Gökhan Tepe

Arabesk is a Turkish popular music style characterized by deeply emotive singing, melodramatic lyrics, and melodies grounded in the makam (modal) tradition.

Turkish pop is the mainstream popular music of Turkey, blending Western pop songcraft and production with Turkish melodic modes (makam), ornamentation, and rhythmic sensibilities.

Egyptian viral pop appears among Spotify’s genre labels for artists and in The Sounds of Spotify playlist “The Sound of Egyptian Viral Pop”; little is written about it.