The title track featuring Daft Punk broke the record for "Most Release Weekend Streams Ever" upon its release. In November 2016, with its lead single Starboy quickly climbing the charts and going on to sell over 3 million copies, The Weeknd released his highly-anticipated third studio album of the same name, which has since become one of his best-selling projects to date, amassing over 5 billion streams on Spotify and selling over five million copies worldwide. The song incorporates themes of the extravagance associated with a celebrity lifestyle, as. 'Starboy' is a Jamaican slang for someone who is seen as cool or important, even if it’s just amongst their colleagues. The song features French electronic duo Daft Punk. Of the Weeknd’s overall numbers, 209,000 were in. 'Starboy' is the lead single off The Weeknds upcoming third studio album of the same name. 1 album in the country with first week sales of 348,000 equivalent album units. The Weeknd will be hoping to prove just how much of a Starboy he is on November 25th. The Weeknd's fourth full-length album 'Starboy' is now set for release, and anticipate is an understatement. According to data from Billboard, The Weeknd claimed the No. "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)" even garnered The Weeknd his first ever Academy Award nomination in the category of "Best Original Song." Featuring artists Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Daft Punk and. Starting off his career anonymously, The Weeknd first broke into the music scene with the 2011 mixtape 'House of Balloons,' followed by studio album 'Kiss Land' in 2013, and the widely recognized 'Beauty Behind the Madness' that earned him two Grammy Awards in 2015, an RIAA triple-platinum certification for cumulative sales in excess of 3 million, 16 RIAA certifications from tracks alone with "The Hills", "Can't Feel My Face", "Often", "In The Night", and "Acquainted". Selling an equivalent of 348,000 in the sales, this album is a solid listen, through and through. This marks his second number one debut and the third-largest debut of the year (Views, Lemonade). The album clocked in at 348,000 in first-week sales with 209,000 in traditional sales. This week, his junior set Starboy, reached the highest spot on the Billboard 200. /s/files/1/0024/9803/5810/products/315732-Product-0-I_small.jpgīrand new offering from R&B wunderkid The Weeknd, featuring the single "Starboy" with Daft Punk. The Weeknd’s star power keeps getting brighter.