![]() ![]() With the lead single, Call Out My Name, the Canadian singer earned the largest first-day Spotify stream count of any song released in 2018 at that time and his eighth Top 10 entry on Hot 100. Next came the My Dear Melancholy EP, released on Maand revolving around his breakups with Bella Hadid during summer of 2016 and Selena Gomez in October 2017. The effort was a commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 albums chart with over 348,000 copies sold in its first week, all eighteen tracks debuting on the Billboard Hot 100, receiving a GRAMMY Award for the Best Urban Contemporary Album, category at the 60th annual ceremony, overall for the second time in his music career and being ranked as the third most popular album of 2017 in the U.S. The Daft Punk-assisted title track led the project as its first official single, released on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, before becoming his third number one track in the United States, as also his home country, Canada. His third studio album, Starboy, was released on November 25, 2016. Beauty Behind the Madness was released on August 28, 2015. His second studio album became highly-anticipated, with riveting singles like The Hills and Can’t Feel My Face leaving fans hungry for more. In 2014, he dropped “Often,” a remix of Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love,” and “King of the Fall.” The Weeknd released two songs in collaboration with the film Fifty Shades of Grey, with Earned It becoming his solo breakout hit. In 2013, he released Kiss Land, which was considered to be his debut studio album. The Weeknd gained widespread critical acclaim for his three mixtapes: House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, which he later compiled to make a remastered, three-disc album titled Trilogy after signing his record deal with Republic. The letter E was excluded to avoid trademark problems with the Canadian band The Weekend. However, his estranged former producer Jeremy Rose claims the name was his idea. He chose his stage name in tribute to when he was 17 years old, when, along with his friend La Mar Taylor, he dropped out of high school, took his mattress, and "left one weekend and never came home". Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd (born Februin Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian R&B/hip-hop musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. ![]()
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