Diab is the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let's Go Egypt. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist four times: 1998, 2002 , 2007 and 2009.

He has also sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab was born October 11, 1961 in Port Said. His father was an accountant and his mother a French teacher.