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Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Abel Tesfaye and the final album under his stage name of the Weeknd. It was released through XO and Republic Records on January 31, 2025. It also serves as a companion piece to the film of the same name. The standard album contains guest appearances from Anitta, Justice, Travis Scott, Florence and the Machine, Future, Playboi Carti, Giorgio Moroder, and Lana Del Rey, with a bonus edition containing an additional appearance from Swedish House Mafia. Production was primarily handled by the Weeknd himself and his regular collaborators including Cirkut, DaHeala, Max Martin, Mike Dean, Metro Boomin, Prince85 and OPN, alongside various other producers.
Hurry Up Tomorrow is primarily a synth-pop and R&B album, while exploring a wide variety of genres such as Brazilian funk and hip-hop. The album is the final installment of a trilogy following the Weeknd's previous two studio albums, After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022). The Weeknd has hinted Hurry Up Tomorrow may be his final album under his stage name, and revealed that it was partly inspired by losing his voice while on tour in 2022. Hurry Up Tomorrow was supported by the singles "Timeless", "São Paulo", and "Cry for Me". To promote the album, a co-headlining extension of his tour with Playboi Carti kicked off in summer 2025 and is set to end in 2026.
Hurry Up Tomorrow opened with first-week sales of 490,500 album-equivalent units in the U.S. and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, marking the Weeknd's fifth number-one album on the chart. Internationally, it topped the charts in 16 countries, including in Canada, France, Norway, Belgium, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The album received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its production, lyrical content and vocal performances; some critics described Hurry Up Tomorrow as a "powerful finale" to the trilogy and alter ego of the Weeknd.
On March 25, 2020, the Weeknd previewed five unreleased tracks during an Instagram livestream, some of which were reportedly intended for After Hours (2020), which was released five days prior. Three songs—"Nothing Compares", "Missed You", and "Final Lullaby"—were later added as bonus tracks in the deluxe edition of the album. However, the other tracks, "Take Me Back to LA" and "The Abyss" (then listed as "Regular" or "Hold My Heart"), did not appear on After Hours or its successor, Dawn FM (2022).
On January 10, 2022, three days after the release of Dawn FM, the Weeknd confirmed a follow-up album by tweeting: "I wonder... did you know you're experiencing a new trilogy?". This referenced his 2012 compilation album Trilogy, which contained remixes or remasters of the songs from his 2011 mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. It also confirmed that After Hours and Dawn FM are part of a trilogy, which would be concluded with the sequel to the latter.
Development on Hurry Up Tomorrow reportedly began closely following the release of Dawn FM in 2022. In January 2023, the Weeknd confirmed recording sessions had taken place for the album, while also stating he has "definitely been inspired". On September 3, 2022, the intended final date of the North American leg of the After Hours til Dawn Tour, the Weeknd lost his voice during his performance at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood: the show was rescheduled to November 26 and an extra date was added for the following day. He would later attribute the incident to exhaustion resulting from scheduling conflicts between the After Hours til Dawn Tour and the TV series The Idol (2023). The album was worked on up until release. In a January 2025 interview with Variety, the Weeknd revealed that "a good chunk" of the album was finished by September 2022, but his touring incident caused the album and its tie-in film to be "overhauled". The incident also influenced the Weeknd's decision to drop his stage name, potentially transitioning to making music under his real name, Abel Tesfaye:
The [upcoming] album is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd. This is something that I have to do. As the Weeknd, I've said everything I can say. I'll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as the Weeknd. But I still want to kill the Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.
In June 2023, the Weeknd stated in a Variety interview: "I'm finishing the third part of this saga, of this trilogy. The name of it will come out soon." Recording therefore coincided with his musical and acting work for The Idol (2023) and the After Hours til Dawn Tour. The Weeknd continued to work on the album after this, sharing images of recording sessions between September 2023 and February 2024 at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles, alongside frequent collaborators Oneohtrix Point Never, Mike Dean and Metro Boomin, among others.
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Abel Tesfaye and the final album under his stage name of the Weeknd. It was released through XO and Republic Records on January 31, 2025. It also serves as a companion piece to the film of the same name. The standard album contains guest appearances from Anitta, Justice, Travis Scott, Florence and the Machine, Future, Playboi Carti, Giorgio Moroder, and Lana Del Rey, with a bonus edition containing an additional appearance from Swedish House Mafia. Production was primarily handled by the Weeknd himself and his regular collaborators including Cirkut, DaHeala, Max Martin, Mike Dean, Metro Boomin, Prince85 and OPN, alongside various other producers.
Hurry Up Tomorrow is primarily a synth-pop and R&B album, while exploring a wide variety of genres such as Brazilian funk and hip-hop. The album is the final installment of a trilogy following the Weeknd's previous two studio albums, After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022). The Weeknd has hinted Hurry Up Tomorrow may be his final album under his stage name, and revealed that it was partly inspired by losing his voice while on tour in 2022. Hurry Up Tomorrow was supported by the singles "Timeless", "São Paulo", and "Cry for Me". To promote the album, a co-headlining extension of his tour with Playboi Carti kicked off in summer 2025 and is set to end in 2026.
Hurry Up Tomorrow opened with first-week sales of 490,500 album-equivalent units in the U.S. and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, marking the Weeknd's fifth number-one album on the chart. Internationally, it topped the charts in 16 countries, including in Canada, France, Norway, Belgium, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The album received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its production, lyrical content and vocal performances; some critics described Hurry Up Tomorrow as a "powerful finale" to the trilogy and alter ego of the Weeknd.
On March 25, 2020, the Weeknd previewed five unreleased tracks during an Instagram livestream, some of which were reportedly intended for After Hours (2020), which was released five days prior. Three songs—"Nothing Compares", "Missed You", and "Final Lullaby"—were later added as bonus tracks in the deluxe edition of the album. However, the other tracks, "Take Me Back to LA" and "The Abyss" (then listed as "Regular" or "Hold My Heart"), did not appear on After Hours or its successor, Dawn FM (2022).
On January 10, 2022, three days after the release of Dawn FM, the Weeknd confirmed a follow-up album by tweeting: "I wonder... did you know you're experiencing a new trilogy?". This referenced his 2012 compilation album Trilogy, which contained remixes or remasters of the songs from his 2011 mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. It also confirmed that After Hours and Dawn FM are part of a trilogy, which would be concluded with the sequel to the latter.
Development on Hurry Up Tomorrow reportedly began closely following the release of Dawn FM in 2022. In January 2023, the Weeknd confirmed recording sessions had taken place for the album, while also stating he has "definitely been inspired". On September 3, 2022, the intended final date of the North American leg of the After Hours til Dawn Tour, the Weeknd lost his voice during his performance at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood: the show was rescheduled to November 26 and an extra date was added for the following day. He would later attribute the incident to exhaustion resulting from scheduling conflicts between the After Hours til Dawn Tour and the TV series The Idol (2023). The album was worked on up until release. In a January 2025 interview with Variety, the Weeknd revealed that "a good chunk" of the album was finished by September 2022, but his touring incident caused the album and its tie-in film to be "overhauled". The incident also influenced the Weeknd's decision to drop his stage name, potentially transitioning to making music under his real name, Abel Tesfaye:
The [upcoming] album is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd. This is something that I have to do. As the Weeknd, I've said everything I can say. I'll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as the Weeknd. But I still want to kill the Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.
In June 2023, the Weeknd stated in a Variety interview: "I'm finishing the third part of this saga, of this trilogy. The name of it will come out soon." Recording therefore coincided with his musical and acting work for The Idol (2023) and the After Hours til Dawn Tour. The Weeknd continued to work on the album after this, sharing images of recording sessions between September 2023 and February 2024 at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles, alongside frequent collaborators Oneohtrix Point Never, Mike Dean and Metro Boomin, among others.