The hit leads Billboard's 100-position Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century retrospective. Below, find a breakdown of the 2000-24 top 10. By Trevor Anderson The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” ...

As the story goes, Abel Tesfaye didn’t like his name, so he went out and changed it. After learning of a Canadian rock band of the same name, he altered the spelling, becoming The Weeknd. Now, the ...

In 2024, The Weeknd became the first artist with 21 songs to surpass the one billion streaming count on Spotify after ...

The post The Weeknd shares new songs “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights”: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The Weeknd has shared the first two tracks from a “new brain melting psychotic ...

The Weeknd doesn’t get buried by his sadness, but rides out those feelings into tidal waves of scorched-earth funk and robo-dystopian balladery. Songs like “Wasted Times” and “Try Me” suggest the ...

For nearly a year, The Weeknd has breathed life into his last two albums (2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM) on his After Hours Til Dawn tour. The stadium excursion exists in a post-apocalyptic ...

The Weeknd continues to pump out new music from his recently-premiered HBO series The Idol. Out today (June 9) are “The Lure (Main Theme),” written and produced by the Weeknd and Mike Dean, and the ...

If you've been listening to The Weeknd's long-awaited fourth studio album, After Hours, you should know there's more heartbreak where that came from. A little over a week after releasing the enigmatic ...

The Weeknd has been making headlines a lot lately. First the Grammys snubbed the chart-topping singer. And then The Weeknd took the stage at Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Fla. But what music did he actually ...

Calvin Harris featuring The Weeknd “Over Now” This might technically be Calvin Harris featuring The Weeknd, but there’s no mistaking who who that soft-voiced, red-jacketed man at the center of the ...

Ten days after its release, The Weeknd seems determined to make sure his new album “After Hours” is a gift that keeps giving: At the stroke of midnight ET, he added three previously unreleased songs ...

The Weeknd was tasked with naming which five of his songs defined him best during his new interview with Esquire. Interestingly, no tracks from his 2018 EP, My Dear Melancholy, made the list. This ...