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There may not be a pop star alive who commits as fully to a new album era as the Weeknd. Ever since his pre-fame mixtapes, Abel Tesfaye has crafted each release and the visuals that go with it to feel like a cohesive, self-contained world. As budgets rise and the …

The Weeknd gets in a gruesome confrontation with his older self in the new video for “Gasoline,” off his latest album, Dawn FM. Like the clip for “Sacrifice,” the Matilda Finn-directed “Gasoline” video is primarily set in the midst of a wild yet disturbing dance party, which the Weeknd’s old …

Kanye West‘s Donda launched with the biggest first-week debut of 2021, as his new set amassed more than 341 million streams and close to 37,000 sales. With nearly 313,000 album-equivalent units, Donda passed Olivia Rodrigo‘s Sour, which earned around 302,000 units back in June, along with high-flying debuts from Taylor …

The Weeknd is developing a new HBO series alongside Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. The singer, also known as Abel Tesfaye, will star in, co-write, and executive-produce the show, according to Deadline. The series will follow a female pop singer who starts a romance with “an enigmatic L.A. club owner who …

The Weeknd has released a remix of “Blinding Lights” for the song’s one-year anniversary, featuring Rosalía. Rosalía sings the first verse of the remix in Spanish and later joins the Weeknd in harmonizing on the chorus. The remix also includes an additional outro by the Barcelona pop star: “Y llega, …

UPDATE: Diplo and the Weeknd have both responded to the latter’s previous comments on Usher’s “Climax.” “The production on Climax lends itself to House of Balloons era The Weeknd,” Diplo tweeted on Thursday. When I heard those early records they blew my mind – soulful in their silences, and a …

The Weeknd remained at the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the second week in a row as he pulled in 144.8 million streams for the week of March 27th through April 2nd. The pop star’slatest album After Hours did just enough to stay at Number One …

In the streaming era, major hits tend to be sluggish: Between 2012 and 2017, the average tempo of the 25 most-streamed tracks on Spotify fell by 23 beats per minute, to 90.5 b.p.m.. Why? There are plenty of theories: the utter and total dominance of southern hip-hop, which revels in …