The Weeknd Scores Biggest Sales Week of 2020 with 'After Hours' #1 Billboard Debut!

The Weeknd’s After Hours could capture a fourth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week. If the set holds atop the list, it will mark the first album to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 since Drake’s Scorpion in 2018, and just the fifth set since 2018 to log at least four total weeks at No. 1. Industry forecasters suggest that After Hours could earn 62,000 to 75,000 equivalen

By Jem Aswad

The Weeknd is staying on top of the charts.

The Weeknd’s After Hours scores a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first album to lead for three consecutive weeks since Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding also spent its first three weeks atop the tally last year (Sept.

When The Weeknd set his release date for After Hours, he couldn’t have imagined the viral pandemic the world would soon be facing. Despite the looming uncertainty, however, he never thought about pushing back the project’s release—even though his team and label wanted him to.

By Jem Aswad

The Weeknd has landed a second successive week at the top of both the U.S. singles and albums charts.

The Weeknd continues to dominate the music charts!

The Weeknd’s After Hours leads a very busy top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set spends a second week atop the tally. The album earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the U.S.

The entirety of The Weeknd’s new album After Hours reaches Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart dated April 4, led by current single “Blinding Lights,” which shoots 5-1. “Blinding Lights” becomes The Weeknd’s second No. 1 on Streaming Songs, follo

While the rest of the world's headlines get drearier by the day, The Weeknd just keeps winning. The artist born Abel Tesfaye scores his fourth consecutive No.

After The Weeknd’s After Hours made a splashy debut at No.

Ten days after its release, The Weeknd seems determined to make sure his new album “After Hours” is a gift that keeps giving: At the stroke of midnight ET, he added three previously unreleased songs to the album’s deluxe edition: “Nothing Compares,” “Missed You” and “Final Lullaby.” The three songs are all collaborations with his longtime sonic associate DaHeala; “Nothing Compares” also features contributions from producer Ricky Reed, who helmed much of Lizzo’s smash “Cuz I Love You.”

The Weeknd’s album After Hours has hit the Billboard 200 in a big way.

The Weeknd returned last week with his first album in four years, After Hours, and the highly anticipated project earned the best first-week sales of 2020. Billboard reports that the XO boss moved 444,000 equivalent album units of After Hours in its first week, with 275,000 in pure sales.

The Weeknd rocks the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart, as he scores his fourth No. 1 album with his latest release, After Hours.

The Weeknd delivers a blinding performance on this week’s Official Albums Chart as he lands his second UK Number 1 album with After Hours.

Six days after The Weeknd’s latest album “After Hours” arrived to rapturous response, a ray of light at the end of one of the worst weeks anyone can remember, the album is headed for one of the biggest debuts of the year, and an easy album-chart topper.

The Weeknd is on course for his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as industry forecasters suggest his latest release, After Hours, should make a splashy debut atop next week’s tally.