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Charts and Lists

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AMAZON.CO.UK FOLK/ROOTS/WORLD 30

April non-budget price CD sales from Amazon.co.uk.
  1. THE CHIEFTAINS Voice Of Ages (Blackrock)
  2. THEA GILMORE/ SANDY DENNY Don’t Stop Singing (Island)
  3. SETH LAKEMAN Tales From The Barrelhouse (Honour Oak)
  4. CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
  5. AMADOU & MARIAM Folila (Because)
  6. BOB DYLAN The Minneapolis Party Tape (Bob Dylan Archive)
  7. VARIOUS ARTISTS BBC Folk Awards 2012 (Proper)
  8. CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch)
  9. GILLIAN WELCH The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony)
  10. BOB DYLAN Carnegie Chapter Hall 1961 (Bob Dylan Archive)
  11. JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND Ragged Kingdom (Topic)
  12. FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fatou (World Circuit)
  13. JIM MORAY Skulk (NIAG)
  14. VARIOUS ARTISTS Cumbia Cumbia 1 & 2 (World Circuit)
  15. ANAÏS MITCHELL Young Man In America (Wilderland)
  16. BOB DYLAN Bonnie Beecher’s Apartment (Nova)
  17. SEASICK STEVE Walkin’ Man: Best Of (Rhino)
  18. BELLOWHEAD Hedonism (Navigator)
  19. CEU Caravana Sereia Bloom (Six Degrees)
  20. THE UNTHANKS Last (Rabble Rouser)
  21. CHRISTY MOORE Folk Tale (Sony)
  22. BOB DYLAN Live In New York: Gaslight Café (Nova)
  23. VARIOUS ARTISTS Songlines Music Awards (Songlines)
  24. ALY BAIN & JERRY DOUGLAS Transatlantic Sessions Series 5/1 (Whirlie)
  25. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit)
  26. HANNAH JAMES & SAM SWEENEY State And Ancientry (Rootbeat)
  27. RY COODER Pull Up Some Dust And… (Nonesuch)
  28. ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Traveller (Deutsche Grammophon)
  29. LE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU The Bariba Sound (Analog Africa)
  30. ALI FARKA TOURÉ & TOUMANI DIABATÉ Ali & Toumani (World Circuit)

10 YEARS AGO

National chart from fRoots, June 2002, from Virgin Retail’s national chain computer.
  1. ALBARN, BOCOUM, DIABATE & CO Mali Music (Honest Jon’s)
  2. VARIOUS ARTISTS O Brother Where Art Thou? (Mercury)
  3. SALIF KEITA Moffou (Universal)
  4. SUSANA BACA Espiritu Vivo (Luaka Bop)
  5. THE CHIEFTAINS Wide World Over (RCA Victor)
  6. STEVE EARLE Sidetracks (Epic)
  7. THE BE GOOD TANYAS Blue Horse (Nettwerk)
  8. MANU CHAO Proxima Estacion Esperanza (Virgin)
  9. VARIOUS ARTISTS Lonesome Valley (Manteca)
  10. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit)
  11. ANGELIQUE KIDJO Black Ivory Soul (Sony)
  12. VARIOUS ARTISTS Salsa Timba (Manteca)
  13. THE ARLENES Stuck On You (Loose)
  14. VARIOUS ARTISTS Africanesque (React)
  15. BILLY BRAGG & THE BLOKES England Half English (Cooking Vinyl)
  16. MIRIAM MAKEBA The Definitive Collection (Wrasse)
  17. 17 SOUAD MASSI Raoui (Wrasse)
  18. CARA DILLON Cara Dillon (Rough Trade)
  19. VARIOUS ARTISTS The Very Best Of Africa (Nascente)
  20. KHALED Best Of The Early Years (Nascente)

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WORLD MUSIC EUROPEAN AIRPLAY 20

April’s most played world music albums, compiled from returns from radio DJs all over Europe World Music Charts Europe
  1. VÄRTTINÄ Utu (Westpark)
  2. VARIOUS ARTISTS Cumbia Cumbia 1 & 2 (World Circuit)
  3. NANCY VIEIRA No Ama (Lusafrica)
  4. VUSI MAHLASELA Say Africa (Wrasse)
  5. BATIDA Batida (Soundway)
  6. ANGELIQUE KIDJO Spirit Rising (Wrasse)
  7. VINICIO CAPOSSELA Marinai, Profeti E Balene (Ponderosa)
  8. CEU Caravana Sereia Bloom (Six Degrees)
  9. CATCH-POP STRING-STRONG Catch-Pop String-Strong (Collegno)
  10. LARA BELLO Primero Amarillo Despues Malva (Bello)
  11. PETRAKIS, LOPEZ, CHEMIRANI Mavra Froudia (Musiepoca)
  12. ILGI Tur Saulite Perties Gaja (Upe)
  13. ROBERTO FONSECA Yo (Jazz Village)
  14. DONA ROSA Sou Luz (Jaro)
  15. LOGA RAMIN TORKIAN Mehraab (Six Degrees)
  16. THE FUNKEES Dancing Time (Soundway)
  17. BONGA Hora Kota (Lusafrica)
  18. VARIOUS ARTISTS World Routes On The Road (Nascente)
  19. ALKINOOS IOANNIDIS Local Stranger (Wrasse)
  20. ENZO AVITABILE Black Tarantula (CNI)
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RED LICK BLUES, R&B & COUNTRY 10

April best-sellers at Red Lick Records: P.O. Box 55, Cardiff CF11 1JT.
  1. VARIOUS ARTISTS Nobody Wins: Stax South’n Soul (Kent)
  2. GID TANNER & THE SKILLET LICKERS Old Timey’s Favourite Band (JSP)
  3. VARIOUS ARTISTS The Willie Dixon Story (Proper)
  4. IKE TURNER Studio Productions 1963-65 (Ace)
  5. JUNIOR PARKER Ride With Me Baby (Fantastic Voyage)
  6. BONNIE RAITT Slipstream (Alligator)
  7. ERIC BIBB Deeper In The Well (Dixie Frog)
  8. BILLY BOY ARNOLD Sings Big Bill Broonzy (Electro-Fi)
  9. ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND A&R Studios 1971 (Left Field Media)
  10. SHEILA GEE Have You Ever Had Blues (Video Uptown)

Each issue of fRoots carries a wider list of charts from dealers and radio DJs.

 

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