The Weeknd is now officially known online by his real name — Abel Makkonen Tesfaye — after following through on plans to update his social media accounts.
And the change is part of a wider plan to"kill The Weeknd," Tesfaye told W Magazine in an interview published May 8."It's getting to a place and a time where I'm getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. I'll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "The album I'm working on now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd," he told W Magazine.In March, Guinness World Records announced that the singer-songwriter is statistically the most popular musician on the planet.
A surge in listens was fueled in part by the fact that a remix of"Die for You," featuring Ariana Grande, went viral on TikTok, according to GWR.
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