What is Alan Walker doing in Pakistan?
English-Norwegian DJ and record producer Alan Walker is in Pakistan and he sure seems to be spending a lot of time with viral sensations Hamza Malik and Zain Zohaib in Lahore.
Other than eating halwa puri and taking in the majestic Lahore Fort, Walker teased a video on his social media accounts on Wednesday saying “more to come soon”, with ‘Alfaaz’, the hit song by Malik, Zain Ali and Zohaib Ali playing over it.
Malik on his Instagram stories shared a picture of Walker wearing a shawl with the word alfaaz on it in Urdu script. “There’s another surprise as well,” he wrote.
The ‘Faded’ producer also posted a story on his Instagram with the Pakistani singers with the caption, “BTW, it was a very productive day.”
Walker in a video shared by Giraffe Studios says: “I just got to Lahore and it’s beautiful here, and I’m about to go to the studio to work on some music.”
The video itself mentions “a dream collaboration”.
Could Walker’s visit have anything to do with the uber-popular song which is topping charts left and right?
On Monday, the track was placed at the top of the weekly music chart from Genius — a website which claims to be the world’s largest collection of song lyrics.
The song was joined on the list by works from popular Western artists like Tate McRae, Eminem and Radiohead.
‘Alfaaz’ also maintained a commanding position on Spotify’s charts, holding the top spot on daily charts from both Pakistan and India and placing 42nd on the platform’s Top 50 - Global list on Wednesday.
An earlier press release from Giraffe Studios — the studio behind the song — called its success “unprecedented” for a Pakistani song and called it an “example of how far a song can travel when it finds its audience”.
‘Alfaaz’ has also kept its position in second place on the UK’s Indian-dominated Official Asian Music Chart.
This is the studio’s second chart-topper after Sheheryar Rehan and Zoha Waseem’s ‘Majboor’ last year, which also topped Spotify’s Pakistan chart and peaked at second place on the India chart.
Giraffe said both songs were “different stories, shaped by different artists and trajectories, but together they reflect the possibilities that emerge when compelling music meets the right audience and continues to find new ones”.
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