If this is really the end of The Weeknd’s artistic moniker, what a run it’s been for the R&B titan, who redefined the genre with his Michael Jackson-adjacent croon and overindulging party favor-assisted anthems throughout the 2010s and early 2020s.
It’s fitting that the era is bookended by a pair of trilogies, with The Weeknd now completing his second as the anticipated Hurry Up Tomorrow arrived on Friday (Jan. 31), following Dawn FM and After Hours earlier in the decade.
HUT was originally slated to arrive alongside a Rose Bowl concert earlier in January, but Abel delayed the release out of respect for those impacted by the tragic Los Angeles fires across California. He also donated $1 million to first responders and other organizations providing relief efforts against the crisis.
Earlier this month, the XO honcho confirmed HUT would serve as the final installment in The Weeknd’s discography and kill his moniker.
“It’s a headspace I’ve gotta get into that I just don’t have any more desire for,” he told Variety. “You have a persona, but then you have the competition of it all. It becomes this rat race: more accolades, more success, more shows, more albums, more awards and more No. 1s. It never ends until you end it.”
Hurry Up Tomorrow boasts 22 tracks in total including previously-released singles like the Billboard Hot 100 top three hit Playboi Carti-assisted “Timeless” and “Sao Paolo” while the Max Martin-produced “Dancing in the Flame” was scrapped.
Take a journey into The Weeknd’s universe for one last galaxy ride as we rank all of the tracks from Hurry Up Tomorrow below.
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