after signing a management contract with producer hadii sharara and moving from australia to lebanon at 19 years old', richii released his first single "dayeb wehyatik" with an accompanying music video. the song became the #1 most requested song on the melodyarabia song charts. for a number of weeks in the summer of 2009. "dayeb wehyatik" was featured in an episode of the lbc tv drama series "no2tet 7ub". because of his young image and pop music style, some people portrayed him to be the "lebanese justin bieber".