Type of business Private Country of origin Lebanon | Available in Arabic
English
French | |
Founded 2012; 5 years ago (2012) Headquarters Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon Area served Middle East and North Africa (full catalogue)
Worldwide (Arabic songs) | ||
Anghami is the first legal music streaming platform and digital distribution company in the MENA region launched in November 2012 providing unlimited Arabic and International music to stream and download for offline mode. It is designed for the Middle East and North Africa to provide the largest music catalog of licensed content from the major Arabic labels such as Rotana, Melody, Mazzika, Platinum Records and many other indies, in addition to international majors labels such as EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner Music Group. Anghami is one of the largest digital music venture in the Middle-East seed funded by MEVP. The goal of Anghami was to reduce music piracy in the Middle East, citing music piracy rate in that area is very high and should provide this service to serve as an alternative to piracy.
Anghami was founded by Eddy Maroun and Elie Habib in Lebanon, launched initinally as a mobile only app with the slogan "The idea is that everywhere you go, you’ll find your music". One of Anghami's app features is Dolby Pulse encoding, which reduces the file size of the music for faster and reliable streaming methods in the internet where the bandwidth situation is fluctuated.
Shortly after the partnership between Anghami and mobile operators in MENA has been agreed few months after launching, the service experienced rapid growth with 1 million registered users four months after the launch. However, the next million was reached in 3 months mainly after partnering with the major media player MBC Group Middle East Broadcasting Center that featured Anghami in one of its most successful TV shows "Arab Idol".
The company claimed revenues exceeded $10m in 2016.