“Hurry Up Tomorrow” by The Weeknd Achieves Incredible Chart Debut

The Weeknd has combined pop, R&B, and alternative elements for over ten years to create a unique sound that appeals to listeners all over the world.

He has continuously produced critically acclaimed and successful ventures, such as Starboy and After Hours.

His recent album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 490,500 equivalent album units in the U.S., is the biggest debut of 2025.

It is also the most successful week for an R&B/hip-hop album since Travis Scott’s “Utopia,” which debuted at the top of the chart with 496,000 copies on August 12, 2023.

This is a career milestone for The Weeknd, as it represents his highest first-week sales to date, surpassing the 444,000-unit launch of After Hours in 2020.

Additionally, it is the biggest album debut since Taylor Swift’s May 2024 release of The Tortured Poets Department.

Its launch of 490,500 units marks The Weeknd’s largest week in terms of units earned (since the chart started counting in units in December 2014)

Considering that his last album, Dawn FM (2022), sold 148,000 copies at launch, Hurry Up Tomorrow represents a significant advancement.

With 6,000 more copies sold than “After Hours,” this is the Weeknd’s highest sales week ever and biggest debut week of his five full-length LPs.

The album’s enormous first-week sales figures are the result of both streaming and direct sales, selling 359,000 digital and physical copies and 130,500 streaming equivalent (SEA) units, translating to about 171.5 million on-demand streams.

This makes “Hurry Up Tomorrow’ a unique album as it is still selling a lot of hard and digital copies in a time when streaming is the norm.

The End of “The Weeknd”

In a 2023 interview with W Magazine, The Weeknd stated his ambitions to wrap up the “The Weeknd” chapter, hinting to upcoming musical ventures under his given name, Abel Tesfaye.

In a recent interview with Variety, The Weeknd addressed his earlier remarks regarding retiring his stage name as the Weeknd.

He talked about retiring the name in an album that is the final part of a trilogy, one that started with “After Hours” and “Dawn FM.”

The last part of the trilogy, “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” is set to receive it’s own movie produced by Lionsgate and directed by Trey Edward Shults.

The movie will be a suspense thriller starring the Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan. It will feature music from the new album and will be released on May 16.

Even though Tesfaye’s career as The Weeknd is coming to an end, he hasn’t ruled out doing other things.