If I had a nickel for every time an album by the Weeknd album started off with a song produced by a French electronic duo, I would have two nickels, which is not a lot, but it’s weird that it happened ...

Aminé ‘s third studio album 13 Months of Sunshine — which dropped Friday (May 16) — pays homage to his Ethiopian roots, and one of the clearest examples can be heard in the title track that samples ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. 2025 is another huge year for The Weeknd, though it’s not as if he ...

Mason highlighted new initiatives that the Recording Academy has created to diversify voters and nominees, like the Black Music Collective. He then welcomed the Weeknd to the stage, where the singer ...

In this young century, no artist has had a better grip on the intertwined duality of the party and the after-party, and how the promise of night curdles in the daylight, than the Weeknd. He’s known ...