Love him never thought I would ever love another artist and his music so much again

Weeknd stans really thought he could hold the title lol. When the singles run out, then what

All his Covid era records have been getting broken. The new music isn’t hitting anymore either. Very interested to see how the future looks for his career numbers wise. Funny enough it’s looking like he’s on his way to becoming a legacy artist carried by his old catalog

I mean he held the record for a good while. 31 songs with a billion streams is something to sneeze at? He'll eventually end up with around 40 as well by the end of the decade

How is 31 songs with a billion streams a Covid era record? The only Covid era songs he has that have a billion streams are the After Hours singles. There's 28 other songs that were released before or after that time period that reached a billion

31/319 vs. 29/559

Lmao

A lot of the songs reached 1b due to TikTok vitality which happened during the covid era. He also hasn’t had a solo hit since 2020 which was the covid era.

That's not true at all?

The song that resurged because of TikTok was Die For You, which was already at 1B streams beforehand.

Also, he reached 18 songs with 1B+ at the end of 2024, which means that in the past year and a half, he's had an additional 13 songs reach 1B+. How is that Covid era?

A great feat. He's one of the biggest singles artists of the streaming era. But a record like that was always going to belong to someone who gets their entire albums played.

After Hours was a curse. 5 years later he's still touring it. Been downhill since.

The Weeknd doesn't get his albums played?

He's the only artist with two albums in the top five of Spotify's most streamed ever, and the only artist to have three in the Top 20.

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The tour was delayed numerous times because of the pandemic and then announced as a joint tour after Dawn FM released, he's not still touring that album, he's touring the trilogy

Thanks to the singles

Yeah, the big songs on the big albums are singles. That's the case with like... every album ever

The trilogy being After Hours, After Hours 1.1 and After Hours 1.2

To Midzy's point, I'd be curious to see the disparity between the singles' and album cuts' streams across different artists and genres. I'm sure some artists have really balanced loads (and potentially higher averages) across all the songs on their albums while some are super concentrated into the top 1-3 songs on their albums and the rest of the songs get very little play