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and ranked first in terms of sales upon its release. For three months, it occupied the first three spots in the best-selling albums chart along with the album ''Fi Eshg El Banat'' by singer

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, which was released at the same time. As a result of the heavy demand and the limited availability of the first edition, eight additional editions were issued, with an average of 120,000 copies sold per edition. The album remained among the best-selling albums in the following year, in competition with the albums released at the end of 2000, such as ''Inta al Aziz'' and ''Jarhi Ana'', and albums released at the beginning of the year 2001, such as ''Habib el Alb'' and ''Laila Habibi''. However, its main rival was the album ''

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'', with which it competed in the best-selling albums chart for a whole year. The album consisted of eleven songs, all written by Elias Nasser, and included a duet with

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titled "Betghib Betrouh".مجلة الافكار - Number 946 - Page 7
20 October 2000. The song's music video won many awards,الساهر وسميرة سعيد يفوزان بجائزة أفضل فيديو كليب
Aljazeera, 13 April 2001. and as a result of its success, special editions were released under its name, which ranked first in the lists of the best-selling albums in Egypt. The duet also became among the most streamed songs for an entire year on Arab websites at the time.السينما والناس - Page 30 - Number 743 - Year 2001
In 2001, Ragheb Alama included the song in his album ''Saharooni el Leil'' to take advantage of the wide success.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Elias Nasser. Notes *"Betghib Betrouh" is an Arabic-language cover of the 1995 Turkish song "Delice Bir Sevda" by . *"Wahyatt El Hob" is an Arabic-language cover of the 2000 Turkish song "Ya Hey" by Emrah. The song was included as an additional track in the form of a duet in Arabic with Emrah in the 2001 edition of ''W'akherta Maak''. *"Sa'alna" is an Arabic-language cover of the 1999 Turkish song "Seninki" by

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. *"Saharni Habibi" is an Arabic-language cover of the 1999 Turkish song "Asrın Hatası" by Serdar Ortaç.

Credits

Adapted from the album liner notes. * Edouard Meunier - mixing * Georges Youssef - design * Nadine Ashkar - photographer

References

{{Authority control Elissa (singer) albums 2000 albums