Aktar Wahed (also known as Aktar Wahed Beihebak) is a studio album by Amr Diab, and was released in 2001 following the success of the previous album Tamally Maak, it contains 10 tracks, as the head of the album was "Wala Ala Baloh". The album received the World Music Award for the best-selling album in the Middle East for 2001.The Rough Guide to Cairo & the Pyramids 1405386258 2011 p.208 "Egypt's foremost pop idol, Amr Diab, broke into the international market with the song “Nour el Ain”, released in 1996, and had another international hit in 2001 with “Aktar Wahed”. "
Commercial performance After the great success of Tamally Maak in 2000, the album Aktar Wahed achieved the highest sales in the history of singing in the Middle East and North Africa, where its sales reached 11 million copies.
Track listing The unofficial italicised English titles listed below are the closest and most accurate translations of the original titles.
Personnel Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
Musicians Amr Diab vocals , string composition , music direction Hussein Saber oud Reda Bedair nay Maged Sorour qanun Sandman rap vocals Pino Fares Spanish guitar solo , rhythm Spanish guitar , instrumental solo composition Ahmed El Ayadi tabla Mostafa Aslan guitar , rhythm Spanish guitar , lead and rhythm folk guitar Nabil Bergas nay Hisham El Araby riq Farouk Mohamed Hassan accordion Ibrahim Fathy kawala Yehia El Mougy violin Tarek Madkour piano , vibraphone , instrumental solo composition
Technical Tarek Madkour arrangement , music direction, final mixing, editing, digital mastering Yehia El Mougy string arrangement Yasser Anwar recording, mixing
Artwork Khaled Roshdy layout, cover design
Covers of some songs
The Serbian singer Jami, in her 2004 album, released a song entitled "One stvari", which is a Serbian cover version of Diab's "Wala Ala Baloh". One year later, the Uzbek singer Yodgor Mirjazajonov released an Uzbek language version of the same song entitled "Gózalim".
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