Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow rebounds on four U.K. charts after ...

The Weeknd is one of those artists that is held to a higher standard whenever he drops a new project. In his almost 15-year long career, he has arguably never put out a bad song, let alone a bad album ...

The Weeknd’s “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with a staggering 490,500 equivalent album units, making it the biggest debut of 2025. That marks the largest week for any ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd’s The Highlights returns to the U.K. top 10, ...

Wait, Is This Really the End? In a 2023 interview with W, the Weeknd claimed that Hurry Up Tomorrow would serve as a skin-shedding for his career: “The album I’m working on now is probably my last ...

At midnight Jan. 31, I was sitting in the passenger seat of my friend’s car. We were parked in front of our apartment building, and in the back seat was another friend of ours. We had no intention of ...

On Friday, the Weeknd released “Hurry Up Tomorrow” — his latest album and the conclusion to the musical trilogy that began with “After Hours” in 2020 and continued with “Dawn FM” in 2022. But after ...