His single "Blinding Lights" was the most streamed song on Spotify in 2020. Īmong the world's best-selling musical artists with over 75 million records sold, Tesfaye is also one of the most-streamed artists on Spotify. His fourth studio album After Hours (2020) featured the worldwide chart record-setting single " Blinding Lights", and the number-one singles " Heartless" and " Save Your Tears". Starboy also won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album. Tesfaye's third studio album Starboy (2016) was a similar commercial success and included the number-one single of the same name. With the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " Can't Feel My Face" and " The Hills", Beauty Behind the Madness won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. It topped the US Billboard 200 and was among the best-selling albums of that year. Tesfaye gained major critical and commercial success with his second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). His critically acclaimed single " Earned It", from the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards. His debut studio album Kiss Land was released in 2013. In 2012, Tesfaye signed with Republic Records and re-released the mixtapes in the compilation album Trilogy.
He quickly earned a following and recognition from several mainstream publications due to his dark style of contemporary R&B and the mystique surrounding his identity. Two years later, he co-founded the XO record label and released the critically acclaimed mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence. īorn and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Tesfaye began his recording career in 2009 by anonymously releasing music on YouTube. He has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including three Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, nineteen Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, fifteen Juno Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
Noted for his distinctive singing voice with a soaring falsetto and its singular tremolo, Tesfaye is considered an influential figure in contemporary popular music. UPDATE: “Take My Breath” is out Friday.Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Everyone’s like, “No, just do better next time.” I will do better, but not for you. I’ll never be in that conversation ever again… And I’m glad that I can make music and not have to think about that. Because that will never be the reason why I do what I do. But now, looking back at it, I never want to know what really happened… I was angry and I was confused and I was sad. When happened, I had all these ideas and thoughts. So that sounds pretty good! Elsewhere in the interview, the Weeknd reiterates his stance that he’ll never submit his music to the Grammys again: Drenched-suit, grinding-on-the-girl/boy-of-your-dreams party records. (Not “cosplay,” as Abel put it.) That sort of retro thing is having a moment right now in pop music, but these records are new. Quincy Jones meets Giorgio Moroder meets the best-night-of-your-fucking-life party records. Like real-deal, illuminated-white-tiles-on-the-floor party records. The new project is packed with party records. The music hit the studio like a Mack truck. In a new GQ cover story that went up this morning, the Weeknd says that his next album is “the album I’ve always wanted to make.” He also plays a few tracks for writer Mark Anthony Green, who cautions that the new album isn’t finished yet but who still says rapturous things about it: The clip definitely sounds like an extended intro, and it barely has any of the Weeknd’s vocals, but it promises some very cool things coming. It sounds like Daft Punk remaking the Miami Vice theme music. And just being real here: It sounds pretty fucking awesome. The accompanying video shows a sunrise on some psychedelic CGI planet. On Twitter last night, the Weeknd wrote, “fuck it … IT STARTS TONIGHT.” He then posted a two-minute preview of a bleary, thumping new track called “Take My Breath” the teaser is titled “The Dawn Is Coming” on YouTube. And it appears that we won’t have to wait too long before that next album arrives. The Weeknd was a star before all this, but he’s at a new peak right now, and his next album is poised to be a very, very big deal.
He’s producing and starring in his own HBO show. In the past few months, the Weeknd played the Super Bowl Halftime Show and convinced the Grammys to change its rules. The LP spun off three #1 hits, including “ Blinding Lights,” which broke chart records and which Billboard named the biggest single of 2020. After Hours is now double platinum, and it was one of the biggest albums of 2020. Last year, the Weeknd released After Hours.
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