The Weeknd‘s new album Hurry Up Tomorrow has arrived on the Billboard 200 with a bang – coming in at No. 1 and nearly going gold in just one week.
According to Billboard, the new LP earned 490,500 equivalent album units in the week ending February 6 – less than 10k units away from going gold. This marks the largest week for any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department moved 2.6 million units in May 2024 , and the biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album since Travis Scott’s Utopia moved 496k units in August 2023.
This is a significant increase from the XO singer’s last album, 2022’s Dawn FM, which sold 148k the first week and finished at No. 2 on the chart behind Gunna.
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.
