Top European Folk Music Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
3230
 Enrico Caruso O sole mio Canzone napoletana 1916
2
3654
 Bob Dylan Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Brass Band Blues Rock 1966
3
3844
 Anne Briggs Blackwater Side English Folk Music 1971
4
4007
 The Pogues Dirty Old Town Celtic Folk Music Celtic Rock 1985
5
4157
 Camarón La leyenda del tiempo Flamenco Nuevo Jazz-Rock 1979
6
4202
 Gipsy Kings Bamboleo Rumba Flamenca Rumba Catalana 1988
7
5556
 Bert Jansch Needle of Death Folk Baroque Singer/Songwriter 1965
8
5714
 Tom Waits In the Neighborhood Brass Band Singer/Songwriter 1983
9
6336
 Martin Carthy Scarborough Fair Folk Baroque 1965
10
6503
 Camarón de la Isla Soy gitano Flamenco Nuevo 1989
11
6699
 Concha Piquer Tatuaje Copla 1941
12
6885
 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man Fanfare Symphonic Prog 1977
13
6986
 Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Kalimankou denkou Bulgarian Folk Music Polyphonic Chant 1975
14
7119
 Mason Williams Classical Gas Folk Baroque Baroque Pop 1968
15
7172
 Nick Drake Black Eyed Dog Folk Baroque Singer/Songwriter 1986
16
7299
 Pawlo Humeniuk Tanec Pid Werbamy/Dance Under the Willows Ukranian Folk Music 1926
17
7635
 Glahe Musette Orchestra Beer Barrel-Polka Polka 1939
18
7887
 Frank Yankovic Orchestra Just Because Polka Polka 1948
19
7958
 Taraf de Haidouks Balada conducatorolui L?ut?reasc? 1991
20
8016
 Loreena McKennitt The Mummers' Dance Celtic Folk Music Celtic New Age, Contemporary Folk 1997
21
8608
 Fanfare Ciocărlia lag bari Balkan Brass Band 2001
22
9270
 Michael Coleman The Boys of the Lough Irish Folk Music 1922
23
9271
 Michael Coleman The Humours of Ennistymon Irish Folk Music 1922
24
9347
 Pata Negra Camarón Flamenco Nuevo 1987
25
9904
 Veneno Los Delincuentes Rumba Flamenca Andalusian Rock 1977
26
9908
 Andrés Calamaro Estadio Azteca Flamenco Jazz Acoustic Rock, Singer/Songwriter 2004

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Ojos De Brujo Tiempo de soleá Rumba Flamenca Rumba Catalana 2002
Camarón Volando voy Flamenco Nuevo, Rumba Flamenca 1979
Paco de Lucía Entre dos aguas Flamenco Nuevo, Rumba Flamenca 1973
Pata Negra Los mánagers Flamenco Nuevo Andalusian Rock 1981
Sœur Sourire [The Singing Nun] Dominique French Folk Music, Walloon Folk Music Folk Pop, French Pop 1961
The Watersons John Barleycorn English Folk Music A cappella 1965
Taraf de Haidouks A La Turk L?ut?reasc? 2001
Camarón de la Isla Como el agua Flamenco Nuevo 1981
Ray Heredia Alegría de vivir Flamenco Nuevo 1991
Pata Negra Pasa la vida Flamenco Nuevo 1986
Gipsy Kings Djobi, Djoba Rumba Flamenca Rumba Catalana 1982
Kiko Veneno Echo de menos Rumba Flamenca 1992
The Pentangle Light Flight Folk Baroque British Folk Rock, Folk Pop 1969
Jefferson Airplane Embryonic Journey Folk Baroque 1967