The Weeknd‘s new album Hurry Up Tomorrow has arrived on the Billboard 200 with a bang – coming in at No. 1 and nearly going gold in just one week.
According to Billboard, the new LP earned 490,500 equivalent album units in the week ending February 6 – less than 10k units away from going gold. This marks the largest week for any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department moved 2.6 million units in May 2024 , and the biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album since Travis Scott’s Utopia moved 496k units in August 2023.
This is a significant increase from the XO singer’s last album, 2022’s Dawn FM, which sold 148k the first week and finished at No. 2 on the chart behind Gunna.
Hurry Up Tomorrow was met with a ton of praise from Metro Boomin, who had nothing but great things to say about The Weeknd and producer Mike Dean.
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Hours after the album’s release at midnight ET on Friday (January 31), Metro took to X to heap high praise on the pair.
“only this n-gga Abel could drop album of the year in January lmao,” he wrote in his first post.
In a second, he added: “Mike Dean sitting high on that all time producer/composer list for sure.”
While Mike mixed and mastered the entire project as well as co-produced nearly all of the 24 songs, Metro also has a few production credits on the LP including “Cry For Me,” “Given Up On Me” and “The Abyss.”
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Released after a slight delay due to the recent L.A. wildfires, the 22-track (plus two bonus songs) musical odyssey serves as the final installment in the Canadian singer’s trilogy following 2020’s After Hours and the aforementioned Dawn FM in 2022.
It might also be The Weeknd’s final release, period, having been billed as his last album under his stage name, a swan song to one of the defining acts of the last decade.
This bittersweet fact is referenced on the album itself, with the closing track “Hurry Up Tomorrow” ending in the same way that “High For This” — the opening song on his debut mixtape House of Balloons from 2011 — begins.
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Played together, the two tracks flow seamlessly into each other, essentially brining The Weeknd’s 14-year career full circle.
