1 Rokia Traoré – Né So – Nonesuch Records (-
)
2 Baaba Maal – The Traveller – Marathon Artists / Palm Recordings (1
)
3 Sidestepper – Supernatural Love – Real World Records (5)
4 Aziza Brahim – Abbar el Hamada – Glitterbeat Records (-)
5 Las Hermanas Caronni – Navega Mundos – Les Grands Fleuves (12)
6 Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express – Junun – Nonesuch Records (2)
7 Bixiga 70 – III – Glitterbeat Records (8)
8 Divanhana – Zukva – ARC Music (-)
9 Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin – Touristes – Six Degrees Records (7)
10 Zulya and the Children of the Underground – On Love and Science – Zulya and the Children of the Underground (20)
11 Tęgie Chłopy – Dansing – Muzyka Odnaleziona (-)
12 Lura – Herança – Lusafrica (4)
13 Michael Messer’s Mitra – Call of the Blues – Knife Edge Records (15)
14 The Gloaming – 2 – Real World Records (-)
15 Dizu Plaatjies and Friends – Ubuntu-The Common String – Mountain Records (6)
16 Sam Lee & Friends – The Fade in Time – The Nest Collective (11)
17 Élage Diouf – Melokáane – Pump Up the World (-)
18 Bareto – Impredecible – World Village (13)
19 Čači Vorba – Šatrika – Oriente Musik (3)
20 Konono Nº1 meets Batida – Konono Nº1 meets Batida – Crammed Discs (-)
Members of the TWMC panel (March 2016 vote): Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (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), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), Stani Goma (CG/AU), François Bensignor (FR), Sergey Maiboroda (KZ).
(Position in chart Artist Album Title Label/Publisher (last month’s position in chart =)