Yahoo Lifestyle The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Tops Albums Chart With Biggest Opening Week of 2025
The Weeknd’s “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with a staggering 490,500 equivalent album units, making it the biggest debut of 2025. That marks the largest week for any album since Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” debuted at No. 1 in May of 2024 (with 2.61 million).
This is the biggest debut week of the Weeknd’s five full-length releases (also the Weeknd’s largest sales week ever), surpassing “After Hours” by 6,000 units. Of “Hurry Up Tomorrow’s” nearly half-million units, album sales comprised 359,000 of that total, according to data from Luminate. It also logged a total of 171.5 million on-demand official streams of the songs.
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The 22-song album features several major special guests, including pioneering producer-composer Giorgio Moroder, who is best known for his work with Donna Summer on iconic disco-era hits like “I Feel Love” and “Love to Love You Baby.” Also on the tracklist: Anitta, Justice, Travis Scott, Florence + the Machine, Future, Lana Del Rey and Playboi Carti.
The album is also set to recieve its own film produced by Lionsgate and directed by Trey Edward Shults starring the Weeknd, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. The film is set to release on May 16. “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is a suspense thriller that features music from the new album.
In an interview with Variety, the Weeknd addressed his previous comments about retiring his moniker as the Weeknd in an album that is the final part of a trilogy, one that started with “After Hours” and “Dawn FM.”
“I don’t think I can stop doing [music],” he said. “But everything needs to feel like a challenge. And for me right now, the Weeknd, whatever that is, it’s been mastered. No one’s gonna do the Weeknd better than me, and I’m not gonna do it better than what it is right now. I think I’ve overcome every challenge as this persona, and that’s why I’m really excited about this film, because I love this challenge.”
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