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38 albums · 2001–2026

Music of Jordan, from Omar Al-Abdallat and the Jerash festival to Jadal, Autostrad, El Morabba3 and today

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A bedouin musician seated on a rug at Petra, playing the rababa, a child beside him
The audience on the stone seats of the Roman theatre at Jerash, clapping during a festival concertMahmoud Radaideh of Jadal singing at the microphone with his guitar, in black and white
A rababa player at Petra in 2019. Photo: Jayadeep.r, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · The audience in the Roman theatre at the Jerash festival in 2018. Photo: Addustour, Jordan Press & Publication Co., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Mahmoud Radaideh of Jadal on stage in 2014. Photo: Enas El Masry, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jordan's popular music has the rababa and the bedouin song at its root, the samer and the dahiyeh behind the folk song that Omar Al-Abdallat and Hussein Al Salman took to the stages of the Jerash festival, and beside them the singers Diana Karazon, Toni Qattan, Macadi Nahhas and Nedaa Shrara, then the rock of Amman from Jadal, Autostrad, El Morabba3 and Akher Zapheer, Bilocate's doom metal, the rap of El Far3i, The Synaptik and Emsallam, 47Soul's shamstep, Zade's piano, Sakher Hattar's oud and Kamal Musallam's jazz, and Issam Alnajjar and Dana Salah today, with the Jordanian-Palestinian artists of Amman counted in. The list has 38 records from 2001 to 2026, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; Aziz Maraka, Tareq Al Nasser's Rum, Sign of Thyme, Yacoub Abu Ghosh, Satti and Torabyeh are missing because their records are not on Deezer, and the bedouin song beyond a few recordings, the church and Sufi music, the National Music Conservatory's ensembles and the many records that never reached streaming would each need a list of their own. About 29 hours of music, 4 days of a few records each.

By genre

Pop 13%Folk & Country 11%Rock 9%Other 67%
  • Pop 13%
  • Folk & Country 11%
  • Rock 9%
  • Other 67%

The genres named most: jordanian, pop, folk, hip hop, rock, bedouin.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Jordan 38. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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