Streaming platform Anghami has partnered with AI music intelligence platform Cyanite to enrich 2.5 million songs using AI-generated music metadata.
Anghami is a leading music and entertainment platform in the MENA region with more than 120 million registered users.
By integrating Cyanite‘s auto-tagging API, Anghami has enhanced its catalogue with detailed audio-based metadata across mood, genre, energy, instrumentation, and more.
The structured data layer feeds directly into Anghami’s internal recommendation systems, enabling more precise and scalable music discovery.
“At a catalogue scale of millions of tracks, metadata quality becomes a strategic driver of personalisation,” said a statement. “Structured and consistent tagging enables streaming platforms to better match songs with listeners, surface long-tail content, and improve personalisation across diverse repertoires.”
We’re proud that our audio-based AI can support music discovery at this scale and across such a rich regional landscape
Markus Schwarzer
Anghami said the partnership also underscores its commitment to accurately representing the richness of Arabic music. A significant share of its catalogue consists of regional content that is often underrepresented in Western-centric AI systems.
Because Cyanite analyses audio directly, rather than relying on behavioural signals or language-based metadata, its models operate consistently across musical cultures and languages.
“Anghami operates one of the most culturally diverse music catalogs in the world,” said Markus Schwarzer (pictured), CEO at Cyanite. “Ensuring that Arabic repertoire is tagged with the same precision as Western music is not trivial. We’re proud that our audio-based AI can support music discovery at this scale and across such a rich regional landscape.”
“Arabic music carries immense depth, emotion and cultural nuance,” said Elias El Khoury, VP, information & content systems at Anghami. “Through our partnership with Cyanite, we’re ensuring that this richness is understood at a data level, allowing us to power more accurate personalisation and elevate discovery for millions of listeners.”
Cyanite has tagged over 40 million songs and is used by more than 200 companies worldwide, including Warner Chappell, BMG, Epidemic Sound and APM Music.
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