World & folk radio stations, live
World and folk radio brings Bollywood and Hindi film music, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, African and Celtic stations, and traditional music from around the globe. Skywave DX lists 25 world & folk stations from 12 countries (3 in the USA, 5 in the rest of Europe, 17 elsewhere), every stream test-played before it is listed; the most listened to right now are Mirchi Top 20, Fnf.Fm Hindi and Hits Of Lata Mangeshkar. Each one plays through the station’s own live stream, free and without an account.
Top in the USA
3 world & folk stations · most listened first- 1
SomaFM Suburbs of Goa California · 31/day - 2
Radio Paradise World/Etc Mix United States · 29/day - 3Radio Paradise World/Etc Mix California · 9/day
Top in Europe
5 world & folk stations · most listened first- 1
Extra FM Grad Zagreb, Croatia · 33/day - 2
Radio Banovina Sisačko-moslavačka županija, Croatia · 15/day - 3M🇷🇴Radio Manele FM Romania · 13/day
- 4
1.FM - Bombay Beats India Radio Switzerland · 12/day - 5
Cool Radio Belgrade, Serbia · 11/day
Around the world
17 world & folk stations · most listened first- 1
Mirchi Top 20 India · 196/day - 2FH🇮🇳Fnf.Fm Hindi India · 133/day
- 3HO🇮🇳Hits Of Lata Mangeshkar Gujarat, India · 112/day
- 4HO🇮🇳Hits Of Bollywood Gujarat, India · 107/day
- 5BR🇹🇷Baba Radyo Türkiye · 100/day
- 6AH🇹🇷Ankara Havalari Türkiye · 79/day
- 7RŞ🇹🇷Radyo Şiran Türkiye · 75/day
- 8
SumerFm Iraq Baghdad, Iraq · 66/day
- 9HO🇮🇳Hits Of Mohammed Rafi Gujarat, India · 52/day
- 10B2🇮🇳Bollywood 2010's India · 45/day
- 11
Sud FM Sen Radio Senegal · 45/day - 12RB🇮🇳Radio Retro Bollywood 90s India · 31/day
World & folk radio: questions
How many world & folk radio stations can I listen to here?
25 world & folk stations from 12 countries, 2 of them with their own station page. Every stream was test-played when the directory was last rebuilt, and stations whose streams stop working are dropped.
Which world & folk station is the most popular?
Mirchi Top 20 (India) is the most-listened world & folk station in the directory, with about 196 listener plays a day across apps using the Radio Browser directory. In the USA it is SomaFM Suburbs of Goa.
Is it free to listen to world & folk radio on Skywave DX?
Yes. Press the Listen button next to any station to hear its own live stream in your browser, on desktop or phone, with no account and no ads added. "Listen in the app" opens the full Skywave DX player filtered to world & folk stations, where you can save favourites and see what is playing.
Rankings are listener plays per day across apps that use the Radio Browser community directory. Streams last test-played on October 14, 2026.