The Weeknd scaled the most historic heights of pop success in 2021.
rollout – the previous November, validating what had been a long-term evolution for the pop singer-songwriter. When Tesfaye first appeared as an underground R&B sensation back in 2011, then started to cross over in 2012, he didn’t emerge from the shadows so much as take the shadows with him: His presence was at first anonymous, then inscrutable, then just widely off-center from what was expected of pop stars at the time.
There were other clues, of course. Most notably, Tesfaye took the Raymond James Stadium stage in February with twosingles then currently in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 15. The blazing “Blinding Lights” had topped the chart for four weeks nearly a full year earlier and was still hanging around at No.
“Save Your Tears” would stall on the Hot 100 for the next couple months, clearly in need of a little extra boost to get it in contention for the chart’s top spot. In May, the song got exactly what it required: a duet remix featuring a guest verse and some new backing vocals from Tesfaye’s frequent musical co-star Ariana Grande.
Meanwhile, the chart endurance of “Blinding Lights” was getting historic. Months after the Super Bowl performance gave the song its final major adrenaline shot, the Hot 100 voyage of “Lights” still refused to run aground – a tribute to the song’s seemingly inextinguishable appeal on radio and streaming services. In August, the song spent its 88th week on the chart –
set by Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” from 2012 to 2014 – before finally exiting three frames later, after having spent a record 90 weeks on the chart in total. era, The Weeknd’s ability to take advantage of his gas-pedaled career momentum with an accompanying tour remained forever just out of his grasp. Originally scheduled to start in June of 2020, the trek was delayed due to COVID concerns – first to June 2021, then to January 2022.
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