Including sales figures for his upcoming 2026 dates across Mexico, Brazil, Europe and the UK, the tour has now sold more than 7.5 million tickets and grossed over $1 billion across 153 dates. The tour ...

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The Weeknd has enlisted filmmaker Gaspar Noé to direct the new music video for his Hurry Up Tomorrow collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, “Big Sleep.” The video prominently features Noé’s signature ...

Watch out, South Florida — Starboy has officially landed. The Weeknd, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter behind hits like “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Blinding Lights,” and “One of the Girls,” has ...

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter the Weeknd is in contract to buy a waterfront Gables Estates mansion that’s on the market for $54.9 million, sources told The Real Deal. The Weeknd, whose legal name ...

MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry. Stat Of the Week is supported by music data analytics firm Chartmetric. ...

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is the record that keeps on giving. The 2019 track has officially become the first song in Spotify’s history to hit a whopping five billion streams. Just days earlier, ...

The Canadian R&B sensation has shattered digital music boundaries as Blinding Lights becomes Spotify’s first track to eclipse 5 billion streams, establishing an unprecedented benchmark in the ...

Several years on, the IFPI’s annual global top-singles chart showed the enduring appeal of The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’. Now it has become the first song to reach the milestone of 5bn streams on ...

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” continues to make history. On Sunday (Aug. 31), Spotify announced on Instagram that the 2020 megahit has officially become the first song in the streaming platform’s ...