The Weeknd Donates $300,000 to Beirut Explosion Relief

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHxouse, the Toronto-based skills incubator launched by The Weeknd, his creative director La Mar Taylor and Influencers PR’s Ahmed Islamil, announced that TD Bank Group has become a founding sponsor of its leadership and entrepreneurial development initiative, Black Hxouse.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven in a pandemic, the VMAs found a way to start off their show with a bang: The Weeknd performed his smash single “Blinding Lights” 1,100 feet above New York, from the city’s highest observation deck, Edge at Hudson Yards.Weeknd was in the guise of the busted-nose character he portrays on his latest album, “After Hours,” and the performance began in a way similar to the album’s videos, which depict the character having a surreal and absolutely terrible night in

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEvery week, the avalanche gets bigger: Even though we’re reaching the end of the proverbial dog days of August, the songs keep coming, in greater numbers each week. I got nearly 400 emails between midnight and noon, and easily half were about new songs or albums (NOT COMPLAINING but wow).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe #GlobalAidForLebanon campaign launched by Weeknd manager and XO Records CEO Wassim “Sal” Slaiby in collaboration with Global Citizen and World Food Program USA (WFP USA) has brought in more than $1.2 million in cash and pledges to date, exceeding $1 million in just ten days, with donations continuing to come in.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLebanese-British singer-songwriter Mika will stage a livestreamed concert to raise funds and awareness for relief in the wake of the explosion in Beirut last month that killed more than 200 people and devastated a large area in the country’s capital.His “I Love Beirut” benefit concert will take place on Saturday 19 September and will be live-streamed across four time zones via YouTube.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOne of the most common refrains in the music industry is that only superstars earn serious bank from streaming — how many artists have, quite understandably, have vented publicly about receiving royalty checks in the double, single, or decimal digits?But advocates have long emphasized that with the right deal, streaming can pay handsomely — and while it declined to provide details, AWAL, the recorded-music division of Kobalt, announced that “hundreds” of artists

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWe at Variety try to shine a light on good deeds, and although we can’t say we condone Beggars Group CEO Paul Redding’s ambitious goal of swimming the English Channel in an effort to raise £200,000 for coronavirus relief and Black Lives Matter, we do applaud his intentions (and optimistically assume that he knows what he’s doing!).Redding aims to raise £200,000 for two music charities, the PRS Foundation (in the U.K.) and Sweet Relief Musicians Fund (U.S.).

Russell Crowe made a “very generous” donation to the Beirut restaurant Le Chef following the devastating explosions in Lebanon’s capital city. The “Robin Hood” actor revealed on Twitter that he made the donation “on behalf of the late Anthony Bourdain,” who was a big fan of food in Beirut.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAfter the devastating explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 4, thousands of buildings were destroyed including the staple Le Chef, a restaurant that the late, great Anthony Bourdain visited while in the capital city.

The Weeknd continues to support causes he believes in, after his generous donation to the BLM movement earlier this year, the music icon recently made another sizable donation to charities in Beirut. It was revealed yesterday that the 30-year-old Bright Lights musician had donated USD 300,000 to Global Aid for Lebanon, which will go to assist victims of the explosion that happened in Beirut last week.

coronavirus relief, Black Lives Matter and social justice organizations — and on Wednesday he donated $300,000 to Global Aid for Lebanon to assist victims of the horrific explosion in the country’s capital of Beirut on Aug.

The Weeknd has donated $300,000 to victims of the devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. The 'Starboy' hitmaker made the whopping donation to citizens of Lebanon's capital city who were affected by the shocking blast in a warehouse in the city last week, which killed over 200 people, and left more than 6,000 people injured.

The Weeknd continues to put his money to good use.

The Weeknd is continuing to open his heart and wallet with another big donation this week.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIf there’s one thing that can be said for Neil Young over the course of his nearly 60-year career, it’s that he stands behind his principles.

George and Amal Clooney have donated $100,000 to three charities in support of those affected by the devastating explosion in Beirut on Tuesday.More than 130 people are known to have died, with thousands more injured, following the deadly explosion in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.It's believed that the explosion may be linked to 2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, which was being stored in a warehouse near the port, per The New York Times.George and Amal Clooney are showing

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticGeorge and Amal Clooney have donated $100,000 to three charitable organizations providing relief for Beirut, where a massive explosion on Tuesday obliterated a city port, injured more than 5,000 people and killed at least 145.According to Unicef, the homes of 100,000 children had been damaged, many to the point of being uninhabitable.“We’re both deeply concerned for the people of Beirut and the devastation they’ve faced in the last few days,” the

George and Amal Clooney have just announced that they are making a whopping donation to help in the relief efforts in Lebanon after over 100 people were killed in a massive explosion in Beirut last week. Beirut is obviously a place that the couple holds close to their heart, keeping in mind that Amal Clooney was born there.

In today's edition of how awesome the BTS ARMY is, V aka Kim Taehyung's fanbase unites to raise funds working towards the relief activities of the Beirut blasts. Earlier this week, the world was left in shock when a massive blast took place in the Lebanese capital.