The Russian World Music Chart (RWMC), Russia’s first world music chart, has revealed the top 20 Russian world music albums of 2021. A total of 40 albums from 15 labels participated in the chart in the genres of world, ethnic and folk music, released in 2021, including 12 albums of traditional music.
The new world music chart was launched in October 2021 by Daryana Antipova and Irina Brykova. The goal of the RWMC is to attract the attention of the world music community to the new folk music of multinational Russia, as well as popularizing and assisting in the promotion of unique musicians from remote corners of Russia in the Russian Federation and abroad. “With this project we want to celebrate the independent recording world, the music label business, and the media that brings the artists to the community.”
The international jury, which includes 16 representatives from Australia, Norway, the USA, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Russia, will select and announce the 20 best albums by the end of each year. “Among them there are radio journalists, authors of music columns in the best publications of the world devoted to folk music. We invite to the jury only those experts who really put in their rotation or write about Russian artists on a regular basis. For the participants in the chart, this is a real chance to sound to the whole world!”
The top album is ” Klyukva” (Cranberry) by Staritsa, an electro-folk band from southwestern Russia. Staritsa recreates traditional music with modern arrangements and electronica. The group was founded in the summer of 2019 by Natalia and Oleg Soldatkin.
Top-20 Russian world music albums of 2021:
1) Staritsa – Klyukva – CPL-music
2) Vedan Kolod – Gorodische – CPL-music
3) Khöömei Beat – Changys Baglaash – ARC Music
4) Namgar – Nayan Navaa – ARC music
5) Yat-Kha – We will never die – The Lollipoppe Shoppe
6) Shoodja-Choodja – Shooldyrak – CPL-music
7) Uutai – Dope – Mars records
8) Opycham – Where to find peace of mind – Sketis music
9) Tatyana Molchanova – Songs for Lidia Ruslanova. Part 1 – Self-released
10) Khara – Mandragora – Sketis music
11) Kazachya sprava – The sun will give the morrow birth – Izba records
12) Gudimir & Shulyakovskiy — Russian album — Gudimir
13) Smorodina Reka – Foreshadowing – Self-released
14) Gralitsa – Little Mosquitoes Are Sleeping This Night – Self-released
15) Alexey Khovalyg – Reincarnation – Self-released
16) Mila Kikina – Verbochka – Self-released
17) Balkhar Ensemble – Lakku Balai: Songs of Lak People, Dagestan / Russia – Antonovka Records
18) Gudba Vadzana – Folk Trip – Self-released
19) The Acoustic Boots – Kare – Pravda Music
20) Zakaria – Berge – GvinRecords
More information at: worldmusicchart.ru
Author: World Music Central News Room
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What for CHARTS? I dont see- kino, ariya, nau p, mashina vremeni, ddt, alisa, linda, tatu, korrozia, metalla, diskoteka avariya, gr.ob., tehnologiya, sektor gaza, & great russ/rokz/muzlo artistz!
The artists you are referring to play rock, pop and other genres. The chart we included is for world music: Russian music with traditional music roots.