Arabic Music Ain't No Side Quest — It's the Main Event

Eddy Maroun didn't build Anghami just to prove streaming works in the Arab world — he built it to prove Arab music matters. Now through his new venture IPNation, he's putting real money where that conviction is: $100M to acquire music catalogs across MENA, and he's not sugar-coating the mission.

The message is simple and overdue: Arabic music isn't some emerging market curiosity. It's not a niche waiting for a venture capitalist to "discover" it. It's a fully-formed, globally-significant catalog space that's been undervalued and under-invested in while the industry chased the same English-language plays everyone else did.

This move signals something bigger than one fund or one region. When you've got serious capital moving into Arabic music catalogs — not as an experiment, but as a core strategy — it means the gatekeepers are finally reckoning with what listeners already knew. MENA music has been slept on by the business side for too long.

Whether IPNation can actually pull off a $100M catalog sweep and what that means for artist deals, publishing rights, and the region's music economy — that's the story that matters next.

Read the full story at Music Business Worldwide → https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/arabic-music-is-not-a-niche-waiting-to-be-discovered/