Worldwide Winners

Radio and club DJ Gilles Peterson every three months or so does an "All Winners Special" in which he replays the previous few months' best new tracks --both singles/individual album tracks as well as whole albums-- he has either played out when DJing or played on his BBC Radio 1 show "Worldwide". At the end of the year, these winners, plus a few further favourites that may have been overlooked, get compiled into a longlist. Listeners of the show then get to vote this longlist down to a shortlist of ten "Worldwide Winners" in each section, via the Radio 1 website, which Gilles then plays over the last couple of editions of his radioshow at the end of the year. It has been compiled in various forms at the end of every year since 1998 to present, though the first few years did not involve any public vote.

In recent years, from 2004 onwards, this has been expanded into the "Worldwide Winners Awards" with an event held at a London club venue during the very end of December or beginning of January, with outside broadcast recording by Radio 1, edited highlights of which are broadcast on a further one or two editions of the radio show at the start of January. Also further sections were added, like "Best Clubnight", "Best Recordshop", "Best Compilation Album", and a special award called "The John Peel "'Play More Jazz'" Award" (a tribute to his Radio 1 colleague who died suddenly in 2004) given to an artist, often a newcomer, who has displayed special noteworthy work over the year.

Worldwide Winners

"(1999-2002 charts were on just one list: singles, individual album tracks and whole albums)"

1999

*1. Cinematic Orchestra – "Motion" [Album] (Ninja Tune)
*2. Mos Def – "Umi Says" (Rawkus Records)
*3. Nitin Sawhney – "Tides" (Outcaste UK)

2000

*1. Jill Scott – "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1" [Album] (Hidden Beach)
*2. St. Germain – "Rose Rouge" (Blue Note)

2001

*1. Zero 7 – "Simple Things" [Album] (Ultimate Dilemma)
*2. 4 Hero – "Les Fleurs" (Talkin' Loud/Mercury Records)
*3. Roots Manuva – "Run Come Save Me" [Album] (Big Dada)
*4. Herbert – "Bodily Functions" [Album] (Studio K7)
*5. Gotan Project – "La Revancha del Tango" [Album] (XL Records)

2002

*1. Cinematic Orchestra – "Everyday" [Album] (Ninja Tune)
*2. Jazzanova – "In Between" [Album] (JCR)
*3. Drumagick – "Easy Boom" (Sambaloco)
*4. Irfane – "Just A Little Lovin"' ("White Label")
*5. Raphael Saadiq (featuring Rosie Kaye) – "Skyy Can You Feel Me" (Universal)

"(2003-present, switched to separate lists: Tracks - singles, individual album tracks / Albums - whole albums)"

2003

Tracks Of The Year
*1. RSL – "Wesley Music" (Players)
*2. Cesaria Evora – "Angola (Carl Craig Remix)" (BMG France)
*3. Alison Crockett – "Like Rain" (Wah Wah 45s)
*4. Pharrell – "Frontin"' (Star Trak)
*5. The Rebirth – "This Journey In" (Kajmere)

Albums Of The Year
*1. Ty – "Upwards" (Big Dada)
*2. Outkast – "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" (Arista/BMG)
*3. Matthew Herbert Big Band – "Goodbye Swingtime" (Accidental)
*4. Madlib – "Shades Of Blue" (Blue Note)
*5. Erykah Badu – "Worldwide Underground" (Motown)

2004

Tracks Of The Year
*1. Bugz In The Attic – "Booty La La" (V2)
*2. Sa-Ra – "Glorious" (ABB)
*3. Recloose – "Dust" (Peacefrog Records)
*4. Sébastien Tellier – "La Ritournelle" (Source)
*5. Sleep Walker (featuring Pharoah Sanders) – "The Voyage" (Especial)

Albums Of The Year
*1. Plant Life – "The Return Of Jack Splash" (Counterflow/Gut)
*2. Troubleman – "Time Out Of Mind" (Far Out)
*3. Kanye West – "The College Dropout" (Roc-A-Fella)
*4. Jill Scott – "" (Hidden Beach)
*5. Nicola Conte – "New Directions" (Blue Note)

2005

Tracks Of The Year
*1. Amerie – "1 Thing" (Columbia/Sony BMG)
*2. Spacek – "Dollar" (Sound In Color)
*3. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions – "Waltz For Goddess" (RCA/Victor)
*4. Switch – "A Bit Patchy" (Dub Sided)
*5. Ben Westbeech – "So Good Today" (Brownswood Recordings)

Albums Of The Year
*1. Fat Freddy's Drop – "Based On A True Story" (Kartel)
*2. Common – "Be" (Geffen Records)
*3. Platinum Pied Pipers – "Triple P" (Ubiquity)
*4. Mark De Clive-Lowe – "Tides Arising" (ABB)
*5. Alice Russell – "My Favourite Letters" (Tru Thoughts)

2006

Tracks Of The Year
*1. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators – "Feeling Free" (Timmion)
*2. Bugz In The Attic – "Sounds Like" (V2/Nurture)
*3. Simbad (featuring Steelo) – "Soul Fever" (Raw Fusion)
*4. J Dilla (featuring Pharaohe Monch) – "Love" (BBE)
*5. Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy" (WEA)

Albums Of The Year
*1. Bonobo – "Days To Come" (Ninja Tune)
*2. J Dilla – "The Shining" (BBE)
*3. Bugz In The Attic – "Back In The Doghouse" (V2/Nurture)
*4. Paul Murphy – "The Trip" (Afro Art)
*5. Marc Mac – "" (BBE)

2007

Tracks Of The Year
*1. Benga and Coki – "Night" (Tempa)
*2. Tawiah – "Watch Out" (Brownswood Recordings)
*3. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – "100 Days, 100 Nights" (Daptone)
*4. Jose James – "Equinox" (Brownswood Recordings)
*5. United Legends (featuring Sleep Walker) – "Thank You" (Especial)

Albums Of The Year
*1. Theo Parrish – "Sound Sculptures (Vol. 1)" (Sound Signature)
*2. Little Dragon – "Little Dragon" (Peacefrog)
*3. Burial – "Untrue" (Hyperdub)
*4. The Cinematic Orchestra – "Ma Fleur" (Ninja Tune)
*5. Radiohead – "In Rainbows" (_Xurbia_Xendless/XL Recordings)

Worldwide Winners Awards

2004: Ceremony held at Cargo in Shoreditch, London on an "unknown date".

2005: Ceremony held at Koko in Camden, London on Monday 12 December 2007. [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article328391.ece Independent Online Edition: "Gilles Peterson: Hello world, this is London", published: 21 November 2005] ]

2007: Ceremony held at Cargo in Shoreditch, London on Saturday 5 January 2008. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/allwinners2008.shtml BBC Radio 1 website, "Gilles Peterson - All Winners 2008", accessed Friday 14 December 2007] ]

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