Canadian singer and songwriter The Weeknd has released his new single, “Moth To A Flame,” featuring Swedish house music supergroup, Swedish House Mafia.
The new song is the second single from the singer’s upcoming fifth studio album which is expected to be released before the end of this year.
Born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, The Weeknd took over pop music & culture on his own terms filtering R&B, Pop,& hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens.
The multi-platinum 3X GRAMMY Award winner has emerged as one of the most successful & significant artists of the modern era.
2012’s 3X platinum Trilogy collated 3 breakout mixtapes—House of Balloons, Thursday & Echoes of Silence—into his 1st chart-topping collection followed by his debut LP Kiss Land in 2013. Two years later, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” won “Best R&B Performance” & received an Academy Award nod for “Best Original Song” & 4X Platinum.
Beauty Behind The Madness won a GRAMMY for “Best Urban Contemporary Album.”
In 2018, Starboy won the same award, making him the 1st artist ever to win twice. His 6-track project My Dear Melancholy marked his 3rd consecutive #1 bow on the Billboard Top 200, & “Pray For Me” with Kendrick Lamar was featured in the trailer for the Academy Award winning Marvel film Black Panther.
In 2020 the 80’s-nostalgic track Blinding Lights became a worldwide sensation, igniting viral dance challenges across social media, peaking at #1 in 30+ countries & headlining Mercedes Benz EQC campaign. After Hours held the #1 spot on Billboard 200 for 4 consecutive weeks, marking his 4th #1 album & becoming the first to ever rank #1 on the Billboard 200, Hot 100, and Artist 100 simultaneously.
After Hours is the #1 R&B streaming album of all time (followed by Starboy at #2).