opinion on the provocative piece. Ajram, however, refused to admit her music video is scandalous in the least, defending in a radio interview: According to Laha Magazine, she added: Despite the criticism for Ajram's return to a seductive and sexual appeal, the video broke YouTube records as the fastest viewed Arabic music video of all time, collecting over a million views in less than 24 hours. Commercial performance Nancy 8 debuted at number one on the Best-Selling Albums Chart of HitSorter and stayed atop for continuous weeks. It also debuted at number 10 on the Billboard World Albums chart. The album was 2014's highest debut for a female album in the Middle East. As a result, Ajram received World Music Award as the best-selling Middle Eastern Live Act. Nancy 8 topped Virgin Megastores sales in the Arab world for 9 continuous weeks, then remained among the Top 10 highest-selling albums for non-continuous weeks. Critical reception The reception to Nancy 8 was mixed to positive. Bitajarod website gave the album a positive review, saying Ajram "created, excelled, won and refreshed the music scene with an artistic bomb with which she rebelled with performance and emotion". Lone Reviewer website gave a mixed review to the album, saying "Overall just above-average album from Nancy, some good songs but I expected better." The website criticized the lack of coherence and of inspiration in this album. Track listing The track list was announced via iTunes on March 9, 2014. Standard edition Notes: The song is officially referred to by two different titles in the album's liner notes. Personnel Adapted from the album liner notes. Ahmed Ragab – bass (tracks 1,2,6,9) Amr Tantawy – guitar (track 1) Ahmed Ayadi – tabla (tracks 1,9,12) Hisham El Arabi – riq (track 1) Tarek Madkour – producer; mixing (tracks 1,2,4); keyboards and drums programming (tracks 1,4); synth bass (track 4) Yehia EL Mougy – strings writing and conducting (track 2) Ousso Lotfy – guitar (track 2) Raymond El Hajj – percussion (tracks 3,11) Elie Barbar – mastering; mixing engineer (tracks 3,7,8,11,12,14) Tamer Ghonim – strings conducting (tracks 3,9,11,12,14) Mostafa Aslan – guitar (tracks 3,6,9,10,11,12,14) Mostafa Abbas – snare drum (track 4) Sherif Said – guitar (track 4) Hussam Kamil – producer; mixing engineer (track 5) Said Kamal – strings writing (track 6) Mohammed Sakr – mixing engineer (tracks 6,13) Mohammed Ismail – strings conducting (track 6) Farouk Mohammed Hasan