Issam Alnajjar
عصام النجار
Musician
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Jordan
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Amman,
Jordan
The Amman teenager whose bedroom-recorded 'Hadal Ahbek' became one of the most-streamed Arabic songs of its era.
Issam Alnajjar recorded Hadal Ahbek as a teenager in Amman, and watched it become a global TikTok phenomenon — one of the rare Arabic-language songs to chart on Spotify's global viral lists and rack up streams in the hundreds of millions.
The follow-up mattered more: a remix with Loud Luxury and Ali Gatie (Turning Me Up) and a major-label push made him an early test case for how Arabic-language pop travels through Western industry channels without translation.
Languages
Arabic, English
Representation
Independent