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 ...

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 is the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners in Spotify history. Prior to these mainstream milestones, singer Abel Tesfaye entered the music industry in an unorthodox way.

One of the buzziest songs recently circulating on TikTok and climbing the Spotify charts featured the familiar voices of best-selling artists Drake and the Weeknd. But there's a twist: Drake and the ...

Drake is hip-hop’s reigning king of the cosign. Whether you see him as a wave-stealing opportunist or a person who really cares about helping new artists get their proper shine, Aubrey has assisted in ...

During his London performance on the European leg of his After Hours Til Dawn tour, The Weeknd wore an MF Doom-inspired mask. However, many fans on social media were not feeling it. This isn't the ...

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 ...

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 ...