Music

Spotify is gearing up for the Middle East and North Africa launch

Published

6 years ago

1:55 pm, November 12, 2018

The music-streaming service Spotify will go live in the Middle East and North Africa soon, according to its verified twitter MENA account @SpotifyArabia.

The twitter account was created last month, hasn’t any tweets yet, gained over 8,000 followers, and covered with “Spotify is coming soon”.

spotify pre-launch on social media in mena region, spotify is coming to MENA

Source: Twitter

The platform is now in Arabic across the region’s 13 countries – Which wasn’t the case few days ago when we went to verify reports by MENABytes highlighting an invite-only signup in four countries Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which was unavailable when we visited the site.

We reached out to Spotify for a comment, but they did not respond.

Typically, the service will be launched with the offer of a one-month free trial, after users provide their credit card information, similar to Netflix two years ago.

Last month, the music-streaming platform Deezer become available in the Middle East region. To join Apple Music and local music streaming Anghami.

Earlier this year, Spotify began hiring for a number of positions locally, indicating an imminent regional launch. In February, it also disclosed that it had opened its regional office in Dubai, UAE.

In September, Spotify was looking for six brands to advertise, at a cost of $200,000 each, ahead of the platform’s November launch. According to Gulf news.

With over 83 million paid subscribers worldwide, Spotify’s business model relies on a combination of advertising and paid subscriptions. In 2017, Spotify earned €4.1 billion in revenues.

Operating across 65 markets, Spotify continues to be unavailable in a number of key territories, including India, Russia, and most of Africa.

Music

Top 10 Christmas Songs to Play This Holiday

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2 years ago

8:44 pm, December 15, 2022

Ahmed Maher

Top 10 Christmas Songs to Play This Holiday

End-of-year holidays have a unique taste of everything, especially Christmas and new year songs; we would like to share with you the most played Xmas songs on Youtube and Shazam.

Here’s the top 10 songs list for Christmas.

1. All I Want For Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey

2. Last Christmas – Wham!

3. Christmas Canon – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

4. Do They Know It’s Christmas? – Band-Aid 30

5. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – John & Yoko, The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir)

6. Fairytale Of New York – The Pogues Feat. Kirsty MacColl

7. Feliz Navidad – José Feliciano

8. Last Christmas – Taylor Swift

9. Please Come Home For Christmas – Bon Jovi

10. White Christmas – The Drifters

We wish you a merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2015! Please celebrate with us on Facebook at Digital Boom

Bonus: Check out The Top Ten Most Shazamed Songs of 2014 Worldwide.

Music

List of Egyptian songs used in Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ Season 1

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2 years ago

10:47 am, May 16, 2022

Dana Khammash

Egyptian songs in Marvels "Moon Knight" soundtrack

Marvel’s latest production, “Moon Knight,” has featured some popular Egyptian songs in the soundtrack, giving some oriental delicious flavor to its episodes. The series is created by the Egyptian director “Mohamed Diab.”

For those who want to listen to the full Egyptian songs from the “Moon Knight” series, we brought you the original songs used in season 1.

Made in Egypt – DJ KABOO (Episode 1 The GoldFish)

Bahlam Maak – Nagat (Episode 1 The Gold Fish)

El Melouk (feat. 3enba & Double Zuksh) – Ahmed Saad (Episode 2 summon the suite)

Enta – DJ Kaboo (Episode 3, the friendly type)

Batwanes Beek – Warda (Episode 3, the friendly type)

Shaghalony – Abdel Halim Hafez (Episode 3, the friendly type)

Salka (feat. Wegz) – Hassan Shakosh (Episode 3, the friendly type)

Sabah – Saat Saat (Episode 4 The Tomb & Episode 5 Asylum)

Rayess Bem – Love and Revenge (Episode5 Asylum)

The “Moon Knight” series stars US actors Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, and Egyptian-Palestinian actress May Calamawy.

In a twist from the comic books, Moon Knight’s alter ego is the Jewish-American mercenary Marc Spector; Isaac plays gift shop worker Steven Grant, a sleep-deprived Londoner who suffers from dissociative identity disorder and is haunted by memories of Spector.

The series debuted internationally on Disney+ on March 30 and will premiere in the region this summer, as Disney+ will be available in MENA by June 8, 2022.