I would like to promote emusic.com as a convenient, ethical, reputable, and affordable site to purchase a nice collection of Middle Eastern music suitable for belly dancing. This is NOT a file-sharing site. It is a totally legal way to purchase music to download. If you have a bank card, a computer and an internet connection you can buy 5-7 albums for about the cost of purchasing one CD (most belly dance CDs are $15-20). There are no restrictions on music files from emusic.com, you can copy them as many times as you want, and you can use them with your iPod, iTunes, or any other mp3 player or software. You can also burn the music to CDs. Disclaimers: I am an emusic affiliate; if you sign up for emusic via a link on this website, I will earn a very modest commission that I use to defray website expenses. I have also been a very satisfied emusic customer for several years.

There is a lot of good quality music on emusic.com, mostly smaller record labels. For belly dance music, your best bet is to browse the “international” section and then go to “Middle East”, and then also to search under "belly dance" and "bellydance" to catch things classified in other genres.

For your convenience, I have compiled a list of belly dance related albums here (this will take you to my list on emusic's website). I have tried to make this list all-inclusive in terms of dance styles (Egyptian, Lebanese, Turkish, American, Fusion, Tribal, etc). The music on this list is not obscure, unknown, or inferior; rather many of these are exactly the same popular albums you can buy on itunes, or from Maqam, Dahlal, and other vendors of Middle Eastern music for $10-23 per CD

Below are a few artists whose music can be found on emusic.