Announced several times over the past four years, partly unveiled at a concert on September 7, 2024, in São Paulo, Brazil, then postponed for a week due to the Los Angeles fires, The Weeknd's sixth album, Hurry up Tomorrow, was eventually released in the early hours of this Friday, January 31. The last one under his artist name, claims the 34-year-old Canadian singer, and the final installment of his second trilogy, began in 2020 with After Hours, and Dawn FM in 2022.

At the start of his career, in 2011, he released a trilogy of mixtapes, renewing his musical genre, R&B. An artistic commitment he has kept, working with Daft Punk on Starboy (2016) and with the dark DJ Gesaffelstein for My Dear Melancholy (2018). His falsetto voice, often compared to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has delighted dancefloors with the very 1980s synths of "Blinding Lights" or "In Your Eyes." For his sixth album, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye – his real name and the one he will use to publish his music from now on – has not wavered from his watchwords: musical innovation and mastery of narrative.

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