The Weeknd has signed with WME in all areas, the company confirmed on Thursday, with the celebrity returning to the corporate after departing for CAA again in 2021.
WME signed the Canadian celebrity, born Abel Tesfaye, on the heels of his large North American stadium tour that’s slated to kick off in Glendale, Arizona, on Might 9 at State Farm Stadium. That tour will even characteristic Playboi Carti, whose third album Music is among the largest albums of the 12 months thus far. Additionally becoming a member of as a particular visitor is tremendous producer Mike Dean, a longtime Weeknd collaborator. The tour will take them via a lot of the U.S. and Canada earlier than wrapping in San Antonio in September.
WME additionally represents Tesfaye’s manufacturing firm Manic Part.
Tesfaye stays one of many music business’s largest stars, amassing 116 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify, and he’s the artist with essentially the most songs with a billion streams on the platform. He launched his sixth studio album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, again in January. That album topped Billboard’s albums chart, debuting with 490,500 items offered.
In Might, Lionsgate is ready to launch the movie Hurry Up Tomorrow, a companion to the album. The movie stars Tesfaye together with Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, whereas Trey Edward Shults directed the venture. It was produced by Manic Part together with Reza Fahim, Harrison Kreiss and Kevin Turen, who died in 2023. Government producer credit are Ortega, Shults, Ryan Kroft, Harrison Huffman, Stay Nation CEO Michael Rapino, and Weeknd supervisor Wassim “Sal” Slaiby.
Elsewhere within the movie and TV world, Tesfaye appeared in Uncut Gems again in 2019, and he co-created and co-starred in HBO’s The Idol reverse Lily-Rose Depp.
