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The Weeknd is officially known online by his real name – Abel Mekonn Tesfaye after planning to update on social media.
On Monday, the Canadian artist’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were updated to show his birth name instead of his stage name.
And the change is “part of a broader plan to kill the week,” Tesfaye told W magazine in an interview published on May 8.
“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he said.
“It’s getting to the point and time where I’m getting ready to close the chapter for the week. I still make music, maybe like Abel, maybe like The Weeknd. But I still wanna kill The Weeknd. I will too. at last. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be born again.
And Tesfaye revealed that his upcoming album could be The Weeknd’s swansong.
“The album I’m working on right now is probably my last hurray for The Weeknd,” he told W Magazine.
“This is something I have to do. Like The Weeknd, I’ve said everything I can say.”
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In March, Guinness World Records (GWR) announced that the singer-songwriter is statistically the most popular musician on the planet.
The 33-year-old bagged two new Guinness World Records. He had the most monthly listeners on Spotify, with 111.4 million as of March 20, and also became the first artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners.
According to GWR, the remix of “Die for You” featuring Ariana Grande has been promoted on Tik Tok in part due to the increase in listeners.
The track went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 – the seventh time of the weekend at the top spot. The original “Die For You” was released on the album “Starboy” in 2016.
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