Abel Tesfaye has long toyed with ceasing to release music as The Weeknd, his globe-conquering R&B pop alias. Back in May 2024, he told W Magazine that his upcoming album, later revealed as Hurry Up ...

“Hurry Up Tomorrow” is likely as bleak a film as you’ll see this year. In it, multi-platinum and Grammy-winning musician The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) stars as a fictional version of himself, spinning a ...

After almost 16 years spent as The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye says he is considering retiring his famous musical moniker after his upcoming projects. As he explains though, a trip to his doctor resulted in ...

The Weeknd has a “new everything” coming out in 2025. A new movie. A new tour. A new album. And maybe a new identity. Ahead of the release of Hurry Up Tomorrow, billboards started popping up reading ...

Like so many other artists these days, Abel Tesfaye has struggled with the extent of his own celebrity. “People get consumed, especially now, by the concept of being famous,” he told Variety in a new ...

The artist currently known as The Weeknd has spent the last 15 years building his reputation as the “dark prince of pop.” Starting as an enigmatic artist who released his songs anonymously, The Weeknd ...

At the end of “Heartless,” the fifth song of the night, Abel Tesfaye finally takes off his dystopian-esque chrome mask. He raises it with a look on his face that some would call anguish and some would ...

On stage inside a sold-out AT&T Stadium, a cityscape is in decay. Between massive lighting rigs, gear for a band and more lasers than Star Wars, a once-powerful city skyline has turned to rubble, ...

LAS VEGAS − Abel Tesfaye, the musician known as The Weeknd, is a certified smash. Tesfaye, the movie star, is more of an unknown commodity. Audiences get to see both at work in the psychological ...