Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd’s House of Balloons reenters the Billboard 200 at No.

20 year old Abel Tesfaye comes from Toronto, Canada and is about to blow up. I just know he is. He has to. Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd uploaded three songs: ‘What You Need’, ‘Loft Music’ and ‘The ...

The Weeknd is essentially a one-man band comprised of Toronto-based, Canadian singer/songwriter Abel Tesfaye. On "Loft Music" he sings about being 20 years old, so we're gonna go ahead assume he's 20.

It's been a little more than two years since the Weeknd released his last album, the excellent Dawn FM. He's been plenty busy since then -- touring, making a bad TV show, feuding with Drake, etc. Now, ...

Abel Tesfaye has long been planning a funeral for his alter ego, The Weeknd. Having suggested his next record might be his last using that moniker, recent teasers for his new music seem to have kicked ...

In July, more than 420,000 people competed for tickets to The Weeknd‘s highly anticipated show in São Paulo, Brazil, scheduled for Saturday (Sept. 7) and just under a year after his last visit to the ...

The Weeknd is supporting his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow on a stadium tour now, and he just hit the NYC area on Thursday night (6/5) for the first of three shows at MetLife Stadium. There were ...

For nearly a year, The Weeknd has breathed life into his last two albums (2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM) on his After Hours Til Dawn tour. The stadium excursion exists in a post-apocalyptic ...

From flames and fireworks to smoke machines and strobe lights, The Weeknd performed the show of a lifetime to a sold-out MetLife Stadium. The Weeknd, also known as Abel Tesfaye, returned to MetLife ...

The Weeknd is one of only two artists with over 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Any music he puts out will get listened to by the masses, no matter what. But, that doesn’t mean there aren’t ...

Nowadays, everyone from Jimmy Fallon to Janelle Monáe to Shaq has a haunt. But the most auteur horror experience of the 2024 Halloween season comes from the twisted mind that brought you The Idol: ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. In just under a year, Abel Tesfaye, aka The ...