The Weeknd

The Weeknd-backed personalized song creation startup Songfinch raises $17m in Series A round

Latest round brings the company’s total funding to-date to $21.8 million

The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too

The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.

The Weeknd wins IFPI Global Digital Single Award for Save Your Tears

Award is presented to the world’s best-selling single of the year across all digital formats

Warner Chappell Music extends publishing deal with The Weeknd songwriter Belly

Warner Chappell has acquired 50% of Belly’s songwriting catalog as part of the deal.

Global Spotify chart streams rose 3% last week – but fell again in the United States

Deezer says there's reason to be hopeful – and we need to wait things out

The Weeknd enjoys major debut on Spotify with new album, racking up over 59m chart streams in a day

Drake's Scorpion remains the record-holder for day one global streams with more than 132m

Confirmed: The Weeknd’s After Hours surpassed a million pre-adds on Apple Music ahead of release

"Let the music heal us during these dark times."

The Weeknd smashes Apple Music record, heading towards 1m global pre-adds of new album

After Hours already has 975,000 pre-adds – Apple's digital equivalent of traditional pre-orders

Yes, global Spotify chart streams are down this week. No, that doesn’t mean Coronavirus is hurting the record industry.

Worldwide streams in Spotify's Top 200 have fallen 11%. But that's no reason for labels to worry...

Drake finally loses his Spotify crown to record-breaking The Weeknd

Canadian overtakes fellow Canadian on Spotify's global listener rankings