1 Baaba Maal – The Traveller – Marathon Artists / Palm Recordings (-
)
2 Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express – Junun – Nonesuch Records (8)
3 Čači Vorba – Šatrika – Oriente Musik (11)
4 Lura – Herança – Lusafrica (1
)
5 Sidestepper – Supenatural Love – Real World Records (-)
6 Dizu Plaatjies and Friends – Ubuntu-The Common String – Mountain Records (7)
7 Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin – Touristes – Six Degrees Records (3)
8 Bixiga 70 – III – Glitterbeat Records (9)
9 L’Attirail – La Route Interieure – Les Chantiers Sonores (4)
10 Kreiz Breizh Akademi – 5ed Round – Innacor (6)
11 Sam Lee & Friends – The Fade in Time – The Nest Collective (2)
12 Las Hermanas Caronni – Navega Mundos – Les Grands Fleuves (-)
13 Bareto – Impredecible – World Village (-)
14 Oratnitza – Folktron – Fusion Embassy (12)
15 Michael Messer’s Mitra – Call of the Blues – Knife Edge Records (-)
16 Dimitris Mystakidis – Esperanto – Fishbowl (-)
17 Kandia Kouyaté – Renascence – Sterns Music (5)
18 Sahra Halgan Trio – Faransiskiyo Somalilan – Buda Musique (13)
19 Bayarbaatar Davaasuren – The Art of Mongolian Khöömii (Throat Singing) – ARC Music (-)
20 Zulya and the Children of the Underground – On Love and Science – Zulya and the Children of the Underground (-)
Members of the TWMC panel (February 2016 vote): Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T.S. Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Ian Anderson (GB), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Dubi Lenz (IL), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), João Flávio Lima (BR), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE)
(Position in chart Artist Album Title Label/Publisher (last month’s position in chart =)