He has been in the game a bit longer his big first hit was in 2016:

This, and people keep telling me The Weeknd reinvented himself with Dawn FM.

He’s been doing 80s albums Since Starboy. We need Trilogy weeknd back.

I still can’t understand how he only sold 148k he was supossed to be a 300k+ artist , he really f***ed it up with no physicals day 1

Damn, Adele really flopped it's crazy

Yes but he really started off 4-5 years ago

Idk the album was boring to me and a lot of other ppl I talked to aside from a few songs so mayb it was the music

This was his first big hit, still a bop

We don't even need him to go full Trilogy. Just a minor return to form like he did on MDM would be enough

If I'm not mistaken that EP sold 170k fw and did similar streaming numbers to Dawn FM

Seems pretty clear to me that his core R&B fanbase is hungry for more projects like MDM, but he's too focused on his 80's pop s***

I f***ed up the timeline thought Tu No Vives Asi dropped first

Depends , in USA? Probably but in LATAM+Spain he became a household name already quickly in 2016, he was considered the king of latin trap due to Anuel being in jail

I think he oversaturated the market with his gimmick, dropping too many 80's songs in a short timeframe and people have grown tired of it

Notice how Bruno Mars always takes long ass breaks before dropping another 70's ripoff album

that's how u do it

well i guess the gimmick has run its course for Bruno too lol

I think the 70/80's 'gimmick' is already not as popular as it was a couple of years ago imo, artists need to start making 90s/00s type of music for the nostalgia streams now

Thats why we need the old kanye back

this will take 5 years more, first artists need to exploit more early 00s nostalgia

Bad Bunny almost outdoing Harry Styles on Spotify US lol.

Yo @thegreatdivine , the list of most streamed artists in the US published by chartdata (drake at #1 w 3B, YB at #2 with 2.8 etc) is all platform right ?

Yeah.

He had some solo songs and features, but his debut album dropped in December 2018.

GOAT