The Weeknd’s Thursday and Echoes of Silence debut on U.K. charts for the first time, while House of Balloons returns to a new peak, proving his early work still resonates. SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - ...

You can hear traces of his DNA everywhere. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy In the months following the release of 2011’s House of Balloons, no one knew much of anything about ...

The Weeknd’s “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with a staggering 490,500 equivalent album units, making it the biggest debut of 2025. That marks the largest week for any ...

As a greatest hits album, The Highlights is not typical as it features no new music or even any rerecordings. Instead, the album presents a list of The Weeknd’s songs that defined the years they came ...

Blinding Lights” becomes the first song to hit five billion streams on Spotify. Learn how the record-breaking single ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. In 2015, The Weeknd secured back-to-back chart-toppers with “Can’t ...

The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) is no longer an enigma in music. The Canadian singer has embraced his newfound fame after inking a major label deal last year with Universal Republic. His latest ...

It’s been a few months since The Weeknd dropped his sixth album Dawn FM, and since then the project is still one of this year’s best releases. He’s promoted the project with a few videos and he’s set ...

In the same way that Travis Scott’s debut full-length “Rodeo” polished the sound of his early mixtapes, “Utopia” rejuvenates Travis Scott’s discography. Years in the making, the album expands his ...

“As an artist, you have to know that you can’t please everybody,” The Weeknd recently said. He was speaking to Interview Magazine about The Idol, his soon-to-debut HBO drama that was at the center of ...