The Weeknd to headline first Spotify Billions Live

The Weeknd will perform at Spotify’s first-ever Billions Club Live concert in Los Angeles to celebrate having the most songs with more than one billion streams on the platform.

The concert will be held exclusively for his top fans on Spotify on Tuesday 17 December, and his set list will include selections from his 24 total songs in the Billions Club such as Blinding Lights, Starboy, Die for You, The Hills and Save Your Tears.

Billions Club Live is the latest extension of the Billions Club, which celebrates fans’ favourite artists hitting the career milestone of one billion streams on Spotify.

The Canadian-Ethiopian superstar (real name Abel Tesfaye) is set to release his sixth studio album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, on 24 January. The record will serve as the third and final instalment of his latest trilogy, following 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM.

The Weeknd has the most songs with more than one billion streams on Spotify

He debuted these songs and more from Hurry Up Tomorrow during his one-night-only show at the Estádio MorumBIS in São Paulo, Brazil, in September before he took the stage at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena for the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival.

In October, he performed a handful of shows at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium and Sydney’s Accor Stadium in Australia. And he’ll perform a one-night-only show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on 25 January, one day after his new album drops. The concert will feature never-before-seen production, and the stage will take over the entire floor of the stadium.

The Weeknd’s most recent After Hours Til Dawn tour has been a global success, with over 60 sold-out stadium dates and more than three million attendees across North America, Europe, the UK, and Latin America.

The tour has also broken attendance records, including a two-night run at London Stadium that drew 160,000 fans.

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