New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Weeknd's latest album, After Hours was released to massive critical and fan acclaim and has now been crowned the year's biggest release, earning over 2 billion global streams and nearly 2 million in global consumption. The Grammy Award winning artist has not only captured a #1 album debut, but the single "
Blinding Lights" has simultaneously captured the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his 5th #1 on the chart.
In addition, After Hours has become the #1 R&B streaming album of all time, breaking the record previously held by The Weeknd's 2016 release, Starboy.
The artist now holds the #1 and #2 top streaming R&B albums of all time with After Hours and Starboy. After Hours is topping the charts across the globe, debuting #1 in Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and New Zealand. The album debuted at #1 on Apple
Music in over 85 countries and dominated the global Spotify Chart, capturing 7 of the Top 10.
Additionally, "
Blinding Lights" has been the #1 airplay song and #1 official single in multiple countries for several consecutive weeks as well as Spotify's #1 Global Song for 37 days and counting. The record has also has crossed over 5 million in Single Consumption. After Hours is out now via XO/Republic Records/Universal Music.
The #1's were aplenty for the release, #1 Billboard Debut of 2020 (After Hours), #1 Billboard Top 200 (After Hours), #1 Billboard Hot 100 (Blinding Lights), #1 Billboard R&B Album (After Hours), #1 Billboard
Digital Song (Blinding Lights), #1 All-Time R&B Streaming Week (After Hours) and #1 Global Shazam (Blinding Lights).
Previous to album release the first two singles, "
Heartless" and "
Blinding Lights", had already taken the world by storm, earning RIAA Platinum status and bringing The
Weeknd into the Top 10 artists of all time for RIAA singles. "
Heartless" became The Weeknd's 4th #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, while "
Blinding Lights" became his 5th #1 Hot 100 and his 7th #1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, the most for any artist ever. The
Weeknd continued the trend by accumulating over 1 million pre-saves on Apple Music, the most the platform has ever seen.
