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 The Weeknd - The Highlights, 05/02/21 |
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 28th January 2021, 05:12 PM
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This is a potentially smart move by him and his label considering a lot of the older generations who probably aren't familiar with his music will be tuning into the Super Bowl but why oh why has the sublime Secrets been left off.
 It has widespread appeal across all generations and features on one of his biggest albums.  Let's refresh. |
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2nd February 2021, 11:46 AM
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I take this greatest hits in the same way as I did when P!nk released her one. Its a stop gap while the artist sorts out their next move from here. I bet this greatest hits wouldn't of existed if he was able to tour the last album. I will buy this complilation for the temporal gratification but I will probably just replay his last albums (especially Starboy and The Trilogy) to feel justified. He's got many years and albums to come. I'm not worried either way.
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2nd February 2021, 11:51 AM
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QUOTE(Scene @ Jan 28 2021, 05:12 PM)  This is a potentially smart move by him and his label considering a lot of the older generations who probably aren't familiar with his music will be tuning into the Super Bowl but why oh why has the sublime Secrets been left off. It has widespread appeal across all generations and features on one of his biggest albums.I totally agree. Secrets is awesome but thats why I'm glad the Starboy album is such a masterpiece. This is a cash in and I don't blame him or his label. Compilation sets helps the artist pick up the casual fans who won't invest in alot of songs they don't know. This also could get them to check out his back catalogue. |
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2nd February 2021, 01:21 PM
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I really am not keen on the sequencing on this. I prefer when Greatest try to separate eras out a bit more.
I'd have gone like: 1 Blinding Lights 2 Can't Feel My Face 3 Starboy and so on.. |
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2nd February 2021, 01:42 PM
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If it's a largely digital focused release with an accompanying CD then I don't really think the track listing makes too much difference. It's essentially just a label curated streaming playlist that people will likely just put on shuffle.
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2nd February 2021, 06:25 PM
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Gia, do you know the order of the solos?
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Super pleased to see Wicked Games on there since that was my gateway to The Weeknd
 QUOTE(365 @ Feb 2 2021, 05:21 AM) I really am not keen on the sequencing on this. I prefer when Greatest try to separate eras out a bit more. I think Save Your Tears is front and center to be pushed as the de facto title track for the GH since it’s the current single from After Hours. It’s almost like if an artist put out a new song to release a GH after moving on from the previous er, the difference being the current era is still going I'd have gone like: 1 Blinding Lights 2 Can't Feel My Face 3 Starboy and so on.. 
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4th February 2021, 12:56 PM
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QUOTE(soundseekerz @ Feb 2 2021, 12:46 PM) I take this greatest hits in the same way as I did when P!nk released her one. Its a stop gap while the artist sorts out their next move from here. I bet this greatest hits wouldn't of existed if he was able to tour the last album. I will buy this complilation for the temporal gratification but I will probably just replay his last albums (especially Starboy and The Trilogy) to feel justified. He's got many years and albums to come. I'm not worried either way. he just announced the reschedule of the album tour by the way. he also announced Rosalia as a guest performance with him at the Superbowl. |
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4th February 2021, 08:28 PM
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is my brain across your walls?
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I assume ROSALÍA is just going to be there to perform her part of the 'Blinding Lights' remix but here's hoping she'll be given a slot to perform one of her own songs as well xx
edit: I'm now seeing that he's said there aren't any guests so idk what the source of that was lol |
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5th February 2021, 10:05 AM
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his mixtapes / trilogy were certainly a peak for me.
I've liked a few songs since but that collection is just the one for me... so glad he's included 'the morning'. |
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5th February 2021, 10:25 AM
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 ‘psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!
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Isn't this going to hang around in the albums chart forever now?
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5th February 2021, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ Feb 4 2021, 12:56 PM) he also announced Rosalia as a guest performance with him at the Superbowl. The Weeknd has shut down any speculation that his Super Bowl LV Halftime Show will feature surprise guests. “I’ve been reading a lot of rumors... I wouldn’t bet on it,” he told sportscaster Kay Adams in a new interview for the NFL Network. “There wasn’t any room to fit it in the narrative, in the story I was telling in the performance. So yeah. There’s no special guests.” |
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5th February 2021, 03:14 PM
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QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Feb 5 2021, 10:25 AM) Isn't this going to hang around in the albums chart forever now? Na I think it'll fall away quicker than people are expecting. |
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5th February 2021, 03:59 PM
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I do as well. I'm not yet convinced that it's even going to chart particularly highly this week.
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8th February 2021, 07:58 PM
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Good start its number 5 in the mids, seeing a current artist release a greatest hits seems so weird but weird in a good way, blinding lights will help this alot with streaming and im assuming they know this will help keep it afloat with streams, should be an album that will sell over a long period in low numbers,
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17th February 2023, 05:44 PM
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‘psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!
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QUOTE(Dobbo. @ Feb 5 2021, 03:14 PM) Na I think it'll fall away quicker than people are expecting. Oops! 
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6th March 2023, 03:41 PM
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Hahaha we do like comments that age like sour milk. (Unless people's expectations were 10+ years
)TBF what other "recent" greatest hits albums have ever hang around like this? This post has been edited by Dobbo.: 6th March 2023, 03:41 PM |
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6th March 2023, 04:08 PM
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is my brain across your walls?
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Well The Weeknd is fairly unique in having so many simultaneously viral songs! I imagine Arctic Monkeys might have similar success if they dropped a GH around now too?
Little Mix, Eminem, XXXTENTACION and Nicki Minaj have recent-ish GH albums with a basically permanent presence in at least the top 100 too. (The latter two being ones that never sold any significant number of pure sales lol) |
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25th August 2023, 05:39 PM
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The album is back at its peak of #2 this week in the UK (6 weeks now at #2 in total) after his final London show last Friday. I wonder if this will ever get a week at #1. I think all he needs to do is do some sort of vinyl release on a release where nothing major is out and he’ll take it! What a run this has had though! (Even if it’s definitely down to streaming) This post has been edited by Jord: 25th August 2023, 10:54 PM |
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9th February 2024, 07:53 AM
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Jord
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So there’s now a deluxe version of this with 18 additional tracks (which include some of the Idol soundtrack hits and tracks from Dawn FM era which came out after the original version of this).
So this should keep in the charts for *even* longer. It would be something if it could sneak a week at #1 but even with the additional streams I think it would take a new physical CD / vinyl to really push it but I imagine this will give it another year of healthy sales. |
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9th February 2024, 08:25 AM
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healthy sales? sure lol
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