The Weeknd is thanking Tom Cruise for helping him score a No. 1 hit earlier in his career. In 2015, the Mission: Impossible actor participated in a lip sync battle on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,

Tom Cruise's lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon led to a full-circle moment in 2025. Cruise himself returned to The Tonight Show on Monday, May 19 and revealed that he'd heard The

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Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, performed and discussed Tom Cruise's influence on his career on "The Tonight Show" Thursday. The music artist, 35, sang "Baptized in Fear" and "Open Hearts."

Host Jimmy Fallon told The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) one of the first times his late-night talk show used one of his songs was in 2015 during a Lip Sync Battle segment featuring Cruise, who praised the singer as being “enormously talented” before launching into his performance of “Can’t Feel My Face.”

The Weeknd will always be grateful to Tom Cruise for promoting his music. During an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night, host Jimmy recalled how he was first introduced to the singer-songwriter's music when the Hollywood icon performed his track Can't Feel My Face as part of a Lip Sync Battle segment in 2015.