Of Hurry Up Tomorrow ’s 490,500 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 359,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top ...

The modern culture that has taken to Wessely most conclusively is music.

As The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye has moved through a lifetime of career roles, from alt-R&B unknown to now being one of the most dominant and successful pop masterminds right now. With the release of ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd brings both The Highlights and After Hours back to the same chart in the U.K., just days ... [+] before Hurry Up Tomorrow ...

The Weeknd's The Highlights has now spent 208 weeks on the U.K.'s albums chart, a first for the ... [+] Hurry Up Tomorrow superstar. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 02: The Weeknd performs ...

In an unexpected reconciliation, The Weeknd is back at the Grammys. The Grammy-winning R&B star, who previously boycotted the awards show after being snubbed in 2021, gave a surprise performance ...

The Weeknd surprised attendees and viewers of the 2025 Grammy Awards with an unexpected performance during Sunday night's ceremony. The four-time Grammy winner has been publicly boycotting the ...

And so, around 2016, as visibility became key to listenership, Tesfaye changed tactics, following the fork in the road toward Neverland Ranch. The pivot worked, turning The Weeknd into an edgy ...

The pivot worked, turning The Weeknd into an edgy manifestation of pop's baser instincts. But exposing the vampiric character to the light came with complications. By the end of the decade ...

The Weeknd has donated more than $10 million to multiple charitable causes in the past five years, from coronavirus relief to Gaza humanitarian aid to Los Angeles wildfire recovery, and he stepped ...

The Weeknd announced a world tour last week, but that wasn’t the only news. The singer ended his four-year boycott of the Grammys on Sunday, when he took to the stage at the awards show to perform.