here are Some great french records to help you guys. These are my favorites from 2006-2007:

Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil (indie pop)
Dumas - fixer le temps (soft pop/rock)
TTC - 3615TTC (rap)
Michel Faubert - la fin du monde (traditionnal music/electro)

My best <I hate the term world music, where's yours from - Mars?> releases of 2007 so far:-

1/ Various Artists - Authenticite : the Syliphone Years (Guinea)
2/ Rail Band - 'allo Bamako (Mali)
3/ Rail Band - Rail Band Vol. 1 : Soundiata (Mali)
4/ Various Artists - Cuban Pearls Vol.2 : Cuba - Soneros de ayer y de hoy (Cuba)
5/ Tinarawen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life (Mali)
6/ King Ayisoba - Modern Ghanaians (Ghana)
7/ Various Artists - Zanzibara 3 • Ujamaa - The 60's Sound of Tanzania (Tanzania)
8/ Various Artists - Cuban Pearls Vol.1 : Cuba - Una noche en la Habana (Cuba)
9/ Vieux Farka Toure - Vieux Farka Toure (Mali)
10/ Opiyo Bilongo & Bilongo Golden Stars - What Do People Want? (Kenya)

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This one is a great band from Hungrary, with great music :-)

http://www.chalga.hu
or on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxWyhxeFYeY

"El Arbi" by Khaled is one of my all-time favorite non-English songs.

Also, every song of The Supreme Collection: Volume One by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Having spent some time in the former soviet union, I have a small collection of Russian music I have grown to really love and respect.

My personal favorite is a group called Okean Elzie and a woman named Zemfira. Some good Rock-Pop-Euro sound. Also, for some more laid back folkier sounding Russian check out the band Lube. Great stuff. There's more of course, but that's my favorites.