BA Ba Power

(Glitterbeat) (Texicalli)

Current folk & roots bestsellers at Digelius Music, Helsinki, Finland. www.digelius.com

(Six Degrees) (Ponderosa)

9. STELIOS PETRAKIS QUARTET Avgi – Live In Heraklion (Molpe Music)

(Folk Europa) (GAEA)

(World Circuit)

13. GERMAN DIAZ Metodo Cardiofonico (Prods Efimeras)

(ARC/ Mwldan) (Glitterbeat) (Bukahara) (Foli Son)

3. BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ & NGONI BA Ba Power

(World Circuit) (No Format) (Glitterbeat) (Wrasse)

20 YEARS AGO

1. DEEP FOREST Bohême

2. BILL WHELAN Riverdance

3. JANIS IAN Revenge

4. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Stones In The Road

5. ALTAN The First 10 Years

6. RY COODER Music By Ry Cooder

7. ROBERT CRAY Some Rainy Morning

8. VARIOUS ARTISTS Sacred Spirit

9. THE CHIEFTAINS Long Black Veil

10 HANK WILLIAMS Alone & Forsaken

(Green Linnet) (Warners) (Mercury) (Virgin) (RCA)

11. SANDY DENNY/ TREVOR LUCAS Attic Tracks

(Polygram) (Raven)

12. KATE RUSBY & KATHRYN ROBERTS Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts (Pure)

13. U SRINIVAS & MICHAEL BROOK Dream

14. ALISON KRAUSS

15. VARIOUS ARTISTS A Woman’s Heart Vol 2

16. JOHN LEE HOOKER Chill Out

17. TED HAWKINS

18. THE DUBLINERS Milestones

20. PAPA WEMBA Emotion

19. CHRIS SMITHER Up On The Lowdown

The Kershaw Sessions (Strange Roots) (Transatlantic) (Hightone)

(Real World))

June 1995 sales from Virgin Retail’s national chain computer

WORLD MUSIC NETWORK VIDEO 10

1. LILA DOWNES feat JUANES La Patria Madrina

2. JUNGLE BY NIGHT El Miraglo

3. DELE SOSIMI Na My Turn

4. ELECTRO BAMAKO N’tara Denni Soro

5. DENGUE FEVER Tokay (Live)

6. ISSAC DELGADO, GENTE DE ZONA & DESCEMER BUENO Bailando

7. KASAI ALLSTARS Thus Spoke The Ancestors (Live)

8. KASSE MADY DIABATE Simbo (Live)

9. CATRIN FINCH & SECKOU KEITA Live At Ethno Port Poznan Festival

10. LAKHA MADOU PROJECT The Story Of Malkauns

Watch all the videos in July’s chart (and earlier) at www.worldmusic.net/charts/video

Now That I’ve Found You (Rounder) (Grapevine)

(Pointblank/Virgin) (Real World)

(Columbia) (Warners)

(Grapevine) (Columbia)

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