The Weeknd is celebrating the release of his new album Hurry Up Tomorrowwith some major moves, including a return to the Grammy stage and the release of a trailer for the project’s tie-in feature film — and it appears to be paying off, with huge numbers projected for the album’s opening week.
Hits Daily Double is reporting that the album is expected to move between 350,000-375,000 units in its debut week. The Billboard 200 album chart will reveal its top 10 for the week on Sunday (February 9).
If Hurry Up Tomorrow does as well as expected, it will mark a significant increase over the first week of the singer’s last album, Dawn FM. That 2022 LP sold 148,000 first week, finishing at number 2 on the chart behind Gunna.
The trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow (the film) shows Abel alongside stars Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan in what is billed as a “surreal” adventure. Check it below.
Hurry Up Tomorrow was met with a ton of praise from Metro Boomin, who had nothing but great things to say about The Weeknd and producer Mike Dean.
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Hours after the album’s release at midnight ET on Friday (January 31), Metro took to X to heap high praise on the pair.
“only this n-gga Abel could drop album of the year in January lmao,” he wrote in his first post.
In a second, he added: “Mike Dean sitting high on that all time producer/composer list for sure.”
While Mike mixed and mastered the entire project as well as co-produced nearly all of the 24 songs, Metro also has a few production credits on the LP including “Cry For Me,” “Given Up On Me” and “The Abyss.”
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Released after a slight delay due to the recent L.A. wildfires, the 22-track (plus two bonus songs) musical odyssey serves as the final installment in the Canadian singer’s trilogy following 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM (2022).
It might also be The Weeknd’s final release, period, having been billed as his last album under his stage name, a swan song to one of the defining acts of the last decade.
This bittersweet fact is referenced on the album itself, with the closing track “Hurry Up Tomorrow” ending in the same way that “High For This” — the opening song on his debut mixtape House of Balloons from 2011 — begins.
Played together, the two tracks flow seamlessly into each other, essentially brining The Weeknd’s 14-year career full circle.
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