Things You Didnt Know About the Weeknd

21 facts you lot need to know virtually 'Blinding Lights' singer The Weeknd

Everything you need to know about the R&B vocalizer, from his net worth to his birthday and more.

1. What is The Weeknd's net worth in 2021?

As of 2021, The Weeknd reportedly has a net worth of around $100 1000000. Picture: PA
2. Why did The Weeknd boycott the Grammys?

Afterwards being snubbed by the Recording University in 2020, The Weeknd called the organisation 'decadent'. The vocalizer failed to receive a single nomination despite the mammoth success of his album 'After Hours' and its hit singles, including the record-breaking 'Blinding Lights'. As a effect, The Weeknd has boycotted the awards show and will not submit any more music to the Grammys. (Picture: Getty)
3. Did The Weeknd get plastic surgery?

During the promotional rollout for his 2020 album 'After Hours', The Weeknd began sporting a browbeaten up face, so a face up covered in bandages before finally unveiling an extreme surgically-modified face in the video for 'Salve Your Tears', with the help of prosthetics. The meaning behind the move? He told Diversity that he was highlighting the "absurd culture of Hollywood celebrity and people manipulating themselves for superficial reasons to please and exist validated." Motion picture: YouTube
4. What is The Weeknd's real proper name?

The Weeknd's real proper noun is Abel Tesfaye. Motion picture: Getty
v. How one-time is The Weeknd?

The Weeknd was born on 16th February 1990, making him 31-years-one-time. Picture: Getty
half dozen. Does The Weeknd accept a girlfriend?

Post-obit his relationship with Bella Hadid, the Canadian moved on with singer Selena Gomez. Selena and The Weeknd split in October 2017 and later rekindled his relationship with Bella. They split up shortly after.
vii. Is The Weeknd Ethiopian?

The Weeknd is of Ethiopian descent. He was born in Toronto, Ontario every bit the only child of parents Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye, who were both Ethiopian immigrants to Canada in the tardily '80s. After his parents carve up, he was raised by his grandmother. Movie: Getty.
8. Why does Abel Tesfaye use the phase name 'The Weeknd?'

Tesfaye explained the origin of his stage proper noun in a Reddit Q&A with fans: "I left home when I was about 17 dropped out of high school and convinced Lamar [XO crew member] to do the same lol. Nosotros grabbed our mattresses from our parents threw it in our friends southward****y van and left i weekend and never came back home... I hated my proper noun at the fourth dimension though so I tried it every bit a phase proper name. It sounded cool. I took out the "e" because there was already a canadian band named the weekend."
9. Why does The Weeknd spell his proper noun similar that?

The Weeknd recently confirmed during a Reddit AMA that he spells his proper noun without the "east" because of copyright issues. He said: "I hated my proper name [at the start of my career] and so I tried it as a stage name. It sounded cool. I took out the 'east' because there was already a Canadian band named the weekend."
10. Why is the The Weeknd'due south coiffure called 'XO'

Some accept claimed that XO simply stands for hugs and kisses, while others argue the messages correspond the drugs ecstasy and oxycontin. Given that XO is office of the slogan "XO 'til we overdose" the latter seems more viable.
eleven. The Weeknd gave up "nearly half" of one of his old albums to Drake.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Canadian vocalist said: "I gave up nearly half of my anthology [to Drake]. It's hard. I will always be thankful—if it wasn't for the light he shined on me, who knows where I'd be. And everything happens for a reason. Y'all never know what I would say if this success wasn't in front of me now." Picture: Getty
12. Drake'due south 'Coiffure Love', 'Shot for Me' and 'The Ride' were all supposed to be on 'House of Balloons'

Tesfaye told Circuitous that all three tracks were originally planned for his debut until Drake heard them. "I wanted to come out with like 14 records. I felt like "The Ride" was the concluding ane, and it wasn't washed yet. [Drake] heard it… and he liked it so much, he was similar, 'I need to have this, man…'," he said.
xiii. The Weeknd'due south music is really inspired by Federal democratic republic of ethiopia.

"You lot hear it mostly in my voice," he told Vman. "I've been told my singing isn't conventional. Ethiopian music was the music I grew up on, artists like Tilahun Gessesse, Aster Aweke, and Mahmoud Ahmed. These are my subconscious inspirations. 'The Hills' was the offset time you actually heard the Ethiopian linguistic communication in my music. Information technology will definitely be primal on [Starboy]."
14. When did The Weeknd first start to go noticed?

When 3 tracks - 'What You Demand', 'Loft Music', and 'The Morn' - credited to The Weeknd get-go appeared on YouTube in tardily 2010, little was known about the artist backside them. In 2012 more details gradually emerged and The Weeknd was revealed to be the stage proper noun of vocalizer Abel Tesfaye. Born in Toronto, Canada, Tesfaye is 25.
15. What'southward the difference between The Weeknd's mixtapes and 'Trilogy'?

Tesfaye institute fame through a trio of self-released mixtapes he released in 2011, named 'House of Balloons', 'Thursday' and 'Echoes of Silence'. They were subsequently remastered and reissued together as the compilation anthology 'Trilogy', along with three additional songs, in 2012.
16. The Weeknd'southward 'Firm of Balloons' is a real place.

The titular dwelling of The Weeknd's debut mixtape actually exists co-ordinate to Tesfaye. He revealed that the address is 65 Spencer in Parkdale, Toronto in a Reddit Q&A. The ominous looking place pictured is what comes upward on Google'south Street View at that location.
17. Tesfaye didn't go out Toronto until he was 21-years-old.

"From when I was built-in to when I was 21, I never left Toronto," Tesfaye told Complex. "That's why I'grand such a metropolis cat. 'Trilogy' is my experiences in those four walls."
18. The Weeknd is cool with Drake, despite rumours.

Tesfaye denied there's whatever bad claret betwixt the two despite his determination non to sign to Drake's OVO Sound label. "I told him from day ane what my conclusion was going to be," said Tesfaye in Circuitous, "I wasn't going that route. I was going to go my own route. And he supported me."
19. 'Buss Land', The Weeknd's first studio album, is a horror picture show of sorts.

According to Tesfaye: "A lot of information technology is inspired by filmmakers like John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and Ridley Scott, because they know how to capture fearfulness. That's what Kiss Land is to me, an surroundings that'due south just honest fear… So when y'all hear the screams in the record and you hear all these horror references and yous experience scared, listen to the music because I desire you to feel what I'thousand feeling. Kiss Land is like a horror moving-picture show."
20. Tesfaye came up with title for 'Buss Land' later on overhearing it in a conversation.

"The championship came from a chat that I overheard and those words stuck out," Tesfaye has revealed, "Someone said, 'Kiss Land' and I idea, 'That's going to be the title of my anthology.' It sounds so ridiculous. When I put [the title] out everyone was like, 'What the hell? This is going to be corny. It'south going to be all lovey-dovey.'"
21. Tesfaye is a big fan of Michael Jackson.

He covered MJ'due south 'Dirty Diana' on his third mixtape 'Echoes of Silence'.