Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd (born February 16, 199… Read Full Bio ↴Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd (born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian R&B/hip-hop musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He chose his stage name in tribute to when he was 17 years old, when, along with his friend La Mar Taylor, he dropped out of high school, took his mattress, and "left one weekend and never came home". However, his estranged former producer Jeremy Rose claims the name was his idea. The letter E was excluded to avoid trademark problems with the Canadian band The Weekend.

The Weeknd gained widespread critical acclaim for his three mixtapes: House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, which he later compiled to make a remastered, three-disc album titled Trilogy after signing his record deal with Republic. In 2013, he released Kiss Land, which was considered to be his debut studio album.

In 2014, he dropped “Often,” a remix of Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love,” and “King of the Fall.” The Weeknd released two songs in collaboration with the film Fifty Shades of Grey, with Earned It becoming his solo breakout hit.

His second studio album became highly-anticipated, with riveting singles like The Hills and Can’t Feel My Face leaving fans hungry for more. Beauty Behind the Madness was released on August 28, 2015.

His third studio album, Starboy, was released on November 25, 2016. The Daft Punk-assisted title track led the project as its first official single, released on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, before becoming his third number one track in the United States, as also his home country, Canada. The effort was a commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 albums chart with over 348,000 copies sold in its first week, all eighteen tracks debuting on the Billboard Hot 100, receiving a GRAMMY Award for the Best Urban Contemporary Album, category at the 60th annual ceremony, overall for the second time in his music career and being ranked as the third most popular album of 2017 in the U.S.

Next came the My Dear Melancholy EP, released on March 30, 2018 and revolving around his breakups with Bella Hadid during summer of 2016 and Selena Gomez in October 2017. With the lead single, Call Out My Name, the Canadian singer earned the largest first-day Spotify stream count of any song released in 2018 at that time and his eighth Top 10 entry on Hot 100.

Tesfaye’s fourth studio album (and his first in three years), After Hours was officially released on March 20, 2020, and is named after a 1985 movie directed by his idol, Martin Scorsese. It was primarily supported by November 2019-released singles Heartless and Blinding Lights, with the pair becoming his fourth and fifth #1 singles in the US and the latter his first #1 single in the UK. The title track and In Your Eyes were also released as singles.

Although widely expected to receive multiple nominations for After Hours, Tesfaye failed to receive any nominations for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (2021). Tesfaye took to his social media to criticize the Recording Academy, claiming corruption. Speculation arose that the announcement of his then-upcoming Super Bowl performance as well as the discrepancy of being nominated as pop music versus R&B contributed to the snubs. On February 5, 2021 The Highlights was released, as his second greatest hits album. Tesfaye performed at the Super Bowl LV halftime show on February 7, 2021 after announcing he would perform in November 2020. He reportedly spent $7 million on his performance at the show. Despite having a mixed response, the show resulted in a surge in streaming and downloads for Tesfaye's After Hours album as well as for the seven other songs he performed.

His fifth album, Dawn FM was released on January 7, 2022, continuing the writing and production work with Swedish pop svengalis Max Martin and Oscar Holter. The album was preceded by the single Take My Breath in August 2021, with Sacrifice announced as the second single.

Crazy in Love
The Weeknd Lyrics

I've been mixin'
I've been sippin'
Since I been twenty on that lean, baby girl
I've been poppin'
And I've been rollin'
Since I was seventeen I've been geekin' on that water

I want you, na na
I'm not tryna fuck tomorrow
Baby, I want you, na na

Don't take my number
Don't want your number
I'll call you back if that head right, baby
I won't love you
I can't love you
Unless that pussy got some super powers

I want you, na na
I'm not tryna fuck tomorrow
Baby, I want you, na na

And I woke up in the kitchen sayin'
How the hell did this shit happen, oh, baby
Drunk in love
We be all night
Last thing I remember is our beautiful bodies grindin' up in the club
Drunk in love, yeah
We be all night, love, baby, love
We be all night, love, baby, love

Wanna fuck a skinny model right before her runway show
She the one in the back
Nose runnin' from the blow
And we did it on the floor
That's why she walkin' kind of funny
Should've never put us on
Bitch I'm only twenty-four
And everybody salty
Niggas stop your bitchin'
Everybody makin' money we don't need to kick it
I'm chillin' with my niggas
Everybody got a crib
Did an album just to do it
Droppin' albums like a pill
Percocets, Adderall, ecstasy
Pussy, money, weed
Faded for a week
I don't sleep
Fuck my enemies
Tryin' to stay sane is like a full-time hobby
Everythin' I do fake niggas always copy

All I want to do is go on tour and drop albums
And if I live forever, probably drop a hunnid thousand
Dick made out of magic
My tongue got superpowers
I woke up in the mornin'
Models passed out in the shower

And I woke up in the kitchen sayin'
How the hell did this shit happen, oh, baby
Drunk in love, hey (ooh)
We be all night
Love, oh yeah, love
We be all night
Love, oh yeah, love
We be all night

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Written by: Abel Tesfaye

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