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Dehati (Shadmehr Aghili album)

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Dehati (دهاتی The Villager ) is a 1999 Persian-language pop album by Shadmehr Aghili.[1] By mid-2014, the album was announced as the best-selling Iranian Pop album in history, having sold over 10 million units around the world.

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  1. ^ GJ Breyley, Sasan Fatemi Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi 2015 - 1317336798 citing Sadighi and Mahdavi (2009) ..."This commercial trend continued until 1998, when a cadre of pop musicians, notably Shadmehr Aghili, whose album Dehati smashed sales records, came out with albums that did not try to imitate pre-revolutionary singers or adhere to the officially sanctioned themes of religious devotion,"