Yea I think ppl forget it was heartless first then BL like right after maybe like 3 days later. It was obv not being pushed
I think even the title track had a bigger debut Lol

5 times bigger lol, were you born in 2018 or something? He has barely grown since Starboy. Don't you guys remember him breaking streaming records w/ that album?

the music video is performing pretty badly considering his size

that's my point tho

that doesn't matter for artists like Travis/Drake, those types artists don't need to "push" anything, it just happens naturally. but Weeknd's fans seem to mostly be casuals that need to be told what to listen to

mangotflu

He has sold out stadiums all across the globe in the past two years.

He was completely unable to do that in 2016.

He has about 110 million monthly listeners on Spotify this year, he was nowhere near that 5-6 years ago.

If you think Weeknd has not ballooned in popularity since 2017/2018 you are delusional

Well he does make a lot of casual music
But I think you are mostly right
Since after after hours its mostly pop music and i think the hardcore fans are looking for stuff like my dear melancholy and after hours (title track)

Starboy had crazy hits but Blindling Lights is the ONE. Every country knows him because of this song lol

Some people are just talking bullshit every single day in this thread

Weeknd is a pop artist. Travis & Drake are not.

Two different ballgames

Nigga just had 70K people in Brazil singing all of his songs and this clown thinks he hasn’t gotten more popular since 2016

Do we have to link the thread on here of people saying he wouldn’t be able to sell out stadiums in 2022?

right, i'm talking about the US, not globally. In the US his metrics haven't grown since Starboy. AH is very far off behind his highest selling album etc. Starboy broke streaming records, none of his albums have done that since.

Why is his music video flopping if he has grown by 5x since Starboy?

Nobody watches music videos anymore, it’s also been out for 14 hours

Starboy dropped 2016 and people watched way more music videos at that time

I swear this guy is so f***ing dumb

seems like cope, Sabrina is a pop artist & has way higher debuts than The Weeknd

She literally took 10 years to start off lmaoooo

how is that relevant to people being thirstier for new music from her lol

Lol she wont be a thing anymore in 2 years from now. Also way more people are listening to Weeknds music as a whole

He literally had multiple hits since Dawn, you're so f***ing dumb

Taste did 6.5m first day, Please Please Please did like 5m. so again this seems like cope

Yeah it only took her ten years of flopping to reach that, not sure why you’re comparing an established act to someone catching their first hot year in a decade

Moving the goalposts again are we? First it was "pop artists dont do high debuts"

Now its "pop artists do high debuts if they're not an established act" lmao

Ariana Grande also does the same s***, so not sure why you're coping so hard

This guy can't even read lmao

mangotflu is really the most braindead poster itt and we have thegreatdivine as the OP

I was told The Weeknd doesn't debut crazy because he';s a pop artist

I showed you pop artists debutting crazy

You're now crying like a b**** after I destroyed your ego

Pop artists usually don’t do high debuts unless you’re the top of the top.

Sabrina is having an extremely viral year and has caught hit after hit, so it’s no surprise that she’s selling so high right now.

The year she’s having now is the year Weeknd had in 2015, and surprise surprise, Beauty Behind the Madness sold 412K first week after Kiss Land didn’t clear 100K

You showed one artist who flopped for ten straight years and is extremely hot right now

Look at the music video for yes, and?

83M views in 8 months

Niggas don’t watch music videos like that anymore