12 Facts About Blinding Lights

Weeknd's most successful single worldwide to date, "Blinding Lights" was the best-performing global single of 2020, earning 2.

Blinding Lights previously announced a project referred to as Chapter VI in June 2019.

Blinding Lights responded via social media calling the Grammys "corrupt" in popular social media posts.

In May 2021, "Blinding Lights" dropped off the Canadian Hot 100 after 75 weeks on the chart, leaving it one week short of the all-time record set by "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas in 2010.

Music video for "Blinding Lights" was directed by Anton Tammi, assisted by Kenneth Taylor, and filmed in Fremont Street, Las Vegas and Downtown Los Angeles, during a four-day shooting that took place until 6 AM every day.

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Blinding Lights said that since the Weeknd's previous videos had a dark and gritty vibe, he used generators powering banks of LED lights and a Sony Venice full-frame digital motion picture camera system to try to re-create the look, ending up with the video's vintage, 1980s style.

Michael Cube from Nylon magazine wrote that "the video for "Blinding Lights" is appropriately cryptic for the famously elusive artist", and praised the presentation's alluring mystique.

Blinding Lights brought a neon-lit cube with mirrored walls to the stage to sing through his brand new single.

The performance picked up right where the "Blinding Lights" visual left off, as the Weeknd remained in the red suit and his face was still bloodied with a bandage over his nose from the beatdown he vaguely remembered in the music video.

Blinding Lights bounced around the stage for the lively performance, as thunderbolts and lightning strikes at his back filled the darkness in the venue.

The Weeknd kicked off the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards with "Blinding Lights", described in advance as a "keyed-up, dazzling" showcase.

Blinding Lights performed a rooftop version of his hit single from the observation deck at 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan, New York City, complete with a background of fireworks.