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This is a slideshare where the owner provides many songs to help teach French vocabulary, tenses, and verbs. She offers detailed lessons on how to teach the music beyond just the words.

The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.   Can be used in your class, on class websites, or student projects.

A spreadsheet listing 1,195 (and growing!) songs in Spanish. Includes artist, title, grammar and vocabulary covered, culture, country of origin, and any other pertinent links to, for example, YouTube videos. Suggestions for songs not found here are welcome by site creator Sra. Birch.

I actually worked with this teacher during my interships in my undergraduate studies. She is very big into using music and videos in the classroom.

Nick, that is really cool! Yes, apparently she DOES get into teaching with music, with such a huge compilation of songs!

Youtube videos of iTunes Top 100 songs in 20 genres (60+ country).  

This is an awesome YouTube channel by Sylvia Duckworth. I would use her Chansons au Powerpoint to pre-teach vocabulary and then reinforce the learning with the music/PowerPoint combination.  Other videos offer a plethora of topics that can be used in your classroom.  Her use of GoAnimate inspires me to have my students create similar projects to tell stories.   Although in French, the ideas are easily used in Spanish and other WL classrooms. 

This website, in English, is a great place to find the names of currently popular French musicians and songs. Some videos are embedded. Teachers could select songs to exploit in class, or they could direct students there to discover new music.

Goethe Institute website with music and other helps

Students are encouraged to write their own lyrics to songs of their choice, translate them into the target language, record them (audio or video), and share with the world.  This is an excellent way of incorporating 21st century skills, ISTEs, ACTFL standards, and more.  This could require collabortion, too.    This project is 'owned' by the students - teachers just guide the process.  Many examples and support available.

Free music website where you can share playlists.

Copyright and creative commons - Lesson plans

I was looking at the same website!! I find this song also a good way to introduce copyrights to students in a fun way. http://mediaeducationlab.com/1-whats-copyright-music-video

This is the official site for Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows users to license their creative work (e.g., music, blogs, photographs, course materials, etc.) in online environments.

Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Weaving together images, music, text, and voice, digital stories can be created in all content areas and at all grade levels while incorporating the 21st century skills of creating, communicating, and collaborating

The easy way to create and share extraordinary videos of your life. Our online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into video in minutes. I can envision using Animoto in an Intermediate Spanish course and having students document - in audio and video - part of their day, be it what they ate for dinner in campus dining hall or a trip to a local museum, etc.