Producer Umair Tahir, known mononymously as Umair, is having a massive December, and he\u2019s chosen to celebrate it by getting a little sentimental with the people who put him there.<\/p>\n
A day after Spotify released its annual Wrapped rankings, confirming that Umair is officially the second most-streamed artist in Pakistan for the second year in a row, the producer took to Instagram with a carousel that felt equal parts victory lap and diary entry. Think year-in-review highlights, behind-the-scenes snapshots, and the kind of handwritten notes you\u2019d normally tuck between the pages of a well-worn journal.<\/p>\n
But this time, he wanted the world to read them.<\/p>\n
In his note \u2014 addressed simply to \u201cMy People\u201d \u2014 Umair admitted he didn\u2019t know where to begin. \u201cThis sentence still feels unreal to write,\u201d he said, reflecting on his back-to-back ranking. \u201cFor the second year in a row, I\u2019m the 2nd most-streamed artist in my country.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Rs200 earphones to national charts, the producer took fans back to 2016, when he had \u201cno idea\u201d where the journey would go. He wrote about friends who pushed him forward, listeners who \u201cpress play and turn my life into something bigger than I ever imagined,\u201d and about the gratitude he feels toward God for everything he\u2019s been given.<\/p>\n
His most emotional moment, though, came when he shared what this year allowed him to do for his family. \u201cMy mother always dreamed of having a nice, big house. This year, I was lucky enough to get her that.\u201d It\u2019s the kind of line you can practically see his fans collectively tearing up over.<\/p>\n
The note also revealed that the year wasn\u2019t all smooth sailing. Umair hinted at a personal challenge \u2014 \u201csomething I wasn\u2019t ready for\u201d \u2014 that slowed him down, but ultimately stitched him back together. \u201cJust know I\u2019m better now. My heart\u2019s in the right place again,\u201d he wrote, reassuring fans who often speculate quietly when their favourite artists disappear for a bit.<\/p>\n
He ended the note on a promise: there\u2019s new music on the way. \u201cI made so many songs this year that I can\u2019t wait for y\u2019all to hear,\u201d he wrote. And if Wrapped season proved anything, it\u2019s that his listeners are more than ready to hit play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Producer Umair Tahir, known mononymously as Umair, is having a massive December, and he\u2019s chosen to celebrate it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-176760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}