ny bookers

4y

This a huge W for hip hop and black culture in general

too much inorganic industry pop has been drowning out rap of its well deserved praise for a minute now, glad people finally shutting that s*** off now

Mango

4y

If you ranked every rap album that ever went #1

Where do you think this Gunna album stacks up

BLACK

4y

top 10

Emotion

4y

🥭

ny bookers

4y

This a huge W for hip hop and black culture in general

too much inorganic industry pop has been drowning out rap of its well deserved praise for a minute now, glad people finally shutting that s*** off now

Maccaveli101

4y

China and India are easily bigger markets.

Not to mention in Asia there’s more money to make since physical media is still a thing.

Artists can actually make serious money selling records again in Korea and Japan.

truudatz

4y

if you not #1 in the US everywhere else tiny market dont matter

Maccaveli101

4y

They bumping it in every continent.

He ain’t Gunna, Weeknd’s music is international.

thegreatdivine

4y

Not The Weeknd/Republic Records doing damage control This is how you know you've lost. Global appeal so undeniable he failed to debut above a B-list artist in the country where most of his fans are based

The Weeknd’s New ‘Dawn FM’ Tops Charts Around The World, Showing His ‘Undeniable Global Appeal’

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< 1/18/2022
By Andrew Unterberger

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The album topped 10 global country charts, according to his label, while landing at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with the potential to rise.

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The album, which follows as a companion piece of sorts to 2020’s blockbuster After Hours, bowed atop the Official U.K. Albums Chart — as well as, according to The Weeknd’s label, Republic Records, the official charts of Canada, Australia, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, two of the set’s tracks made the top 10 of Billboard‘s Global 200 chart, tracking the biggest songs in the world each week — led by the No. 2 debut of “Sacrifice,” which accounts for a mighty 53.5 million global streams this week, according to MRC Data.

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The album has a lot of room to grow, too, as one of the year’s first superstar releases. While in the U.S., the album trailed Atlanta rapper Gunna‘s DS4Ever on the Billboard 200 albums chart, landing at No. 2 on the tally dated Jan. 22, The Weeknd still has CD and vinyl releases planned that could push the album up the charts if it sustains streaming interest. And, meanwhile, he’s preparing for his long-postponed After Hours ‘Til Dawn Stadium Tour that’s now due to kick off this summer with dates across across multiple continents and maintain fans’ interest in the album and mark one of the world’s biggest tours since concerts shut down in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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“The impact of Dawn FM speaks to The Weeknd’s undeniable global appeal and further reinforces the healing power of music,” says Monte Lipman, Republic Records founder and CEO, in a statement. “The non-traditional rollout represents Abel’s pure dedication to his fans by making new music available in real time. This body of work has captured the imagination of both the creative community and the overall marketplace.”

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Since his pop breakthrough in the mid-’10s, The Weeknd has been a steady presence at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. His three most recent albums before this year, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s Starboy and 2020’s After Hours, all debuted atop the listing — with After Hours marking arguably the biggest success of his career to date, earning 444,000 equivalent album units in its first week — as did his 2018 EP My Dear Melancholy. But Dawn FM was edged out by DS4Ever (which, like Dawn FM, was released on Jan. 7 and officially announced the Monday before) in a particularly close race: DS4Ever bowed at No. 1 with 150,300 equivalent album units, while Dawn FM finished just a couple thousand short of that with 148,000 units.

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While the initial performance for Dawn FM may seem modest compared to The Weeknd’s After Hours start, it requires some additional context. The first factor of importance is that After Hours‘ lofty first-week number, posted in April 2020, was boosted by a number of advantages that Dawn FM lacks. After Hours was released when Billboard still counted ticket- and merch-bundled album sales towards its totals — and The Weeknd offered both ticket bundles with CD purchases and merch bundles with digital purchases of After Hours, as well as a direct-to-consumer combination physical and digital album bundle, which could be reported as a sale that week even when the physical album would not ship for months to come. It all helped the album reach 274,000 in first-week sales, and over 100,000 in physical sales alone.

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None of that is available for Dawn FM. In addition to bundles having been disallowed from contributing towards chart totals in October 2020, Dawn FM has no physical release to speak of yet — something the singer-songwriter (born Abel Tesfaye) himself acknowledged on Twitter would hurt his first-week numbers. “This doesn’t matter to me,” Tesfaye posted, in a tweet that was later deleted. “what matters is getting to experience the album together with the fans during these times.”

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After Hours also benefited from a long and successful pre-release rollout — largely centered around the set’s two pre-release singles “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights,” which dropped within a couple days of one another the prior November, and which would both top the Hot 100 by the time After Hours itself debuted atop the Billboard 200. By contrast, the only song to be released in advance from Dawn FM — which was officially announced just days before the album’s Friday debut — was “Take My Breath,” which notched a solid Hot 100 debut at No. 6 the prior August, but failed to build much momentum from there and was not a major needle-mover by the time of Dawn‘s release five months later.

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/the-weeknds-dawn-fm-top-charts-world-1235020035/

Dedication 666

4y

gunna > the girl in yo profile pic

thegreatdivine

4y

Not The Weeknd/Republic Records doing damage control This is how you know you've lost. Global appeal so undeniable he failed to debut above a B-list artist in the country where most of his fans are based

The Weeknd’s New ‘Dawn FM’ Tops Charts Around The World, Showing His ‘Undeniable Global Appeal’

---

< 1/18/2022
By Andrew Unterberger

---

The album topped 10 global country charts, according to his label, while landing at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with the potential to rise.

---

The album, which follows as a companion piece of sorts to 2020’s blockbuster After Hours, bowed atop the Official U.K. Albums Chart — as well as, according to The Weeknd’s label, Republic Records, the official charts of Canada, Australia, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, two of the set’s tracks made the top 10 of Billboard‘s Global 200 chart, tracking the biggest songs in the world each week — led by the No. 2 debut of “Sacrifice,” which accounts for a mighty 53.5 million global streams this week, according to MRC Data.

---

The album has a lot of room to grow, too, as one of the year’s first superstar releases. While in the U.S., the album trailed Atlanta rapper Gunna‘s DS4Ever on the Billboard 200 albums chart, landing at No. 2 on the tally dated Jan. 22, The Weeknd still has CD and vinyl releases planned that could push the album up the charts if it sustains streaming interest. And, meanwhile, he’s preparing for his long-postponed After Hours ‘Til Dawn Stadium Tour that’s now due to kick off this summer with dates across across multiple continents and maintain fans’ interest in the album and mark one of the world’s biggest tours since concerts shut down in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

---

“The impact of Dawn FM speaks to The Weeknd’s undeniable global appeal and further reinforces the healing power of music,” says Monte Lipman, Republic Records founder and CEO, in a statement. “The non-traditional rollout represents Abel’s pure dedication to his fans by making new music available in real time. This body of work has captured the imagination of both the creative community and the overall marketplace.”

---

Since his pop breakthrough in the mid-’10s, The Weeknd has been a steady presence at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. His three most recent albums before this year, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s Starboy and 2020’s After Hours, all debuted atop the listing — with After Hours marking arguably the biggest success of his career to date, earning 444,000 equivalent album units in its first week — as did his 2018 EP My Dear Melancholy. But Dawn FM was edged out by DS4Ever (which, like Dawn FM, was released on Jan. 7 and officially announced the Monday before) in a particularly close race: DS4Ever bowed at No. 1 with 150,300 equivalent album units, while Dawn FM finished just a couple thousand short of that with 148,000 units.

---

While the initial performance for Dawn FM may seem modest compared to The Weeknd’s After Hours start, it requires some additional context. The first factor of importance is that After Hours‘ lofty first-week number, posted in April 2020, was boosted by a number of advantages that Dawn FM lacks. After Hours was released when Billboard still counted ticket- and merch-bundled album sales towards its totals — and The Weeknd offered both ticket bundles with CD purchases and merch bundles with digital purchases of After Hours, as well as a direct-to-consumer combination physical and digital album bundle, which could be reported as a sale that week even when the physical album would not ship for months to come. It all helped the album reach 274,000 in first-week sales, and over 100,000 in physical sales alone.

---

None of that is available for Dawn FM. In addition to bundles having been disallowed from contributing towards chart totals in October 2020, Dawn FM has no physical release to speak of yet — something the singer-songwriter (born Abel Tesfaye) himself acknowledged on Twitter would hurt his first-week numbers. “This doesn’t matter to me,” Tesfaye posted, in a tweet that was later deleted. “what matters is getting to experience the album together with the fans during these times.”

---

After Hours also benefited from a long and successful pre-release rollout — largely centered around the set’s two pre-release singles “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights,” which dropped within a couple days of one another the prior November, and which would both top the Hot 100 by the time After Hours itself debuted atop the Billboard 200. By contrast, the only song to be released in advance from Dawn FM — which was officially announced just days before the album’s Friday debut — was “Take My Breath,” which notched a solid Hot 100 debut at No. 6 the prior August, but failed to build much momentum from there and was not a major needle-mover by the time of Dawn‘s release five months later.

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/the-weeknds-dawn-fm-top-charts-world-1235020035/

ny bookers

4y

This a huge W for hip hop and black culture in general

too much inorganic industry pop has been drowning out rap of its well deserved praise for a minute now, glad people finally shutting that s*** off now

BLACK

4y

top 10

mangotflu

4y

this is so sad to see lol, it makes him look desperate, he must know that surely

The Darkest Angel

4y

Stuff like this is just making it out to be a bigger loss. We never see other artists and labels cope to this level. Abel said he didn't care about numbers so I expected him to take this better than he is but I guess he obviously does care. Really this is embarrassing to see. You know he really wanted to start the year off with a bang because of all the work he out into this

gay shoes

4y

sales do not equate to quality.

but with that said, once one of Weeknd's singles catches on it's over, he will probably have a week where he goes #1 out of the blue. it's just one of those kind of albums.

thegreatdivine

4y

He's never scoring a hit as huge as Blinding Lights ever again so don't count on that happening.

thegreatdivine

4y

He's never scoring a hit as huge as Blinding Lights ever again so don't count on that happening.

thegreatdivine

4y

The US is by far the biggest music market in the world so underperforming there is an automatic L. These are the top 10 biggest music markets globally:
1. United States
2. Japan
3. United Kingdom
4. Germany
5. France
6. South Korea
7. China
8. Canada
9. Australia
10. Netherlands

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_recorded_music_markets