2023-12-20 17:18:13
Despite optimistic expectations for an improvement in the status of the Egyptian song at the beginning of this year, musicians pointed to a decline in its numbers and level of spread throughout the months of the year, especially in the last quarter of it, compared to its brilliance last year.
According to the lists of the most listened to and viewed on the famous audio platforms, Egyptian songs have disappeared from these lists during the year 2023, which is about to end.
The year 2022 witnessed the release of 3 Egyptian songs that achieved great success throughout the Arab world. While the song “From the First Minute” by the Lebanese artist Elissa and the Moroccan artist Saad Lamjarred topped the top of the most listened to and viewed Arabic songs with 312 million views, the song “” The Deer is Comfortable” by artist Karim Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, and in third place is the song “Sawt Al-Eid” by artist Ahmed Saad, after the two songs crossed the 250 million views barrier on YouTube.
On the other hand, the rates of viewing and listening to Egyptian songs declined in 2023, as they were the most listened to Egyptian songs during the year. The song of the Moroccan artist Nawal Abdel Shafi, “Makhasamak,” achieved 138 million views, and the song of the artist Ahmed Saad, “My Choices Are Destroying My Life,” came in second place with 128 million views, and in third place was the song “Satalana,” presented by Egyptian popular song stars such as Abdel Basset Hamouda. Hamdi Bachchan and Mahmoud Al-Laithi are in third place with 113 million views.
Music critic Fawzi Ibrahim believes that “2023 is one of the weakest years for Egyptian song since the Arab Spring revolutions, and there are several factors that caused this, including the decline of mahraganat and rap songs, which were a major concern for classical singers; The past years have witnessed a fierce competition between classical singers and mahraganat and rap performers. Each party was trying to provide everything in its power in order to win over the Egyptian listener, but now the arena has returned again to classical singers, with slight mutations for rap performers, in addition to the lack of strong words and melodies. able to succeed.
Singer Nawal on the poster for the song “Makhsamak” (her Instagram account)
Fawzi pointed out in statements to Asharq Al-Awsat that “the Gaza war affected the Egyptian music industry; Because the period of prosperity of the Egyptian song is usually during the summer, and at the end of the year, and the war that began at the beginning of October (October) continues until now, which caused the industry to stop for more than two months. The majority of the great singers such as Amr Diab, Mohamed Hamaki, and Tamer… Hosni postponed their work, and are unable to set a new date to present their work.”
In the same context; The number of new albums declined in 2023, as only a few albums were released by artists Hamza Namira, who released an album on his official YouTube channel entitled “Winds of Life,” and Marwan Pablo, who released the album “A Piece of Art,” while 2022 witnessed the release of a number There are many successful albums that resonated in the Egyptian and Arab streets, such as the album “Ya Fatni” by the artist Mohamed Hamaki, the album “Tiji Netarahan” by Tamer Ashour, and the album “With Me You Will Be Creative” by Rami Sabry, whose song “Maybe Khair” achieved more than 120 million views. View within album.
In turn, Egyptian lyricist Awad Badawi attributes the reason for the decline of the Egyptian song during the current year to the small number of music producers, telling Asharq Al-Awsat: “The Egyptian song industry will continue to decline throughout the coming years; Due to the lack of a producer who is familiar with the song, the majority of Egyptian singers currently produce for themselves, meaning that if they fail in one or two songs, they will stay away from singing for long periods of time. Because they are unable to continuously lose, unlike experienced producers in the market, who deal with more than one singer at the same time.”
Badawi pointed out that “the Egyptian market currently includes very few competent producers, including producer Mohsen Gaber and his son Mohamed Gaber,” as he put it.
Mahraganat songs, according to Egyptian musicians, were no better than the classic song in 2023, as they also witnessed a noticeable decline due to the preoccupation of their stars with their own problems, including Hassan Shakoush, who got married and separated during the year and entered into legal conflicts with his ex-wife, in addition to Omar Kamal, who had… He topped the viewing figures last year in the festivals category with the song “You Are My Heart,” which achieved 150 million views, but he was suspended more than once by the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate due to union and supervisory disputes and crises.
Singer Omar Kamal (his Facebook account)
This decline also extended to rap songs; No song by Egyptian rappers exceeded the 7 million views this year on YouTube, despite the song “Bakht” by Wiggs achieving more than 160 million views last year.
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