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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From flames and fireworks to smoke machines and strobe lights, The Weeknd performed the show of a lifetime to a sold-out MetLife ...

Three albums by The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness, The Highlights, and After Hours — all return to the same chart, while The Highlights reaches a huge milestone. ATLANTIC CITY, NEW ...

“Wash me with your fire, who else has to pay for my sins?” sings Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye on the title track of his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow. The song — a moody, synthy ballad — is an apologia of ...

On Friday, The Weeknd will release his sixth album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. It arrives four months ahead of a film starring and co-written by the singer-songwriter based on the record. Whether the movie — ...

After a weeklong delay, The Weeknd dropped a new album Thursday night. "Hurry Up Tomorrow" is the third and final chapter in The Weeknd's "After Hours" trilogy, and he announced a corresponding tour ...

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 ...

One of pop music's biggest stars is calling it quits — well, kind of . . . The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is wrapping up his three-album journey of self-discovery and annihilation with ...

Depending on who you ask, Abel Tesfaye — better known by his stage name, The Weeknd — is either a poetic musical genius or a drug-addled lothario. To his credit, this duality is Tesfaye’s doing. He’s ...

For The Weeknd, tomorrow has finally arrived. Abel Tesfaye – the Canadian superstar who performs under the moniker The Weeknd – released his sixth studio album “Hurry Up Tomorrow” on Friday, which ...

Surprises include five nods for breakout hardcore group Turnstile and "Golden" from 'KPop Demon Hunters' landing a song of the year and pop duo nomination, joined by "Defying Gravity" from 'Wicked' in ...