The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" continues to make history. On Sunday (Aug. 31), Spotify announced on Instagram that the 2020 megahit has officially become the first song in the streaming platform's ...

For a while now, Abel Tesfaye has been saying that he wants to stop releasing music as the Weeknd. Last year, however, he said that he might not be done with the Weeknd after all. And at a show in Rio ...

The Weeknd has enlisted filmmaker Gaspar Noé to direct the new music video for his Hurry Up Tomorrow collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, “Big Sleep.” The video prominently features Noé’s signature ...

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 ...

The Weeknd has reached a milestone that no artist before him has achieved. He is now the first artist in Spotify history to have 30 different songs each surpass one billion streams. The achievement ...