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 ...

The Weeknd claims four U.K. charting albums this week, as After Hours, Starboy, The Highlights, and Hurry Up Tomorrow all return together. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 13: Abel Tesfaye attends Lionsgate's ...

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 artist currently known as The Weeknd has spent the last 15 years building his reputation as the “dark prince of pop.” Starting as an enigmatic artist who released his songs anonymously, The Weeknd ...

A man of many faces, from the digital mask of anonymity on his mixtape breakout “House of Balloons” to the plastic surgery prosthetics circa “After Hours,” Abel Tesfaye has announced he’ll soon retire ...

Tesfaye might have been content to play in his creation's personal Sodom forever, were it not for the rise of streaming and its effects on the acts of listening and discovery. The fully anonymous ...

In the words of Uproxx’s hip-hop editor Aaron Williams, The Weeknd is one of today’s greatest conceptual artists. If you’re looking for evidence to support this claim, just dive into her latest album ...

The Weeknd performed his first Nashville show in nearly a decade at Nissan Stadium, incorporating a cinematic apocalyptic set. The concert featured a 41-song setlist spanning his album trilogy and ...

A man of many faces, from the digital mask of anonymity on his mixtape breakout "House of Balloons" to the plastic surgery prosthetics circa "After Hours," Abel Tesfaye has announced he'll soon retire ...