Thanks to his new album, Dawn FM, The Weeknd has broken a Spotify record previously set by Justin Bieber.
This month, the record was released and missed out on number one in the Billboard 200 to Gunna’s DS4Ever by just 2,300 equivalent sales. However, Abel Tesfaye is streets ahead on the streaming front, and no artist is currently more popular on Spotify.
His numbers have asserted him in his own league, and he currently has over 86 million monthly listeners. It was only last month that Bieber became the first artist to hit the 90 million monthly listener mark, but now Tesfaye has overtaken him in the top spot.
Meanwhile, he recently hinted that his most-recent album was part of a trilogy. He posted an image on Twitter of the cover of the record alongside the caption, “I wonder… did you know you’re experiencing a new trilogy?”
This comment aligns with a post that had gone viral by Reddit user u/FlashMorus. They speculated, “Many people did not like that ‘Every Angel is Terrifying’ is not a full song, but just a longer skit, but guys please… he literally threw an advertisement for his next album which will be called After Life. After Hours -> Dawn FM (purgatory) -> After Life and After Life will be the closure of the whole new trilogy.
“In the first track ‘Dawn FM’ when Jim Carrey says “enjoy another hour of commercial-free music” we can hear “free yourself” and then on ‘Every Angel is Terrifying’ so we get commercial. Abel did not do it accidentally, he marked it on ‘Dawn FM’ to make us pay attention to it. Tell me that I am not the only one who thinks like that. Dawn FM is nearly done, and the After Life is coming guys!”
Listen to the album below.