Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, higher referred to as The Weeknd, has secured the title of essentially the most streamed artist on Spotify simply two weeks into the brand new yr.
On January 15, The Weeknd surpassed 500 million Spotify streams. He’s the primary musician to achieve this milestone this yr, partly on account of his newest album, Daybreak FM. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 154k equal album gross sales throughout its first week.
The Weeknd’s ‘Daybreak FM’ debuted at #1 on UK Music Chart
The album additionally debuted at #1 on UK Music Charts with over 20,000 chart gross sales, making it Abel’s third #1 on the chart. With no bodily model obtainable, streaming companies corresponding to Spotify and Apple Music accounted for all album gross sales within the first week of launch.
The album garnered 426 million Spotify streams in simply seven days following the discharge of Daybreak FM.
Daybreak FM, The Weeknd’s fifth studio album, launched on January 7, 2022, by XO and Republic Data. It options Jim Carrey, Tyler the Creator, and Lil Wayne as visitor vocalists, together with Quincy Jones and Josh Safdie as spoken phrase artists.
Abel describes the album’s concept as a experience to the “mild on the finish of the tunnel.” It serves as a follow-up to his fourth studio album After Hours (2020). Daybreak FM is an uplifting report with dance-pop and synth-pop tracks largely influenced by new wave, funk, and digital dance music types from Nineteen Eighties. Music critics praised the album’s trippy theme, sound, and melodies.
The singer plans to go on the After Hours until Daybreak Stadium Tour in the summertime of 2022, which can cowl North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Center East. The tour will cowl each Daybreak FM and After Hours albums.
The tour was initially supposed to start on June 2020 in Vancouver, and finish on November 16, 2020, in London. Nonetheless, all of the preliminary deliberate dates have been postponed due to issues over the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and area limits, and the occasion will now happen in the summertime of 2022.
