1. The Weeknd's accolades include four Grammy Awards, 20 Billboard Music Awards, 22 Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, a Latin Grammy Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
50 Facts About The Weeknd
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The Weeknd signed with Republic Records to reissue the mixtapes into the compilation album Trilogy, and release his debut studio album, Kiss Land the following year.
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The Weeknd has set the record for most songs to have over 1 billion streams on Spotify, with "Blinding Lights" being the most-streamed song in the app's history.
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The Weeknd has donated millions to causes related to racial equality, food security, and disaster relief, including substantial contributions to COVID-19 relief efforts and the Ethiopian humanitarian crisis.
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The Weeknd was further educated at West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute.
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The Weeknd removed the last 'e' in 'weekend' to avoid trademark issues with the Canadian pop rock band the Weekend.
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The Weeknd has experienced homelessness and was incarcerated on several occasions during this time, which encouraged him to "smarten up, to focus".
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The Weeknd participated in concerts hosted by the Black Student Association at the University of Toronto.
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The Weeknd performed at various European festivals, such as Primavera Sound in Spain and Portugal and the Wireless Festival in the United Kingdom.
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The Weeknd contributed two songs to the soundtrack for the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, "Devil May Cry" and the soundtrack's second single, "Elastic Heart" with Sia and Diplo.
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The Weeknd announced the King of the Fall Tour in June 2014, a 4-city tour of North America between September and October and was supported by Schoolboy Q and Jhene Aiko.
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The Weeknd was unveiled as one of the musical faces of the streaming service Apple Music, alongside Drake.
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On February 17,2017, the Weeknd began his fifth concert tour, called Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour.
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The Weeknd visited the continents Europa, North- and South America and Oceania.
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The Weeknd then appeared on the Virgil Abloh-directed music video for Lil Uzi Vert's "XO Tour Llif3" alongside Nav.
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The Weeknd was later featured on Lil Uzi Vert's debut album Luv Is Rage 2 on the track "UnFazed" and on Gucci Mane's eleventh studio album Mr Davis on the track "Curve".
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The Weeknd appeared in multiple festivals throughout 2018 to support the EP, most notably the Mawazine Festival in Morocco, Lollapalooza in both Chicago and Berlin, and a post-race concert at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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The Weeknd released the album's title track as a promotional single.
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The Weeknd reportedly spent US$7 million of his own money on the Super Bowl performance.
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The Weeknd later began to tease new music in the same month.
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The Weeknd accepted his first Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist, which was presented to him by former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama.
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The Weeknd was nominated for a record sixteen awards, and won ten, including Top Artist and Top Hot 100 Song.
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The Weeknd appeared on the cover of the September 2021 issue of GQ, marking the magazine's first global publication.
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The Weeknd broke the record for the most simultaneous entries for a male soloist on the Billboard Global 200, with twenty-four songs on the chart.
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On July 26,2022, the Weeknd announced that he would host a haunted house at Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood, as part of Universal's Halloween Horror Nights hosted every Halloween.
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On February 27,2023, in the wake of the remix's success, the Weeknd became the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
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On March 3,2023, the Weeknd released his first live album, titled Live at SoFi Stadium.
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In May 2023, the Weeknd stated that he was intending to retire the moniker of "the Weeknd" in favor of performing under his birth name, or adopting a new pseudonym altogether.
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The Weeknd explained that his upcoming album would most likely serve as his "final hurrah" under the name.
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The Weeknd co-created the HBO drama series The Idol with Sam Levinson, and stars in the show alongside Lily-Rose Depp.
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The Weeknd lacks the comfortability, the gravitas, charisma, and charm to increase the viability of Jocelyn being attracted to him.
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On December 2,2023, Fortnite announced that the Weeknd would be featured as the headlining artist for its Fortnite Festival gamemode and outfits of him would become available to play with on December 9.
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The Weeknd's outfits have three different variants of himself; the red suit seen throughout the promotional material for After Hours, the outfit from his 2022 Coachella performance, and two of the costumes that he was seen wearing during the After Hours til Dawn Tour.
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The Weeknd announced the title of his upcoming sixth album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, three days prior to the concert.
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The Weeknd has attributed Jackson's music as key in spurring him to be a singer, referencing the lyrics to "Dirty Diana" as an example.
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The Weeknd grew up listening to a variety of music genres, including soul, hip hop, funk, indie rock, and post-punk.
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The Weeknd has cited Lana Del Rey, David Bowie, the Smiths, Bad Brains, Talking Heads, DeBarge, 50 Cent, Wu-Tang Clan, and Eminem as influences and inspirations.
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The Weeknd collaborated with fashion designer Alexander Wang for an apparel collection.
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The Weeknd cut ties with the company in 2018, following a racist incident within the company.
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The Weeknd was inspired to support the center after learning of French Montana's work with Global Citizen and Mama Hope to help raise awareness for Suubi and the people of Uganda.
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The Weeknd then urged other music executives, major record labels, and streaming services to donate to the cause as well.
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The Weeknd donated US$300,000 to Global Aid for Lebanon in support of victims of the Beirut explosion.
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The Weeknd prefers to be interviewed only in rare situations.
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The Weeknd starred in the music video for his single "In the Night" in December 2015.
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The Weeknd dated American singer-actress Selena Gomez from January to October 2017.
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The Weeknd began growing it out in 2011 and remarked at how easy it was to maintain with "a hard shampoo every once in a while".
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The Weeknd cut his hair in 2016, prior to the release of Starboy.
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The Weeknd later altered the handles on his social media to reflect his stage name in preparation for the release of Starboy.
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The Weeknd pleaded no contest and was sentenced to complete fifty hours of community service.
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The Weeknd has received nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.