Just as he promised, The Weeknd just dropped his new video for “Party Monster,” and boy is it a trip! 2017 is shaping up to be another big year for Abel. It’s been announced he’ll be one of the artists headlining the Bonnaroo festival. He’s also sharing the cover of the February issue of GQ […]

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If you let The Weeknd tell it, he owes a lot of his success to weed and Hennessy.

We heard it would happen and really had no doubts ‘Starboy’ would debut at the number one spot, but the total number of copies moved is quite shocking. The Weeknd destroyed the competition selling 348,000 albums and scoring the third-largest opening week of the year behind Drake’s ‘Views’ (1.04 million units) and Beyoncé’s ‘LEMONADE’ (653,000 […]

As November 25 quickly approaches, Abel Tesfaye — aka The Weeknd — continues to poise himself for the release of his forthcoming album, Starboy. Tesfaye dropped off the album’s tracklist and two new singles yesterday. On “Party Monster,” The Weeknd taps previous collaborator Lana Del Rey (additional vocals around the 3:15 mark) for another quintessential ode to party life […]

With his fourth LP Starboy dropping later this month, The Weeknd sat down with the Wall Street Journal to talk about his growth in the industry, his humble beginnings, and the inspirations behind the new album. Abel Tesfaye’s last project, The Beauty Behind The Madness, came out last fall, and with the singles still getting […]

Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, has dropped the first single from his forthcoming project.