Tory Lanez has sent Drake & The Weeknd multiple songs spanning over years, to which they never responded. The Canadian rapper said in a Q&A session with fans on his Twitter today.
This comes as a surprise to many as all three artists are in the R&B, Hip-Hop, & Pop music scene and are also all native Canadians.
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News broke of Kanye West dropping out of Coachella on Monday (April 4). Taking his place during the two-day California festival will be The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia.
In the midst of Kanye West’s albums doing pretty phenomenal numbers on streaming services, the rapper has been the center of attention in a slew of personal life issues that have transpired online.
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On Wednesday (April 6), Coachella confirmed that The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia will replace West as a headliner on April 17 and 24, respectively — two Sundays.
According to TMZ, Coachella was in talks with both parties about headlining the event. Discussion of the 32-year-old singer headlining “stalled at one point.
Dawn FM, a surprise body of work he released this past January, debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.
The Weeknd first made his Coachella debut in 2012, returning back in 2018 to headline, and now headlining again in 2022.
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye was born to Ethiopian parents in Toronto, Canada in 1990. He has worked with Drake, Kanye West, Daft Punk, Nav, and Belly to name a few of the rappers he’s made music with. He got his start with House of Balloons and has gone on to become an international sensation.
The Weeknd is known for singing but he started out as a rapper. His dark r&b came later and has led to rap collaborations and features with Travis Scott and French Montana. He’s won multiple Grammys and is known for creating “eras” with his music.
The Weeknd releasing his psychedelic, r&b 80s-feeling album, Dawn FM. Gunna dropped the fourth installment of his drip season mixtapes, DS4EVER, which sold 150k units the first week. Beating out his last project, WUNNA which had 113k in 2020.
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Many predicted The Weeknd to sell well over 250k, but with little marketing and hype to the radio station-themed album, Abel sold only 148k. This is infrequently low for The Weeknd, who sold over 440k first week with his 2020 album, After Hours. The difference in sales between the two boys of works is an estimate 60%.
Canadian R&B heavyweight The Weeknd unleashed his fifth studio album, Dawn FM, on Friday and now predictions for the first week sales are in. According to projections by HDD and DJ Akademiks, the album will move 150-170k album-equivalent units this week.
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The project boasts limited guest appearances from Lil Wayne, Quincy Jones, Jim Carrey, & Tyler, The Creator. The first week’s sales for the album come short of its predecessor, 2020’s After Hours, which sold 444k album-equivalent units in the first week. 275k of the units were pure copies, thanks to the physical album bundles that included merchandise.
Towards the end of 2020, a change in Billboard rules disqualified album bundle sales, a reason why the sales bar on Dawn FM lowered. Weeknd did recently reveal that he cares less about numbers with the new album, but more about giving his fans better music.
As we await first week projections for Gunna’s DS4EVER that dropped on Friday as well, it’s only a matter of time before Billboard 200’s chart-topper for this week is known.
Looks like The Weeknd thought fans wanted the old him, but no how Kanye meant it. The Canadian superstar has Jim Carrey, that’s right Mr. Ace Ventura himself, helping him roll out the album. So far we have a title and a tracklist with the likes of Lil Wayne and Quincy Jones. Tyler the Creator is yet another anticipated rap collaborator slated to appear.
The album is the follow-up to the successful After Hours fever-dream we’re all ready to wake up from. He is one of Toronto’s brightest stars and everyone is bracing themselves for his latest release. Looks like Abel is on his grown man business this time around. Dawn FM drops Jan 7.
The Weeknd has shared a promo clip for his next album, dawn FM, dropping this Friday (Jan. 7).
The body of work will feature Jim Carrey, Quincy Jones, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, and Oneohtrix Point Never.
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This release follows up his stellar 2020 body of work, After Hours.
Without saying, 2021 was one rocky year. In light of music turmoil last year, The Weeknd is ready to brighten some days ahead.
the “starboy” has shared a text thread between XO co-founder, Lamar Taylor, and himself. “Everything feels chaotic again,” he started the message to Taylor with. “Music can heal and that feels more important than another album rollout. Let’s just drop the whole thing and enjoy it with the people.”
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