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Abel Tesfaye's hedonistic alter-ego meets his end on Hurry Up Tomorrow, forcing listeners to ask just who we've been partying with all this time.

It’s really amazing to look at the germinal seeds of that ideology in the relationship between these two men in the time that the film covers. Sebastian Stan as ... and we met in my dressing room. But ...

“Cry for Me” is off of Tesfaye’s final album as the Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow, which dropped late last month and features ...

Boosted by physical sales and a Grammy performance, the album had the biggest week since Taylor Swift’s huge opening last ...

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Shortly after his surprise appearance and standout performance at the Grammys, The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) released his sixth studio album, Hurry Up Tomorrow.

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