The Weeknd discography
Recordings by Canadian singer and songwriter
The discography of Canadian singer and songwriter The Weeknd consists of six studio albums, two soundtrack album, one live album, three compilation albums, three mixtapes, one extended play, one remix album, 81 single releases and seven promotional singles. Luminate data shows that over the course of his career, The Weeknd has generated a whopping 36.2 million album consumption units in the U.S. alone through August 21, 2025. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), he has accumulated 132 million certified digital single units in the US, based on sales and on-demand streaming, as of December 2024.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Weeknd discography” as recordings by Canadian singer and songwriter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as recordings by Canadian singer and songwriter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2025 and 2024.
Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Weeknd discography” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.