“Yesterday was fourteen years ago… We held our breath, falling into a shimmering sea in the after hours of the night… Attempted to cleanse the wounds with melodies and lights, a bulletproof bandage to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow rebounds on four U.K. charts after ...

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 ...

On Sept. 3, 2022, on what was intended to be the final date of his exhausting “After Hours Til Dawn” North American tour, the Weeknd confidently took the stage of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The focus at the moment when it comes to The Weeknd is on his new ...

The Weeknd is one of those artists that is held to a higher standard whenever he drops a new project. In his almost 15-year ...

The Weeknd will kickstart 2025 with a new album and celebratory concert in California. “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the final chapter in a trilogy that includes 2020’s “After Hours” and 2022’s “Dawn FM,” ...

At midnight Jan. 31, I was sitting in the passenger seat of my friend’s car. We were parked in front of our apartment building, and in the back seat was another friend of ours. We had no intention of ...

In previous interviews, Tesfaye has hinted that this album will be the last under his “the Weeknd” moniker, and that he intends to “kill” the character. “The album I’m working on now is probably my ...

Looking back on 2025, the year was marked by perseverance and especially uncertainty–perhaps left everyone feeling fatigued ...

Hurry Up Tomorrow, the forthcoming studio album from the Weeknd, will mark the end of his latest musical trilogy. The release date for the record has yet to be revealed, but it will follow 2020’s ...