Scandinavia? Well, maybe the bands (mainly Swede) singing in English, but the rest...? Perhaps in a hypothetical other thread for outside the Anglosphere, and only to be beaten (at least regarding popular music) by Spain and Argentina (and I'm not kidding). :D

Yeah, a poll/thread for music from the non English speaking world would be quite cool... :-)

The poll would have to have well over 150 options on it. Seems too cumbersome to be worthwhile to me.

Mmmm, surely it'd be possible to group some countries together for the sake of a poll like this? But yeah, I see your point.

I'd make a main division: classical and popular music. Then, choose a small number of countries. That is, the most important ones. For popular music:

• Germany
• Sweden
• Spain
• Argentina
• Brazil
• France
• Italy
• Japan
• (ex) Yugoslavia
• What else?

Our main problem is the lack of information. Some of us (Scissorman, Dankrsta, Number9Dream, Ikvat, Petula, Vegangelica, me and others) are providing that info at the World Music section. But there's a "deficit" of German, Italian, Japanese and Scandinavian (in non-English languages) music.

That seems like very limited list. No African countries, seriously? And what about Mexico, Cuba, Turkey and many other countries with rich musical heritage? Hell, what about China and India? They're the two biggest countries in the world after all.

Yeah, looks like a good start to me...

How about also...
... the former Eastern bloc countries (for the purpose of this, all lumped together, yeah, it's not fair, I know....)?
... north african/ arabic music?
... Israel?

Probably not an exhaustive list....and not that I'm trying to hijack the thread...

However, nobody has mentioned the "rich musical heritage" (in other words, traditional music) of the Anglosphere here. For instance, if we look at Ireland, what about Celtic music?

Not sure if I understand your point, but I wasn't necessarily talking about traditional music.