First that come to mind:

Afrobeat/pop : great Xhosa rap/singing by moonshine sanelly (English tracks too)

Prog rock: magma creates their own language

Pop: Jay Chou has great tracks in Mandarin

Punk rock: exists in most local languages

Jazz: Avishai Cohen has tracks in ladino.

Electro song: Omar Souleyman has a very interesting background and tracks a nice, sung in Arabic.

Industrial : einsturzende neubauten sings mostly German.

Neu Deutsch Harte : Rammstein is the most known example.

Electroacoustic : Gedalia tazartes, includes vocals of diverse origins

MOVITS! - Fel Del Av Gården

Catalán
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wM5QK_G7WRo

Gaelic
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNRfUK6qv98

Japanese
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKw_Astidg

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_hBk2f01k

万能青年旅店 - 大石碎胸口
Apashe ft. Instasamka - Uebok (Gotta Run)

Luna - Diljit Dosanjh

Cafe Tacvba - Hola Adiós

Dude! I love mundian to bach ke!

But most of my "foreign" language music pleasures are less identifiable.

Like, there's a lot of zydeco that's in French that I love, but it's hard to find recordings of any kind, much less digital options.

And I can essentially endlessly listen to what's called throat singing, but have no idea what titles would be to recommend. Almost all that I have is Mongolian or tuvan, and didn't come from a CD.

Seu Jorge's full album of Bowie covers is so epic. Love it, and really adds to the Life Aquatic

Good news everyone!

https://youtu.be/FM3aJQzqV90

And if you don't speak English, let me know what you think:

https://youtu.be/O3gz3nnYv68

Basically anything by Ado. This one's probably my favorite.

Anything by Maximum the Hormone and Band-Maid to be honest, but I like "F" and "Different" most :D

Nao Force - Joutro Mundo https://youtu.be/A2I6dEdQqOY

Tongo Barra - Vieux Farke Touré, Khruangbin https://youtu.be/bVDRTYeGw6Q

Un Simple Histoire - Thievery Corporation https://youtu.be/sCoeuDvwUFk

The French Open - Foals https://youtu.be/MuRODr6vygw

Songs in Russian minorities languages:

• In Bashkir language Homay by Ay Yola
• In Tatar language Piala by Aigel
• In Chulym language Legend by Otyken

"Buka" by Kwiat Jabłoni

Tuvan Internationale and Kongurei by Huun Huur Tu.

I speak/understand Spanish, Icelandic, Dutch, Arabic and German but I ended up listening to Estonian music for a bit and they have some bangers there.

🇪🇪 Alüspukse by 5MIINUST

🇪🇪 push it by nublu

🇪🇪 kanuu by säm

Also, fun note, for a country og 400k Iceland has 3 entries here.

I'm enjoying No Comment by Kneecap recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBTNyJ33LWI I like rammstein's zick zack, I know they are lambasting plastic surgery but as a trans person I love enthusiastically shouting CUT IT OFF when the chorus happens in a sort of ironic way

Slack Bird - Tupakkarulla

Nas Ne Dogoniat

Mahlalela by Letta Mbulu from South Africa

I don't really know what language that is. If somebody could provide a transcription of the lyrics, I would be very happy to finally be able to translate and understand it.

Du Hast - Rammstein (German) Fighting Dreamers from Naruto (Japanese)

Malagueña Salerosa by Chingon from Kill Bill

ETA: +1 for Carmina Burana, and I’ll add Hall of the Mountain King, & Beethoven’s 9th for good measure!

Froukje — Groter Dan Ik

I love good lyrics so am not wild about listening to music in a language I don't understand but its kinda common to have songs with english and another language so the stuff I don't understand is just kinda dispersed. Also since I watch animes Im used to having songs that are in a lnguage I don't know. Don't really have a favorite though. All my favorite songs are in english.

Lewa lesu mai - classic Fijian song don't know who the original artist is

Also anything from Altin Gün

New World, by L'Arc~en~Ciel

Seven Seconds by Youssou N'dour and Neneh Cherry (French and English)

• this was my first foray into "world music" in, like Grade 7.

Sadeness by Enigma (Latin and French)

Miserere by Arvo Pärt (Latin)

The Expanse by Clinton Shorter (Old Norse?)

Disappointment by Moon (Russian?)

Also, I lived in Korea when Gangnam Style dropped. It was magical at the outset, but now... well, hyperexposure is a real thing. But, good on Psy for his work.

Судно (Борис Рыжий) - by Molchat Doma

Anda inn by Ouse Idk what it means but by god is it catchy

Wardruna - Helvegen (and the Kalandra cover) Bendik - Stille (all of the old albums before the style pivot are amazing)

Those are immediately on my mind and needed to share them in case someone else might enjoy! There is a lot more, those just popped right up without even thinking

Edit: Ekkolodd - Perler too, Asgeir - Heimförin!

These four songs are a solid intro to the bands if anyone’s interested!

Edit2: Well fuck me, I did mention Kalandra, but the absolute best from them in my opinion happens to be in Norwegian (I think?): Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang!

Tldr:

Wardruna - Helvegen

Kalandra - Helvegen (cover of above)

Bendik - Stille

Ekkolodd - Perler

Asgeir - Heimförin

Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang

Everything by MADKID and Chihara Minori is great

I got this one. Just fun vibes. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3-zq0s5kw&desc_update=1

Otherwise some Anri songs like

Remember Summer Days

And similar City Pop (i think that's the genre)

Does Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano count? It's sung in Gibberish that was meant to sound like an American singing in english to non english speakers.

Hjerteknuser by Kaizers Orchestra but it's a lil' cheat since I understand a little Norwegian.

Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós this one sounds so so beautiful.

Jumalan terve by Markus Krunegård when he expanded to Finnish music I was a bit surprised to learn he speaks Finnish natively. So when he then released this album I was very excited. It's Swedish styled pop but in Finnish.

Sexy Doll by Republika
Sola by Amplifiki
Hudey Hudey by Asu Maralman
Viszlát Nyár by AWS
Matando Sueños by Euroshima
Kufi by Duman
Mówię Ci, że by Tilt
Ich zieh nur noch einmal um by Das Auge Gottes

Just to name a few

The Seatbelts, “The Real Folk Blues”