Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd’s House of Balloons reenters the Billboard 200 at No.

Abel Tesfaye's hedonistic alter-ego meets his end on Hurry Up Tomorrow, forcing listeners to ask just who we've been partying with all this time. "High for This," the opening track from The Weeknd's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd dominates many Billboard charts this week as his new ...

The Weeknd's third mixtape, Echoes of Silence, turns 15 next year. What better way to celebrate its anniversary early than with vinyl available on Complex Shop? Echoes marked the final installment of ...

It's been exactly five years since The Weeknd first dropped his House of Balloons mixtape. To celebrate the milestone, the singer is releasing a special collection of merch. The new five-year styles ...

"I'm ready for the end." The titular last song on the new 22-track album, "Hurry Up Tomorrow," seems to confirm the finality he's already been hinting at. Not only does the song have the lyrics "I'm ...

Tesfaye might have been content to play in his creation's personal Sodom forever, were it not for the rise of streaming and its effects on the acts of listening and discovery. The fully anonymous ...