Kolma N'arrab (Whenever We Come Closer) is the eighteenth full-length Arabic studio album from Egyptian pop singer Angham. The album was released on 10 June 2007 in Egypt, on 15 June 2007 in Middle East, and 3 July 2007 worldwide. On the first day of its release, the album's tracks were available to buy from iTunes. The album features what Angham describes as "an image of who she actually is, without retouch or fakeness, exposing to her audience her raw personality." The album has been both a critical and commercial success, after a commercially failed previous album despite its creativity, and has so far sold in excess between 850 000 and 980 000 copies in the Middle East. Some sources revealed that Rotana, Mazzika and Dream channels confirmed that the record of Kolma Nearrab is 800 000 CD, placing the record in a second position among the best-selling records released in 2007 in Middle East. Moreover, elBayan newspaper stipulated that the record sold half a million CD since 18 August 2007 and the number of sales is still escalating. Broadcast intensively one week prior to the album's release in the market, its first single "Kolma N'arrab" was filmed as a music video by director Ahmad elMahdy in Egypt and was ranked, upon its arrival to Rotana's Top 20 chart, at rank eleven before it moved to rank one after seven consecutive weeks. Rotana's spokesperson, Tony Semaan, assured the record has now a platinum certification. Album information The Album was recorded at Angham's private studio in alShourouk (Egypt) near her house to prevent any leakage of songs and news to the media and press. Angham changed the style of music she adopted in her previous records by picking up a vivid style of music, influenced heavily by reggaeton beats and jazz. She described this record as her first step to introduce her songs to the young demographic which she has failed from to reach for the most part. Contrary to her preceding records, "Omry Maak" (My Life with you) in 2003 and "Bahibbik Wahashteeny" (I Love you and Miss you) in 2005, her husband, music arranger Fahd, limited his contributions to the arrangements of the tracks. He worked on four songs only, after heavy criticism of her ability to release a record without his help. The record's tracks were recorded by M. Nash'at Naser elDeen and Mohammad Saker while the mixing