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* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
** it can be assumed that most if not all of the music heard in the games featuring Gordon Freeman or other HEV suit wearing charactes is actually coming from the suit itself and is audible to the wearer.

** It occasionally bleeds into subsequent scenes, too. In "Sleeper", guest-artist ''Aimee Mann'' and her band kick up the volume during a violent encounter between Spike and another vampire in the Bronze's loft. Later, as the band leaves the stage, Mann mutters, "Man, I hate playing vampire towns."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', most of the times the original songs are played they are diegetic plus two non-original songs are played diegetically.

* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' only uses this kind of music, though it sometimes cheats slightly and lays formerly diegetic music over another scene, such as when Jim's brothers start playing Chris Brown's "Forever" as a prank during Jim and Pam's church wedding and it then plays over a montage of the wedding dance and their earlier secret elopement on the Maid of the Mist.

** ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}'' was unique in that it had no score, just a guy who really, really, '''''really''''' likes to sing and play the guitar and quite often broadcast it over the entire battlefield. Incidentally, this made ''all'' the music of ''Macross 7'' diegetic. Any other instances of music was clearly being played from a radio, such as Sharon Apple's music from Mylene's car radio.

* In ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'' the main character's phone rings with a digitized version of the song "Cries and Whispers" which plays occasionally in a non-diegetic fashion during the film.

** In both ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', the music that the audience hears is often from Peter listening to his Walk Man.

* ''{{Film/Predator}}'' has the main cast listening to [[{{Music/LittleRichard}} "Long Tall Sally"]] on the chopper's PA during the flight in-country. [[spoiler: Later towards the movie's climax, Mac sings the song himself as he's slowly going mad from being hunted by the Predator.]]

* Film/{{Kolya}}: Because several characters are musicians, there are more instances throughout the film. In a more notable mixed example, when Kolya's plane leaves at the end, a passage from Bedřich Smetana's "Tábor" begins to play, appearing at first to be just traditional soundtrack - but the next scenes reveal it is actually a piece being played by the symphonic orchestra at the concert where Louka is welcomed back.

* Series/TopGear: in the Botswana special, during a montage of Richard tearfully trying to fix his beloved (waterlogged) Oliver, a sad song begins playing in the background... And then the camera zooms out and you see that it's coming from Hammond's walkie-talkie, and it's actually Jeremy playing tragic songs on what appears to be an iPod. He and James then giggle and howl along to the music, explaining Hammond's frown.

** Early in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'', Zidane can hear Garnet singing and looks for her. As he searches, the BGM is Garnet's voice. Subverted in that she's accompanied by a harp in the BGM, but seems to be singing ''a cappella'' once Zidane reaches her.

** ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':

* VideoGame/HalfLife:

** The funniest example is in ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', when Snake enters Granin's office, and he's listening to a Sixties pop cover of the ''Metal Gear Solid'' theme tune on his record player.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', the song "Under Cover of Night" from the first game is played on a radio in the multiplayer level "High Ground".

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has radios (which are oddly still functional after 200 years) sitting around turned on and playing music and other broadcasts from the in-game radio stations. The player also has a wrist-mounted radio that can receive the same stations.

* The main protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' is never, ever seen without his Atlus Audio [=MP3=] player. He was even listening to the game's opening theme, "Burn My Dread," as he headed for the train station that would take him to his new home in Tatsumi Port Island. He listened to it ''on the train'', for that matter, and during the [[spoiler:FinalBattle]] --it must be his favorite.

* All of the weapons in the original Captain Forever games are quite musical when fired, and change tone as well, enough weapons will make entire songs as you vaporize various foes.

People in RealLife usually don't have music following them everywhere they go. But often people do find they've got some underscoring happening in their life -- be it from their car radio as they're driving, a band at a bar, or a street musician outside.

In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', most of the times the original songs are played they are diegetic plus two non-original songs are played diegetically.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', all of the music is played by in-universe bands, with WordOfGod confirming that the ''entire'' soundtrack is being heard by the characters as well as the players. For example, the explanation for the single-player music is that Agents 3 and 4 are picking up Octarian songs on their radio, while the music during Splatfests is being performed live by the hosts. [[spoiler:This trope especially comes into play during both games' final boss fights; the BigBad is a literal DJ, and you save the day with the help of idol singers.]]

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has the first half of the level "Crash Site", in which the player goes to town on Viet Cong with a PT boat while ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Sympathy for the Devil]]'' plays on the boat's radio. There's also minor examples {{bookend|s}}ing "S.O.G.", with the helicopter delivering Mason and Hudson at the start and the one delivering Bowman at the end both playing ''[[Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival Fortunate Son]]'' over their radios.

* In the old NES game ''VideoGame/RadRacer'', the car has 3 radio stations (read: songs) to choose from for the BGM. This is inspired by the game ''Rad Racer'' is derived from, Sega's ''[[VideoGame/OutRun]]'', which had the same mechanic and justification before starting a play session.

* In the old NES game ''VideoGame/RadRacer'', the car has 3 radio stations (read: songs) to choose from for the BGM.

* In the Season 3 finale of ''Series/TheBoys'', Kimiko plays "Maniac" by Michael Sembello from her phone while [[spoiler: killing the Vought Tower guards to protect Frenchie while he makes the Novichok]]

* ''Film/PortraitOfALadyOnFire'' takes this UpToEleven: [[{{RealityHasNoSoundtrack}} the film has almost no soundtrack to reflect how precious Héloïse finds music in a time period where recordings don't exist and concerts are typically a privilege only enjoyed by the rich.]] As such, the only three instances of music are entirely diegetic and very significant: the scene of Marianne playing a bit of "Summer" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the harpsichord for Héloïse, the women singing at the bonfire, and [[spoiler: the ending scene, in which Marianne witnesses Héloïse being moved to tears while listening to a full orchestra play "Summer."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Three examples from season one:

* If you pay close attention, the only time there's non-diegetic music in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' is during a {{Montage}}. Although that show uses montages with great frequency anyways.

* Happens multiple times in the animated ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' film, often in scenes where Roger is composing music.

* Almost all the music in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' is played on a piano by the character Sam.

* In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight," is playing on the radio, where Mitch and Samantha are listening, and the two of them get into a discussion because he's [[{{mondegreen}} mondegreening]] the lyrics of the song.

* In ''VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer'' and ''VideoGame/CadenceOfHyrule'', the shopkeeper Freddie Merchantry sings along with the background music. When he's PromotedToPlayable in ''Cadence of Hyrule'', he even sings the "ItemGet" and "Secret Discovered" jingles a capella to celebrate.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Ys}} Ys Book I & II]]'', one floor of Darm Tower features a ''Twilight Zone''-style source music [[BrownNote that drains Adol's HP.]] To stop the evil music, you must break one of the pillars.