Abel Tesfaye has hinted that he's planning to retire the Weeknd as a stage name, but that might no longer be the case.

The Weeknd is walking back his plan to retire the stage name, telling a Stockholm crowd he 'tested retirement' and didn't ...

Black women in pop music is not anything new, but recently, we've noticed a host of new voices shaping and leaving their mark on the current landscape. We're using that term, "pop," loosely — ahead, ...

The proposed change was never meant to signal the end of his music career. Instead, Tesfaye described it as an attempt to close a creative chapter, shed the character he had built and determine what ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Abel Tesfaye is known worldwide as "The Weeknd", a name he thought he would leave behind. However, after some deliberation, the music ...

In January 2025, The Weeknd - real name Abel Tesfaye - revealed he was "closing this chapter" on his stage persona.

Abel Tesfaye has hinted that he's planning to retire the Weeknd as a stage name, but that might no longer be the case.

The Weeknd has seemingly changed his mind about retirement. A year after discussing the possibility of stepping away from ...

In an interview with The Washington Post, music superstar Abel Tesfaye, also known as The Weeknd, recommended a game called ...

More than a year after The Weeknd teased plans to retire his long-held stage name, the singer seems to have had a change of ...

While he’s breaking records touring as the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye is gaming — a lot. He got in touch to talk “About Fishing.” ...

Music industry superstar The Weeknd has been playing through a popular JRPG series, and he has now shown off a brand new tattoo to the world. Pop superstar The Weeknd, who is now one of the most ...