Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd scores his fifteenth top 10 on the Billboard Global 200 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. In 2015, The Weeknd secured back-to-back chart-toppers with “Can’t ...

From Drake and Jessie Reyez to rising stars Baby Nova and Angine de Poitrine, these are the Canadian albums soundtracking ...

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, ...

As everyone shares their top 5 most-streamed songs and artists of the year, some interesting stats have emerged. The Weeknd has been crowned the most streamed male artist on Spotify for 2024. Not R&B, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Blinding Lights” claims the shiny prize largely for its unprecedented longevity in the top 10: 59 weeks, the most of any song not ...

The Weeknd lands his fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the debut of Hurry Up Tomorrow atop the tally (dated ...

On the final night of his After Hours til Dawn Tour, The Weeknd attempted to sing one of his most powerful songs, “Alone Again,” — but nothing came out. This moment, its causes, effects and fallout, ...

What do you think is The Weeknd’s best album? Beauty Behind the Madness? Dawn FM? If you ask him, My Dear Melancholy is the one. “My favorite is My Dear Melancholy. I don’t know if it’s an album, but ...

In this article, Pulse examines one of the most instructive wealth-building stories in the modern pop culture: the financial evolution of Abel Makkonen Tesfaye. The origin story of the man behind The ...

The international superstar’s After Hours Til Dawn Tour has become one of the biggest global treks ever, appearing in the top 10 of Billboards ...