The Weeknd is bringing his new album to Southern California.
The pop-soul singer introduced Wednesday that his new LP, “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” might be launched Jan. 24 and that he’ll mark the event with a live performance the subsequent day on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
“Hurry Up Tomorrow” is the follow-up to 2022’s “Dawn FM” and completes a trilogy, The Weeknd says, that started with “After Hours” in 2020. The album may even be launched a yr and a half after “The Idol” concludes , the much-talked-about HBO collection a couple of cult-leader-like pop star that the Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye) made with co-star Lily-Rose Depp and “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson.
The Weeknd launched three singles from “Hurry Up Tomorrow”: “Dancing within the Flames”, “Timeless” and “São Paulo”. “Timeless,” that includes Playboi Carti — and with which the Weeknd carried out at this month’s Camp Flog Gnaw pageant — is presently at No. 14 on Billboard’s Hot 100; “Dancing within the Flames” sits at No. 55 after peaking at No. 14.
According to a launch, the Weeknd’s Jan. 25 Rose Bowl live performance might be a full-scale expertise, with a stage “taking on your entire ground of the stadium.” Tickets for the present will go on sale Monday.