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Awards
Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year
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Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album
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Juno Award for Artist of the Year
IMUDB Ranking
9.9/10
Based on how many times this artist has been played on Last.fm — not a critic score.
🎧 5,510,867 listeners
▶ 1,173,481,162 plays
Wikipedia
Abel Tesfaye (born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye; February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Regarded as an influential figure in popular music, he is known for his light-lyric tenor vocal range and falsetto, alternative R&B sound, and dark aesthetics, as well as the cinematic visuals and storytelling of his music videos. His accolades include 4 Grammy Awards, 20 Billboard Music Awards, 22 Juno Awards, 6 American Music Awards, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, and a Latin Grammy Award.
Tesfaye began releasing music anonymously in 2009. After co-founding the record label XO, he released three mixtapes—House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence—in 2011. He signed with Republic Records to compile the mixtapes into the compilation album Trilogy (2012), before releasing his debut studio album, Kiss Land (2013). Following collaborations and film soundtrack contributions from 2013 and 2014, Tesfaye blended alternative R&B with pop on his second and third studio albums, Beauty Behind the Madness (2015) and Starboy (2016); both debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Can't Feel My Face", "The Hills", "Starboy", and "Die for You". His debut extended play (EP), My Dear Melancholy (2018), featured the US top-ten single "Call Out My Name".
Tesfaye began an album trilogy based on three time points, starting with the dream pop– and new wave–inspired album After Hours (2020), which spawned the chart-topping singles "Heartless" and "Save Your Tears", as well as "Blinding Lights"—the best-performing song in the Billboard Hot 100's history and the most-streamed song on Spotify. The trilogy's latter two installments, Dawn FM (2022) and Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025), featured the US top-ten singles, "Take My Breath" and "Timeless".
Tesfaye is one of the best-selling and most-streamed artists of all time. He has amassed eight diamond-certified singles from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The first artist to ever surpass 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify and the highest-paid musician in 2025, he ranked among the world's 100 most influential people by Time in 2020. His After Hours til Dawn Tour (2022–2026) set the record for the highest-grossing tour by a male soloist in history. Tesfaye also co-created and starred in the HBO drama series The Idol (2023), and the film Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025). His other ventures include hosting the Apple Music 1 radio show Memento Mori (2018–2022), being appointed goodwill ambassador for the World Food Programme in 2021, and advocacy for racial equality and food security.
🤝 Collaborations (173)
Genius ↗MusicBrainz credits combined with Genius song credits from top 15 tracks
The Weeknd has 173 credited collaborators on IMUDB — 6 featured, 21 producer, 1 bandmates, 30 production & engineering, 7 instrumentalists, 108 other. Active 1990–present.
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🎵 Top Tracks popularity ranked · Genius
⭐ Known For
Starboy
▶ 211,865,175
After Hours
▶ 150,196,175
Beauty Behind the Madness
▶ 107,979,896
My Dear Melancholy,
▶ 60,983,928
Dawn FM
▶ 116,580,156
Hurry Up Tomorrow
▶ 86,212,896
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