The Weeknd will release their fifth album this Friday, “Dawn FM”

The Weeknd, one of the artists with the greatest global success of today, has announced today by surprise that his fifth studio album will be released imminently this Friday, January 7, and that it will be definitively titled Dawn FM.

“You have been too long in the dark and it is time to wake up to the light and accept your destiny with open arms,” ​​whispers the voice in off of a radio host in the expectation video published on his networks, in which the Canadian anticipates “a new sound universe”.

In it, he discovers a series of highly prestigious collaborators: Tyler The Creator, Lil Wayne y Onethrix Point Neverbesides the actor Jim Carrey. Also figure the veteran Quincy Jones, producer of the most iconic Michael Jackson albums: Off The Wall, Thriller Y Badas well as the song We Are The World.

From Dawn FM He already anticipated last August the first single, Take My Breath, which evidenced an approach to a more crude synthesizer electronics than in his last compositions.

Even if After Hours (2020), his previous album, did not garner any nominations at the 2021 Grammys, which caused the angry complaint of its author, it was considered by critics and the public as one of the albums of the year, with hits such as Blinding Lights, the second most played song in Spotify history.

Precisely his projection made him the protagonist of the musical intermission of the last Super Bowl, an event that coincided with the publication of The Highlights, a compilation with songs spanning the last ten years of his career.

The Weeknd, who has also participated in Rosalía’s most recent song, bachata Fame, has been involved in the last year in other projects, such as the series The Idol, in which he has starred, co-creator, co-writer and executive producer alongside Sam Levinson, the promoter of Euphoria.