This year, discover a whole world of new musical possibilities. Fresh for 2026: Dunklebunt dance mix, more Indole from Alex Cuba, Grammy-nom Justin Gray, and some Balkan bangers! What music radio sounds like.

Simply the best. This hour, we present choice cuts from our favorite global albums of 2025, as culled from our monthly top 30 charts. Get our calendar by subscribing to our weekly e-blast at worldbeatinternational.com and play along! Happy New Year from World Beat Canada Radio!

Whether you’re circling the lot or parking it on the couch, spend an hour of the holidays with the best music in the world. We welcome latecomers with fresh spins to round out 2025 from Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions, more new Balkin Taskim from Bucharest, the Persian Kamauncheh spike fiddle plugged in by Merhnam Rastergari and Altin Gun tease 2026 with a brand new single. Park it here. World Beat Canada Radio!

Housekeeping this hour so the music library is spick and span for the holidays. We’ve uncovered some hidden gems to debut plus fresh tracks from Budapest’s Balkan Taksim, dub en francais from Luiza & Bleu Soliel, Zanna the voice of Rio’s Metro, a gorg duet from Alex Cuba with Cyrille Aimee and the sublime from Peppermoth’s latest, Albedo. A clean sweep in 60 minutes. Join us!

The evolving, ever-changing world of music stands to be counted. We skim off the top of our monthy Top 30 chart, including new spins from Afro-Colombians Nuevos Rios, Haitian-Canadian Wesli and a breath of fresh air from Peppermoth, Andrew McPherson’s sublime new album of ambient, Albedo! Dive in! It’s what the world is coming to, World Beat Canada Radio.

When November gives you a dark and stormy night at 12 noon, do what Senor Coconut does and give it a merengue beat! That’s on deck this hour along with a remix from Galician sound designer, Baiuca, brand new Polyrhythmics, Tunisian rhythms from Didon, Haitian kongo from Wesli and rogue Latin riddims from NYC experimentalists Zemog El Gallo. Your world in music from A to Z this hour from World beat Canada!

The Surfrajettes turn up the reverb and drop the puck on The True North’s second anthem, Hockey Night In Canada! Plus, new Afro-Colombian from Nuevos Rios, new Brazilian-Caribbean from Iuna Falcao and a Ghanian song of empowerment for girls, ”No Orgasm In Heaven”. Ponder life’s little mysteries with World Beat Canada!

Happy 25th birthday to the iPod! It inspired this weekly hour of contemporary global music, and it’s probably hiding in the back of your junk drawer. You’ll want to download this show which is loaded with new spins from distant lands, like Yalla Miku’s Eritrean/Swiss post-punk, Venezuelan rhythms updated by Venezonix, more Mariachi El Bronx and a debut from Alex Cuba’s Indole! Join us on the air and on the pod.

Sending our radio signal into space, a cosmic ambassador of human diversity and culture. This hour, new music from Pernambuco in North Eastern Brazil, rockin’ Kurdish spike fiddle from Tehran, another debut from Tunisian Canadian project, Didon, Baltic ska from Moldova and Welsh meets Latin from Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18. Lock onto our signal. World Beat Canada Radio!

As the world unravels around us, we hold tight to the ties that bind, music in particular; healing dub reggae for Jamaica from Pachyman and SunDub Meets Scientist, a sibling reunion from Sotomayor, Tunisia meets electronics by Didon, even some care-free disco from Estonians RETI, and back to Bollywood with Ex Generation. Reconnect with your world on World Beat Canada Radio.

You can’t know the players without a program. We present so much new music, you get a playlist every week and a chart each month to catch up! Sign up at worldbeatinternational.com. This hour it’s the best of the best, the top of the global pops. Ten essential tracks, and more debuts just for you. Join us for the latest sounds around. World Beat Canada Radio is on the air and on the pod.

Welcome to a world without A​-​I artists and algorithmic playlists. Indulge in new music magic each hour, in a community as diverse as the planet itself. Fresh tracks from Geneva’s Yalla Miku, Kurdish spike fiddle from Mehnram Rastegari, mbalax from innovator Cheikh Lo and Elisapie’s remix of Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams in Inuktitut. This is World Beat Canada!

World Beat Canada welcomes Gen Zs who’ve abandoned algorithms and AI, turning to campus and community radio in greater numbers for hand-curated new music. We deliver this hour with fresh spins from Da Lata, Manika Kaur remixed, global soul from Qais Essar & Sonny Singh + Antibalas. And, a callback to 1995 with Karnak. This stuff never gets old!

It’s our Top 10 with a twist, including some new tracks from the albums that brought us our favorite tunes of the month. Plus, some new finds from Mauritanian, Noura Mint Seymali, Adham Shaikh, Afrodream and Venezonix. Breaking new beats for today’s world, join us this week for World Beat Canada.

Be among the very first to hear new Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra (at The Pearl in Vancouver December 12th). In fact, everything is new this hour including a Sei remix from TEKE::TEKE, a Furmiga Dub remix of Jacuma, gorge new Andalucian from Lontras, and to honour The Who, The Overture from Tommy - A Bluegrass Opry. The Song Is Over but we’re just getting started on World Beat Canada!

Celebrating seasonal shifts and departed friends to start. Abebayehosh is a song Ethiopian girls sing to mark the autumn and their New Year. L’amour a la Folie (Love Is Mad) the final album by Amadou & Mariam drops shortly. We debut the title track. You’ll also hear A Sonova remix, Yugoslav dub, nocturnal Brazilian soul and so much more. It’s World Beat Canada Radio!

We help Bongo Joe celebrate 10 years of uncovering the unconventional with two outside tracks from their new compilation. Plus, a debut from the forthcoming final release by Amadou & Mariam, more magic from Arc de Soliel (Commodore, Vancouver Sept.17) and ginchy Mexican bachelor pad music from Matorralman. Yeah, baby! It’s World Beat Canada.

Buckle up, buttercup! We take the road less travelled this hour with stops in Eretria, Turkmenistan, Japan and Finland. Plus, new music from BC sound designer Adham Shaikh, a debut from Making Movies, and more Dolby Atmos from Jordan Gray. It’s the twists and turns that make this ride on the global side. World Beat Canada Radio!

Pickin’ and grinnin’ as we present the Top 10 tracks from our monthly World Beat chart! Count them down with us and then find some headphones, or stick your ears between the speakers for an immersive example of Dolby Atmos 360 degree sound from Canadian Justin Gray, and we Come Back To Joy with ear candy on the way out from Sonova. Keeping time with the beat of the world!

Shima balances Japanese tradition and futurism in the tale of a magic mushroom and ... we’re tripping through the next hour, with Karma from Eljuri, on the Road To Nowhere in a Talking Heads tribute, challenging the Arctic with Bicep and a ditty about Delilah by Making Movies (Aug.24 @ The Rickshaw). Get your global on!