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Happy 36th birthday to the gorgeous, mega talented, chart-topping, record-breaking, history-making, 4x Grammy-winning legendary Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Director, Producer, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Global Icon, #TheWeeknd! 👏🎂🎉🌟🐐👑❤️🎇 Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is one of the greatest performers of All Time, and one of the World's best-selling music artists of the Century with over 20 million albums and 132 million certified single units sold in the US alone! He has become one of the most influential and commercially dominant artists in modern music! He has also one of the best voices, famous for his light-lyric tenor vocal range and signature falsetto. His unique timbre has earned him praise as one of the era's most influential vocalists, ranking him among Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers! Time named him one of the world's most influential people in 2020 and he was dubbed the "World's most popular artist" by Guinness World Records in 2023! The Weeknd has 8 Diamond singles certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and holds the Record for Most Songs with over 1 Billion streams on Spotify (30)! His single "Blinding Lights" is the #1 most streamed Song of All Time on Spotify with over 5.287 Billion plays, and is the #1 Song in Billboard Hot 100 chart history and the longest-charting, leading Billboard's Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs chart! It's also the 2nd most successful Song of the Century on the United World Chart with 21.290.000 points! 'After Hours' is the most-streamed R&B album in history, while his 'After Hours til Dawn Tour' (2022―2026) is the highest-grossing tour of All Time by a male soloist! The R & B Superstar first earned critical and commercial success with his 2nd studio album 'Beauty Behind the Madness' (2015), which peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 #1 hits "Can't Feel My Face" and "The Hills"! The album won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album and was nominated for Album of the Year! His 3rd studio album 'Starboy' (2016) was also a major success, topping the Billboard 200, and spawned the global chart-topping hits "Starboy" ft. Daft punk & "Die for You," winning the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album. His 4th studio album, 'After Hours' (2020), was his most successful ever, topping the Billboard 200 and reaching #1 in over 20 countries! It featured his biggest history-making hit "Blinding Lights" and the Hot 100 #1 singles "Heartless" and "Save Your Tears." His 5th studio album 'Dawn FM' (2022) was also a big global success, reaching #1 in over 10 countries and spawning the global smash hit "Take My Breath". On January 31, 2025, The Weeknd released his 6th studio album "Hurry Up Tomorrow", the final installment of a trilogy following 'After Hours' and 'Dawn FM' with guest appearances from Anitta, Justice, Travis Scott, Florence and the Machine, Future, Playboi Carti, Giorgio Moroder, and Lana Del Rey. Its bonus edition starred Swedish House Mafia. The Album was powered by the hit singles "Timeless", "São Paulo", and "Cry for Me" and was a huge success, debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 490,500 album units, and the United World chart, marking his 5th #1 album! It topped the weekly charts in over 16 countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway & the UK! The Weeknd has won 176 Awards out of 517 nominations including 4 Grammy Awards, 22 Billboard Music Awards, 22 Juno Awards, 8 American Music Awards, 4 iHeartradio Music Awards, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, 3 Latin American Music Awards and a Latin Grammy Award! The Weeknd is also an extremely talented actor and Director, nominated for an Academy and Primetime Emmy Award, after blowing the world away with his amazing most talked about, one of a kind drama series 'The Idol' which spawned the global smash hit "One Of The Girls" ft. Jennie & Lily Rose Depp! Abel is also a successful entrepreneur, and in 2011, he co-founded with managers Wassim Slaiby and Amir Esmailian and creative friend La Mar Taylor, the XO record label. He has built a strong portfolio of brand endorsements and partnerships across fashion, tech, footwear, and lifestyle. Key ones include his long-term role as global brand ambassador and creative collaborator with Puma since 2016, featuring campaigns like "Run The Streets," signature sneakers such as Puma Parallel, and multiple capsule collections. He has also partnered with Apple in music ads in 2015, and later efforts. In April 2019, Abel became an owner and global ambassador of the esports company OverActive Media, owners of the Splyce and Overwatch League team Toronto Defiant. In 2021, he joined football player Tom Brady's NFT platform Autograph as a member of their board of directors. He has also collaborated with fashion brands like Alexander Wang for an apparel collection, and BAPE (A Bathing Ape). In 2023, Abel partnered with Blue Bottle Coffee to launch Samra Origins, a specialty coffee brand inspired by his Ethiopian heritage which he named after his mother, and in 2025, he collaborated with Nespresso to launch a new coffee blend collection called the "Togetherness Blend". In 2025, he also partnered with Roblox to launch a limited avatar collection, French football club Paris Saint-Germain to launch a limited capsule collection and kits under XO, and Canadian baseball team Toronto Blue Jays for a limited merch collaboration during the 2025 World Series. Abel is a dedicated philanthropist, focusing on global hunger relief, disaster response, health crises, and cultural preservation. He has donated over $10 million to various charities over recent years, earning him awards like the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. In 2022, he launched the XO Humanitarian Fund in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), where he serves as a Goodwill Ambassador. The fund has raised over $6.5 million from tour proceeds, including $1 per ticket from his 'After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour', merchandise, and sponsors. Key allocations include millions directed to emergency food aid in Gaza ($4.5 million+ providing millions of meals and bread loaves to Palestinians), Ethiopia where his parents are originally from, supporting malnourished women and children, and other crisis zones like Afghanistan, Yemen & Ukraine. He also donated $1 million to the Los Angeles wildfire relief in 2025, aiding firefighters, GoFundMe, and food banks! He donated $350,000 for Hurricane Melissa recovery in Jamaica in late 2025, aiding 200,000 people, and $500,000 to the Scarborough Health Network for COVID-19 frontline support in his hometown, and another $500,000 to MusiCares for musicians impacted by the pandemic. Earlier efforts include contributions to racial justice causes like Black Lives Matter, Beirut explosion relief, Tigray famine aid, and Ethiopian studies at the University of Toronto. Abel has come so far, from dropping out of high school, facing homelessness, working retail at American Apparel, and anonymously uploading dark R&B mixtapes online in 2011, to becoming one of the World's Biggest Superstars, continuously breaking Spotify, Billboard, RIAA and Touring All time records! He is now worth over $600 million net, and continues to reshape modern music!