The Weeknd‘s ‘After Hours’ clocked the year’s highest first week album sales (click here to read more) – a feat that not only nabbed the Billboard 200 crown but also granted a seat atop the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to the LP’s second single, ‘Blinding Lights’ (click here to read more on that)
As if looking down on the competition from the tally’s perch wasn’t enough, the Grammy winner (born Abel Tesfaye) has also set a record for placing every song from the 14-track project within the Hot 100.
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Here’s a look at all 14 of The Weeknd’s songs on the Hot 100 [this week]. All are debuts except where noted.
Rank, Title
No. 1, “Blinding Lights” (up from No. 2)
No. 4, “Heartless” (up from No. 16; led the Dec. 14, 2019-dated chart)
No. 16, “In Your Eyes”
No. 21, “Alone Again”
No. 22, “After Hours” (re-entry; peaked at No. 20)
No. 24, “Scared to Live” (notably, it interpolates Elton John’s “Your Song,” giving John his first Hot 100 writing credit since another song that did the same: Aloe Blacc’s “The Man,” which hit No. 8 in 2014)
No. 25, “Hardest to Love”
No. 28, “Too Late”
No. 32, “Snowchild”
No. 39, “Escape From LA”
No. 41, “Save Your Tears”
No. 45, “Faith”
No. 69, “Repeat After Me (Interlude)”
No. 80, “Until I Bleed Out”
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As seen above, 10 of Tesfaye’s songs appeared in this week’s Hot 100’s top 40. And while he is now just the eighth artist in history to have charted that many entries in the chart region concurrently (following Drake, Ariana Grande, J. Cole, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, Post Malone and Travis Scott), he is the first and only male vocalist.
In other historic news, The Weeknd is also the first act to lead the Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Artist 100, Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts simultaneously. Click here to read more about that.