Spotify users will now be able to listen to Elissa, Bahaa Sultan, Mohammed Abdu, Abdul Majeed Abdullah and others on the platform.
Audio streaming platform Spotify has expanded its Arabic music catalogue by adding more than 10,000 Arabic songs to its platform.
Spotify and Rotana signed a licensing agreement that will allow the label’s once-exclusive music catalogue to be available on Spotify across the Middle East and North Africa, and other markets where the service is live.
The new catalogue features more than 10,000 songs by around 100 legendary Arab artists from across the region, including Elissa, Abdul Majeed Abdullah, Rashed Al-Majed, Assala Nasri, Majed Almohandis, Rabeh Saqer, Mohammed Abdu, Najwa Karam, Bahaa Sultan and Tamer Hosny. Spotify will be providing further on-platform support with the introduction of a new destination, “This is Rotana”, which will be home to some of the most popular songs by the label. In addition, Spotify’s very own “This Is” playlists for each major artist will be updated regularly with their songs from the Rotana catalogue.
The Rotana catalogue will be available to users in Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
