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Noah Kahan leading the way on both lists.The US singer-songwriter’s 2022 single ‘Stick Season’ enjoyed a viral resurgence towards the end of last year, and has earned 850,000 chart units in 2024 alone (via Official Charts).Additionally, the seven-week Number One is the most-streamed song of the year so far – having registered 99million plays since the start of 2024. ‘Stick Season’ has accumulated 1.4million chart units in total.Kahan achieved a second entry in the top 40 songs of the year so far run-down, with his Sam Fender-featuring version of ‘Homesick’ landing at Number 24.The musician’s 2022 third studio record, also titled ‘Stick Season’, has been named the UK’s biggest album of 2024 so far.

The Weeknd and Travis Scott joined producer Mike Dean onstage during his show in Los Angeles on Friday night (March 1) – check out the footage below.Dean played a 14-song gig at LA’s Wiltern Theatre, opening the set with ‘The Lure’ – his collaborative song with The Weeknd from the soundtrack to The Idol (per Setlist.FM).Later, The Weeknd – aka Abel Tesfaye – took to the stage to deliver a synthy cover version of ‘In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)’ from the 1977 David Lynch film Eraserhead. He then assisted on a joint rendition of his unreleased cut ‘Take Me Back To LA’.Scott – who enlisted Dean to produce on all of his studio albums, including 2023’s ‘Utopia’ – joined Dean and The Weeknd to perform their collaborative track ‘Circus Maximus’.

The Weeknd has finally shared the music video for ‘Popular’ featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti. Check it out below.The video first premiered in the game Fortnite last week.

It’s already been more than eight months since the premiere of The Idol, The Weeknd‘s widely (and overly!) loathed HBO series, co-created with Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson. Bad reviews and middling ratings led to the show’s cancellation, and like most trending topics, the show has faded from our collective cultural memory.

The Weeknd‘s massive hit single ‘Blinding Lights’ has become the first song in history to reach four billion streams on Spotify.Spotify’s most-streamed song of all time, as revealed in early 2023, appeared on Abel Tesfaye’s ‘After Hours’ album. It was released at the end of 2019, and has spent over 100 weeks in the charts.In that time, it set a new record for most weeks in the Top Five of the chart (43), Top 10 (57 weeks) and Top 40 (86 weeks), and replaced Chubby Checker’s 1960 hit ‘The Twist’ as the biggest US Billboard Hot 100 single of all time.In a statement about crossing the four billion mark, The Weeknd said: “I’ll never stop being humbled by anything I create making its way to millions of people let alone billions!“I’m so thankful this song makes people feel a way that they keep going back to listen.”Last year, The Weeknd reacted to the news that Taylor Swift is now the only other music artist with 100million Spotify listeners.Swift, who became the first female artist to reach the milestone, still currently sits behind The Weeknd, who has the most monthly listeners on the streaming service with more than 110million.Last summer, The Weeknd broke another record for highest attendance at Wembley Stadium.

Wicked movies, running her cosmetics business, and falling in love after her divorce. Somehow, in the middle of all that, she’s also found the time to write and record a new album. After weeks of teasing and hinting that something was coming, the pop superstar has officially announced her comeback single – and it’s set to arrive in just a few days.The Grammy winner took to social media to announce “Yes, And?,” posting the song’s cover to her Instagram, along with the track’s release date of Friday, January 12.

The Weeknd has teased a return to music with a sequel to ‘After Hours’ and ‘Dawn FM’.The singer – real name is Abel Tesfaye – took to his official social media accounts to tease his sixth album, hinting that the LP will mark the end of his ‘After Hours’/’Dawn FM’ trilogy.His posts featured the two album covers from 2020 and 2022 respectively, followed by a photo with a question mark. The caption for the post read “3”.A post shared by Abel Tesfaye (@theweeknd)The singer also took to X/Twitter to retweet a post that read: “Pain, regret, rebirth” with three different silhouettes of the singer, the most recent showing him as a child against a purple backdrop.pain, regret, rebirth.

Kanye West continued to give himself a bad name. Drake sunk to dragging Rihanna’s good name.And three big names — Travis Scott, Bad Bunny and The Weeknd — were a triple bust.Here are the five worst songs of 2023, from crude country and cringe rap to the Billy Joel cover that never should’ve happened.And for the 10 best songs of the year, go here.Stirring up a national firestorm in these divisive times, the country star scored his first No.

go here. Season 2 of the “Sex and the City” spinoff starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis continued to make the point that the “Sex and the City” franchise should have left well enough alone. Even John Corbett and Kim Cattrall’s brief returns couldn’t invigorate this world that’s become a pale parody of itself.

Fortnite has confirmed The Weeknd as the first headlining act for its new Festival game more.According to a press release, Fortnite Festival will be the first entirely music-focused mode to be introduced to the immensely popular battle royale game. While Fortnite itself is developed by Epic Games, the Festival game mode is being developed by Harmonix – the studio behind the Rock Band video game franchise.

The Weeknd has directed $2.5million (£1.9million) to pay for four million emergency meals in Gaza.Yesterday (November 1), the UN announced that the Canadian musician was sending the hefty donation through his XO Humanitarian Fund. The money will fund 820 metric tons of food parcels, which the UN claimed could feed more than 173,000 Palestinians for two weeks.As of December 1, the conflict has taken the lives of more than 15,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to Al Jazeera.

The Weeknd has postponed his forthcoming Australia and New Zealand stadium tour due to “unforeseen circumstances”.The singer was due to kick off his ‘After Hours til Dawn Tour’ in just two weeks at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on November 20 before calling at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium and Eden Park in Auckland over the remaining 10 shows. But they have now been pushed back.“Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must reschedule the Australia/New Zealand tour,” a statement from The Weeknd said (via IQ).

In April, an anonymous music producer known only as Ghostwriter made headlines with a song called “Heart on my Sleeve.” Using AI-assisted tools, Ghostwriter was able to create glitchy facsimiles of Drake and the Weeknd’s vocals known as “deep fakes,” bringing the two artists together for a collaboration the pair had nothing to do with. Tens of millions of TikTok plays and a Universal Music Group takedown later, he’s ready for his close-up.

face the music — and your skin will thank you for it. Vibing out to hits from the chart-topping likes of Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, SZA and Drake is no longer solely a form of funky entertainment — it’s now a means to achieving healthy skin, according to an October study on the therapeutic benefits of tranquil sounds.

Moses Sumney has been steadily releasing some of the most out-there alternative and experimental R&B music for years now, and he’s developed both a fan base and a reputation for his ability to push the boundaries of the genre and wow people with his sensual voice.One look at Sumney shows exactly how sensual he can be. While he may be best known as a musician, Sumney really popped earlier this year as one of the stars of HBO’s The Idol.The TV series, which was created by and starred The Weeknd, as well as Lily Rose-Depp, Jennie from Blackpink, and Troye Sivan, was met with lukewarm reviews and was canceled after its first season, but it still helped raise the profiles of several of the actors in it.Throughout The Idol, Sumney rarely wears a shirt.

Bizarrap, has taken the world by storm. With nearly 8 billion views on his YouTube channel, and collaborations with the biggest names in Latin music like Shakira (624M views), Peso Pluma (212M views), Residente (163M views), Nathy Peluso (382M views), and more, it’s hard to deny he could get anyone he wanted in his studio.On Thursday, the talented artist dropped a short film on YouTube, which amassed over 1.4 million views in three hours.

Drake and The Weeknd will not be eligible for Grammy consideration, the Recording Academy has ruled.According to a report in The New York Times, earlier this week, the song – ‘Heart On My Sleeve’, which was was written and produced by the anonymous producer Ghostwriter, was submitted for Grammy consideration in two categories: Best Rap Song and Song Of The Year – both of which go to the writer of a song, not the performer.The Recording Academy’s chief executive, Harvey Mason Jr., was also believed to have said the song could be eligible on creative grounds and that it is an original composition written and recorded by humans. Because of that, Mason added: “It’s absolutely eligible because it was written by a human.”But one of the requirements for submission was that the track must be “available nationwide via brick-and-mortar stores, third-party online retailers and/or streaming services” which could act as a stumbling block because it was banned by the Universal Music Group shortly after it first surfaced earlier this year.A post shared by Harvey Mason jr.

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. has posted an Instagram video walking back comments published in the New York Times yesterday expressing support for the Grammy eligibility of "Heart on My Sleeve," a song created using deepfaked voice models of Drake and the Weeknd. Criticizing what he characterized as "bad and really inaccurate information," Mason Jr.

Selena Gomez has reacted to an AI cover of The Weeknd‘s ‘Starboy’ that uses computer-generated vocals of hers.Th singer has been working on new music as well as her acting career. Last month, the third season of the hit comedy series Only Murders In The Building hit streaming services, while the 31-year-old is also set to release her next album, currently dubbed ‘SG3’, in the coming months.In June, a snippet of the AI-generated Selena Gomez cover of ‘Starboy’ started to circulate.

Drake and The Weeknd has been submitted for consideration at the Grammys.The song – ‘Heart On My Sleeve’, which was was written and produced by the anonymous producer Ghostwriter, blew up in a matter of hours and reached 13 million views on TikTok alone when it first surfaced earlier this year.On popular DSPs like Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal, the song also had hundreds of thousand streams – with over 100,000 views on YouTube before Universal Music Group banned the song.Now, a representative for Ghostwriter has confirmed to The New York Times that the track has been submitted for Grammy consideration in two categories: Best Rap Song and Song Of The Year – both of which go to the writer of a song, not the performer.hi im ghostwriter. #drake #aivoice #theweeknd #ai #aidrake #theweekndai pic.twitter.com/lUUAHC1Xw8— ghostwriter977 (@imghostwrit3r) April 16, 2023According to the Recording Academy’s chief executive, Harvey Mason Jr., the song could be eligible on creative grounds and that it is an original composition written and recorded by humans.

“Heart on My Sleeve,” a song created by the producer Ghostwriter using deepfaked vocal likenesses of Drake and The Weeknd, has been submitted to the Grammys for consideration, the New York Times reports. The song debuted in April and was created without the approval of either artist; after the song quickly became a viral sensation, Universal Music Group successfully pulled it from streaming services.

Olivia Rodrigo has spoken about why she’ll never watch The Idol.The pop star said in a new interview that she has no interest in watching the HBO show because she regards it as anti-feminist.“I don’t have the desire to [watch it],” Rodrigo told The Guardian. “I remember walking out of Barbie and being like, ‘Wow, it’s so long since I’ve seen a movie that is female-centred in a way that isn’t sexual or about her pain or her being traumatised.’”The Idol, which stars Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye), was originally pitched as a satire about the music industry that follows Depp’s pop star Jocelyn as she frees herself from a toxic relationship with Tesfaye’s club owner/cult leader Tedros.But when Euphoria creator Sam Levinson took over after the exit of director Amy Seimetz, he reportedly turned Seimetz’ vision on its head, stuffing the season with a large number of sex scenes and providing little commentary on its original themes.“The Idol was one of HBO’s most provocative original programs, and we’re pleased by the strong audience response,” HBO said when it announced the series’ cancellation last month.“After much thought and consideration, HBO, as well as the creators and producers have decided not to move forward with a second season.

The Weeknd has reacted to the news that Taylor Swift is now the only other music artist with 100million Spotify listeners.After it was announced that Swift had reached the prestigious milestone last week, an achievement previously only held by The Weeknd – real name Abel Tesfaye – he shared a message of congratulations for the singer.Resharing a news post to his Instagram Story, The Weeknd left a fingers crossed emoji, seemingly in a show of support indicating their shared good fortune and friendship (via Billboard).The news post also featured a 2015 photo of the singer hugging The Weeknd onstage at her ‘1989‘ world tour, where she brought him out as a surprise guest to perform his song ‘Can’t Feel My Face’.Queen behavior

slammed the show for being “nasty,” and overly salacious, while behind-the-scenes reports pointed to a troubled production. “The Idol” is far from the first high-profile buzzy show that crashed and burned. Here’s a look at some others.

The Weeknd has shared some new studio photos with Metro Boomin and Mike Dean, fuelling rumours that a new album release could be imminent.The singer – who recently announced his plan to retire his moniker and record under birth name Abel Tesfaye – has long teased a trilogy of albums, having so far released ‘After Hours’ and ‘Dawn FM’.Back in June, he then confirmed in an interview with Variety that he was “finishing the third part of this saga, of this trilogy”.New pictures posted to Instagram this weekend have now teased that the final LP could be coming soon. “i hear the fire in the sky.

The Idol, The Weeknd and Sam Levinson’s divisive HBO series, has been canceled, Variety reports. The show debuted earlier this year and will end after just one season.

The Idol will not be returning for a second season, HBO has confirmed.The controversial series wrapped up its first – and only – season in early July after just five episodes, one shorter than its originally planned six-episode run.A spokesperson for HBO announced the cancellation in a statement to Variety, saying: “The Idol was one of HBO’s most provocative original programs, and we’re pleased by the strong audience response.”“After much thought and consideration, HBO, as well as the creators and producers have decided not to move forward with a second season. We’re grateful to the creators, cast, and crew for their incredible work.”The Idol – created by Euphoria director Sam Levinson and The Weeknd – starred The Weeknd, Lily-Rose Depp, Troye Sivan, Moses Sumney, BLACKPINK‘s Jennie and more.

“The Idol,” a series from Sam Levinson, creator of the hit show “Euphoria,” after just one season, The Post can confirm. “The Idol was one of HBO’s most provocative original programs, and we’re pleased by the strong audience response,” a spokesperson for HBO told The Post.“After much thought and consideration, HBO, as well as the creators and producers have decided not to move forward with a second season,” the statement continued.

will not be returning to HBO for a second season.HBO has decided to not renew the drama series — co-created by Abel «The Weeknd» Tesfaye,creator Sam Levinson, and Reza Fahim — after its controversial and divisive first season, reports. premiered in June and ran for five episodes. The story was left open-ended at the conclusion of the season for the possibility of a second season, although nothing had been previously confirmed.

Selena Gomez dropped an anthem about an ex — but not the one you think!On Friday, the 30-year-old released her new song, «Single Soon.» The catchy lyrics include lines that say «Should I do it on the phone?/Should I leave a little note/In the pocket of his coat? Yeah/Maybe I'll just disappear/I don't wanna see a tear/And the weekend's almost here.»In the chorus, Gomez gears up to be single, singing, «I'm pickin' out this dress/Tryin' on these shoes/'Cause I'll be single soon/I'll be single soon/I know he'll be a mess/When I break the news/But I'll be single soon/I'll be single soon.»Fans were quick to speculate that the song was about her famous ex, The Weeknd, but Gomez said not so fast. In response to an Instagram post asking fans if they believe the song is about the «Star Boy» singer, the actress commented, «Couldn't be more false.» Gomez and The Weeknd — whose real name is Abel Tesfaye — began dating in 2017 and ended their relationship 10 months later in October.