She previously worked on the Britannica Book of... Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [95] Tesfaye appeared on Saturday Night Live alongside actress Amy Schumer, performing as the show's musical guest on October 10. [36], Tesfaye began a tour of Toronto, with his first live performance at the city's Mod Club venue. [27][31] The songs subsequently received coverage from various media outlets, including Pitchfork and The New York Times. [67] Days later, he released "Earned It", a single from Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). [52][53] Trilogy was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and double-platinum by Music Canada in May 2013. [255] Tesfaye denied the allegations. The tour was held across the United States in September and October, and saw Schoolboy Q and Jhené Aiko as supporting acts. In addition, “Earned It,” which was included on the sound track of the film Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), was nominated for an Academy Award in 2016. [247] On November 2, 2020, the University of Toronto announced that after having worked with Tesfaye again, they were able to reach and surpass their goal of $500,000 for their Ethiopic program with Tesfaye donating $30,000. [61], Tesfaye appeared on the 20/20 Experience World Tour, joining headline act Justin Timberlake for six shows. [220], Tesfaye often used drugs to help get over his writer's block on earlier albums, and also abused illegal substances such as "ketamine, cocaine, MDMA, mushrooms, and cough syrup". [41] Tesfaye's third mixtape Echoes of Silence was released on December 21, 2011, a year after his debut singles. [24][223] He later altered the handles on his social media to reflect his stage name in preparation for the release of Starboy. "[143] On November 5, 2020, Maluma released the "Hawái" remix featuring Tesfaye. [144] He also debuted three live performances on Vevo in November 2020,[145] and performed at iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball alongside other artists on December 10, 2020.[146]. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from The Weeknd at the Discogs Marketplace. [118] Later in the year, on November 21, 2018, the compilation album The Weeknd in Japan was released and served as his first greatest hits album. [148] Speculation arose that the announcement of his then-upcoming Super Bowl performance as well as the discrepancy of being nominated as pop music versus R&B contributed to the snubs. [8] In 2012, he signed with Republic Records and re-released the mixtapes in the compilation album Trilogy (2012). [166] He has attributed Jackson's music as key in spurring him to be a singer, referencing the lyrics to "Dirty Diana" as an example. The EP consists of 10 tracks, some of which influenced his debut mixtape, House of Balloons. Omissions? 1 on the Billboard 200, Hot 100 & Artist 100", "American Dad!' [227][228][229] Despite having previously worked in the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto,[230] Tesfaye and Belly cancelled an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! [100] On the same day, Tesfaye also announced a collaboration with Norwegian record producer Cashmere Cat, titled "Wild Love". The Weeknd, has hall smoldering", "The Weeknd Worried Album Release was Insensitive", "How The Weeknd became R&B's next big thing", "r/singing – How is The Weeknd (Abel Testaye) singing? [17] Tesfaye has viewed that, by singing vulgar, ignorant lyrics in an elegant, sexy way, he is paying homage to R. 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[199] In May 2017, Tesfaye had a limited edition pop up sale for the "Starboy 2017 Limited Capsule Collection". She has a B.A. Rose produced three songs – "What You Need", "Loft Music", and "The Morning" – and others that Tesfaye had rapped on, which were ultimately scrapped. It was launched in early November, with the final collection made available to coincide with the release of his album Starboy. [71] The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making it Tesfaye's first diamond-certified record.[72]. Corrections? A year later, the Weeknd released the mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, and quickly earned a following and critical recognition from several mainstream publications due to his dark style of R&B and the mystique surrounding his identity. [149] In response to the controversy, the Academy chairman Harvey Mason Jr. issued a statement: We understand that The Weeknd is disappointed at not being nominated. [27] House of Balloons was met with critical acclaim. [32], On March 21, 2011, Tesfaye self-released his debut mixtape House of Balloons. [232] When asked about his religious beliefs in 2020, Tesfaye said "I dunno". Her album Punisher was high on many critics’ Best Of 2020 lists and its apocalyptic (and maddeningly catchy) single I Know The End has become the year’s unofficial lockdown anthem. 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They appeared as a couple at the 2016 Grammy Awards. [157] Despite having a mixed response,[158][159][160][161][162][163] the show resulted in a surge in streaming and downloads for Tesfaye's After Hours album as well as for the seven other songs he performed. The Weeknd’s next three hit singles, “Earned It,” “The Hills,” and “Can’t Feel My Face,” were featured on Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). [50] It also officially credited Rose as a producer and writer on the three songs from House of Balloons for which he did not initially receive credit. The Weeknd stated in his Billboard ... out the 2017 Grammy Awards and decided to not submit his highly acclaimed 2016 LP and Billboard 200 No. The cinematic and introspective After Hours (2020) was critically praised and, like his previous release, debuted at the top of the charts. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Biggest Week of 2020", "nothing compares, missed you, final lullaby...", "The Weeknd on Being the First Artist to Top These 5 Charts at Once: 'It Feels Like a Huge Blessing' (Exclusive)", "The Weeknd also repeats at No. [195] Tesfaye has collaborated with artists and designers such as Kidult, Alexander Wang[200] and Futura[201] for small-lived and sometimes exclusive capsule collections. ", "Is The Weeknd Dropping A New Album This Week? His vocal range reaches its extreme low at the bass F (F2), and its peak high at the tenor G♯ (G♯5), with a natural tessitura within the upper fourth octave. [37] Drake approached Tesfaye and described a potential musical collaboration between the pair. His debut studio album, Kiss Land, was released in 2013. [257] The plaintiffs filed an amended claim based on secondary infringement, which is still in litigation. [125], On November 24, 2019, "Blinding Lights", the expected lead single of his fourth studio album, was announced via a Mercedes-Benz commercial on German television. He said that he often shoplifted to supplement his drug use. [96] This was his first performance on the show as a solo artist, after appearing with Ariana Grande to perform "Love Me Harder". [235] In May 2016 Tesfaye donated $50,000 to the St. Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Toronto, Canada, a church he attended growing up. [179] Mistry writes that he "will be obsequiously praised as the future of R&B music—because [he] is a black singer, not because he's making quantifiable, canonical R&B". [82][83] The album was promoted by Tesfaye headlining various summer music festivals, including Lollapalooza, the Hard Summer Music Festival, and the Bumbershoot Festival. [18] In an interview, he detailed that he began growing it out in 2011 and remarked at how easy it was to maintain with "a hard shampoo every once in a while". [213] On November 11, 2016, it was reported that the couple had split due to their conflicting schedules. [85][86] The album went double platinum in the US, and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. He says that they were demos that he had written as a teenager to try and get recognition. Ring in the new year with a Britannica Membership, https://www.britannica.com/biography/the-Weeknd. with a double major in Spanish and in theatre arts from Ripon College. [240] With the profit, Tesfaye donated $500,000 each to MusiCares and $500,000 to his hometown front-line hospital workers of the Scarborough Health Network in Ontario, Canada for a total of $1 million to COVID-19 relief. [261], Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Widely expected to receive multiple nominations for After Hours, Tesfaye was shut out of any nominations for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (2021). "[234] In August 2016 he continued donations to the University in the creation of a new Ethiopic Studies program. [204] In August 2018, XO released a collection of apparel in collaboration with A Bathing Ape. 5 Things You Should Know", "5 '80s & '90s Artists Who May Have Inspired The Weeknd's New Haircut", "The Weeknd Reveals How He Got His Name... 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[68], After Tesfaye won the Centric Award at the 2015 BET Awards, he performed "Earned It" with Alicia Keys, as well as debuting the song "The Hills". The Weeknd may be enjoying the ongoing Hot 100 top 10 success of hits found aboard his fourth studio album, 2020's 'After Hours,' but he's been in … The Weeknd's third album Starboy (2016) was a similar commercial success and included the number-one single of the same name, and also won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. [150], In January 2021, Tesfaye responded by saying that his previous Grammy awards are of no value to him any more. "[18], Tesfaye described his teenage years as being like the film "Kids without the AIDS". Three weeks later, on August 28, he released the single "Over Now" with Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris. [64] The remix was well-received, and came days prior to the announcement of Tesfaye's first headlining tour, entitled the King of the Fall tour. [18] He grew up listening to a variety of music genres, including soul, hip hop, funk, indie rock, and post-punk. Patricia Bauer is an Assistant Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for quality works on albums in the urban contemporary subgenre within the R&B field. In 2019 The Weeknd made his feature-film debut, appearing as himself in the crime dramedy Uncut Gems, which starred Adam Sandler. [74][75] He occupied all three slots on Billboard's Hot R&B Songs chart simultaneously with the aforementioned singles, becoming the first artist in history to accomplish this. [233], After being presented with a Bikila Award for Professional Excellence in 2014, Tesfaye donated $50,000 to the University of Toronto to help them start a course on Ge'ez, the classic language of Ethiopia. It also debuted at number five on the Canadian Albums Chart, with similar sales. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). [130] The second single "Blinding Lights" went on to debut at number 11 on Billboard Hot 100 the same week "Heartless" topped it, fell to number 52 in its second week, and then after a long climb reached number one on the chart on the issue dated April 4, 2020. [51] Trilogy charted at number four on the U.S. He also performed the song at the 88th Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Original Song. [17] Tesfaye often sings in a falsetto register,[171] exhibiting an enticing tone. [17], His emotional, plaintive lyrics often express feelings of hurt and deal with subject matter such as sex,[169] drugs, and partying. [174] His music incorporates samples that are unconventional in R&B production, including punk and alternative rock. [40] This was credited[by whom?] He just wasn't there. Unfortunately, every year, there are fewer nominations than the number of deserving artists. [54][55] He had also gained a nomination for the Sound of 2013 poll award by the BBC a week later. 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[241], In the context of media outlets reporting cases of police brutality, in 2016, he expressed disdain, tweeting "blue lives murder". [9], The Weeknd's third album Starboy (2016) was a similar commercial success and included the number-one single of the same name, and also won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. The Weeknd bores at halftime", "The Weeknd's Streams Increase 41% After Super Bowl Halftime Show", "The Weeknd's Sales Up 385% After Super Bowl Halftime Show", "The Weeknd: Kiss And Tell (2013 Cover Story)", "Review: Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. Updates? It was announced that 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the masks will be donated to the relief fund. You can hear it as far back as my first mixtape that the '80s – Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins – play such a huge role in my sound. [253] One of the producers of the song was alleged to have sent a private Twitter message to Tom Raybould, the composer of the film's score, to tell him about the sample. On January 31, 2018, Top Dawg Entertainment revealed the full tracklist of the Kendrick Lamar-curated Black Panther soundtrack album[111] with Tesfaye featured on one of the tracks, "Pray for Me". The latter proved to be the second lead single from the soundtrack. He was awarded the Allan Slaight Award by Canada's Walk of Fame. [147] Tesfaye took to his social media to criticize the Recording Academy, claiming corruption. [176] Anupa Mistry of the Toronto Standard observes throughout his mixtapes a "cast of supine, stoned zombie-women ... whose legs willingly part after being plied with substances and who morph into threats only when [he is] coming down and feeling vulnerable". [27] The spelling was modified in order to avoid trademark problems with the Canadian band the Weekend. He was later featured on Lil Uzi Vert's debut album and Gucci Mane's eleventh studio album Mr. Davis. On February 2, 2018, it was released as the soundtrack's third single. [177], Tesfaye's musical style has been described as R&B,[17][43][178] alternative R&B,[178][43][179] pop,[178][43] electropop,[178] and synth-pop. [128] In promotion of the upcoming album, episode seven of the Weeknd's manager Cash's Memento Mori Beats 1 radio show was released on November 27, 2019. Beauty Behind the Madness was released on August 28, 2015, and debuted atop the Billboard 200, earning 412,000 album equivalent units in its first week. [66] He later collaborated with Ariana Grande on a duet titled "Love Me Harder", which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. [195] With this partnership, Tesfaye also released three capsule collections named PUMA X XO including T-shirts, caps, sweatpants, bomber jackets and a pair of shoes called the Parallels.[196][197]. [136] Shortly after the album release, on March 29, 2020, Tesfaye announced the release of three more previously unreleased songs: "Nothing Compares", "Missed You" and "Final Lullaby". [172] Tesfaye possesses a wide light-lyric tenor vocal range, which spans over three octaves. [84] He announced his first large-scale tour across the United States, which began in November, and concluded in December. [219] It was later reported that the two were in touch again nine months later. The Weeknd partnered with Republic Records in September 2012. [14], Abel Makkonen Tesfaye was born in Toronto, Canada on February 16, 1990, the son of Ethiopian immigrants Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye. The Weeknd’s success continued with Starboy (2016), which featured collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and Daft Punk. [139] In April 2020, Tesfaye announced he would be co-writing and starring in an upcoming episode of American Dad!, which later premiered on May 4, 2020. [17] Hermione Hoby of The Guardian characterizes Tesfaye's songs as "narcotised-slow jams" and delineates their message as "partying is an existential experience, sex is fraught with alienation, and everything registers as unreal and unsettling". [102] He released the album's title track, which features Daft Punk on September 21. [116] On March 30, 2018, the extended play My Dear Melancholy, was released. [79] It was revealed that his second studio album would be titled Beauty Behind the Madness. Drake was in attendance to view the performance, which ran for a total of ninety minutes. as an advertising tactic for Tesfayes second mixtape Thursday, which was released on August 18, 2011. [4][5][6][7], The Weeknd began his recording career in 2010, anonymously uploading several songs to YouTube. [109] He was featured on French Montana's "A Lie", the third single from his second album Jungle Rules and on Cashmere Cat's debut single "Wild Love" from his album 9. [76] He headlined FVDED in the Park, a festival in Surrey, British Columbia. [41], Following this release, the three mixtapes were collectively known as the Balloons Trilogy,[42] and saw Tesfaye receiving offers from various record labels.[which? [80][81] It reached the top 10 in over ten countries, as well as reaching number one in Canada, Australia, Norway, and the United Kingdom. "[141] The song was featured on track five of her album Positions,[142] which released October 30, 2020. [244][235] In May 2020, in response to the killing of George Floyd, the ongoing protests in reaction, and racial violence in the United States, Tesfaye donated $500,000 to Black Lives Matter, Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp, and the National Bail Out; he also posted on his official Instagram account to spread awareness. The Weeknd performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2021. [191][192] PAX Labs chief marketing officer Richard Mumby stated "Music and fashion have always been a natural fit for Pax...This was the perfect opportunity to bring together the Weeknd's style with our technology. His music this year was excellent, and his contributions to the music community and broader world are worthy of everyone's admiration. I was surprised and can empathize with what he's feeling. He gained a Grammy nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for Starboy and ended up winning the award.[110]. [15][19][20] He was raised by his grandmother and mother after his parents split up. [60] It was later confirmed to have sold over 273,000 copies in the United States, as well as receiving generally positive reviews from music critics. The song, which marked his second contribution to a film, peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Their original suit was summarily dismissed, with the court ruling that they had failed to show that Tesfaye or anyone else involved in making "A Lonely Night" had access to their song or that the works were substantially similar. They all went platinum in the United States. [248], On April 4, 2021, Tesfaye announced that he would be donating $1 million through World Food Programme to his motherland of Ethiopia in response to the civil unrest causing the death of innocent civilians. [249], In January 2015, Tesfaye was arrested for allegedly punching an LVPD officer after he was taken into an elevator to break up a fight. The Weeknd spent $7 million of his own money — above what the NFL shelled out — to produce the halftime show. [105] Directed by Grant Singer, it featured excerpts from the album, including snippets from "All I Know" featuring Future, "Sidewalks" featuring Kendrick Lamar, "Secrets" and "Die for You". The Weeknd, byname of Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, (born February 16, 1990, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Canadian rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter who was perhaps best known for his explicit songs about sex and drugs, many of which were autobiographical, and for his soaring falsetto and its singular tremolo. He also won Grammy Awards for best R&B performance for “Earned It,” and Beauty Behind the Madness took the award for best urban contemporary album. The Weeknd subsequently asked his record company for help in crafting songs. [101] A month later, the previously mentioned album's title was announced as Starboy, and had a release date of November 25. [214] Tesfaye reportedly started dating Selena Gomez in January 2017 and they moved in together temporarily in September of that year,[215][216] but broke up a month later. In addition, he contributed to the 2011 Drake release Take Care. [224], Tesfaye's hairstyle, which has been described as his most recognizable trait, has been claimed to be partly inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat. [134] Subsequently, the album was released on March 20, 2020, containing the singles "Heartless", "Blinding Lights" and "In Your Eyes". ][43], In April 2012, Tesfaye began his first tour of the United States, with a performance at the Coachella Festival. 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