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The Weeknd's 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Achieves Record-Breaking No. 1 Debut on Billboard 200

The 22-track album posts the artist's largest first-week sales to date, featuring high-profile collaborations and a tie-in film set for May release.

  • The Weeknd's 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 490,500 equivalent album units, marking the largest debut of 2025 so far.
  • This is the artist's fifth No. 1 album and his biggest debut week to date, surpassing the first-week sales of his 2020 album 'After Hours' by 6,000 units.
  • The album includes collaborations with Giorgio Moroder, Anitta, Travis Scott, Lana Del Rey, and others, and has already generated 171.5 million on-demand streams.
  • 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' will be accompanied by a Lionsgate-produced suspense thriller film directed by Trey Edward Shults, featuring The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan, scheduled for release on May 16.
  • The album's success was bolstered by multiple physical and digital formats, including exclusive editions with bonus tracks and signed variants, contributing to 359,000 in album sales.
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