1. Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble – Sing Me Home (Sony Masterworks)
2. The Wailers – The Wailing Wailers (Studio One/Yep Roc)
3. Ziggy Marley – Ziggy Marley (Tuff Gong)
4. Various – Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz (World Music Network)
5. Breabach – Astar (Breabach)
6. Alma Afrobeat Ensemble – It’s Time (Slow Walk Music)
7. Buyepongo – Todo Mundo (Buyepongo)
8. Fela Ransome Kuti & Koola Lobitos – Highlife-Jazz and Afro Soul (Knitting Factory)
9. Eliades Ochoa – Guajira + Mas Guajira (Tumi)
10. Ebo Taylor – Twer Nyame & My Love and Music (Mr. Bongo)
11. Djelimady Tounkara – Djely Blues (Label Bleu)
12. Amjad Ali Khan/Rahim Alhaj – Infinite Hope (UR Music)
13. Jean-Luc Thomas/Ravichandra Kulur – Magic Flutes (Hirustica)
14. Cocek! Brass Band – Second Round (Cocek! Brass Band)
15. Michael Doucet & Tom Rigney – Cajun Fandango (Parhelion)
16. Various – Rough Guide to South African Jazz (World Music Network)
17. Imarhan – Imarhan (City Slang)
18. Santana – Santana IV (Thirty Tigers)
19. Stefano Salwetti & Banda Ikona – Sound City (Finis Terra)
20. Natty Nation – Divine Spark (iNatty)
21. Bach – Anian (RealWorld)
22. M.A.K.U. Soundsystem – Mezcla (Glitterbeat)
23. Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights – Quelbe! (Smithsonian Folkways)
24. Pare – Hausjarvi Beat (Zebo)
25. Snarky Puppy – Culcha Vulcha (Ground Up)
26. Aziza Brahim - Abbar El Hamada (Glitterbeat)
27. Sociedade Recreative - Sociedade Recreative (Veev)
28. Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil – Dois Amigos (Nonesuch)
29. Renato Braz – Saudade (Living Music)
30. Beautiful Nubia & the Roots Renaissance Band – Taabaku (Eni Obanke)
31. Ze Boiade – Ze Que Casa (La Roda)
32. Sampo Lassila Narinnka – In Strange Lands (Narinkaattori)
33. The Gloaming – 2 (Brassland)
34. Faith I Branko – Gypsy Lover (Riverboat)
35. Leyla McCalla – A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village)
36. Anoushka Shankar – Land of Gold (Deutsche Grammophon)
37. Various – Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia (World Music Network)
38. Bombino – Azel (Partisan)
39. Lakou Mizik – Wa Di You (Cumbancha)
40. La Banda Morisca – Algarabya (Fol Musica)