The Weeknd has shared details of a “one-night-only” show in Brazil, which will see him introduce a “never-before-seen production” into the set.
Announced today (July 18), the one-off gig is set to take place at the Estádio MorumBIS venue in São Paulo on Friday, September 7. It follows on from the singer – real name Abel Tesfaye – embarking on his ‘After Hours Til Dawn Tour’ over the past two years.
Now, unlike his record-breaking tour, which saw him perform across North America, Europe, the UK and Latin America and draw over 3million visitors, the forthcoming show in Brazil will see a new performance put forward. This is expected to include a mixed-up setlist to previous shows and “never-before-seen production”.
It will also see Tesfaye join forces with the UN World Food Programme, and donate $1 (77p) from every ticket sold to the XO Humanitarian Fund in a bid to end the global hunger crisis.
Tickets go on sale next Thursday (July 25) at 10am BRT, and artist presales will be available as early as next Monday (July 22). Visit here to buy yours.
The announcement of the new show comes just days after The Weeknd shared a series of cryptic social media posts, suggesting to fans that he is about to enter a new era.
He has been teasing his return as far back as January, suggesting that his upcoming sixth record would be the last volume of an ‘After Hours’/’Dawn FM’ trilogy. At the start of the month, a short video was posted to Tesfaye’s social media, suggesting that new material is imminent. In it, he stares with glassy eyes at the camera. It was accompanied by a photo of some woods at night.
His support of the UN World Food Programme also comes as an extension of all of the funds he has raised for the non-profit organisation in the past. Back in April for instance, the artist pledged $2million (£1.6million) from his XO Humanitarian Fund to help feed families in war-torn Gaza.
According to the World Food Programme (WFP), the donation provided over 1,500 metric tons of fortified wheat flour, which will be used to make roughly 18 million loaves of bread that can help feed more than 157,000 Palestinians for a month.
In other news about The Weeknd, it was reported earlier this year that his huge hit single ‘Blinding Lights’ had become the first song in history to reach 4billion streams on Spotify.
Named Spotify’s most-streamed song of all time, the track featured on his ‘After Hours’ album, which was released at the end of 2019. At time of writing it had spent over 100 weeks in the charts.
In that time, it set a new record for most weeks in the Top Five of the chart (43), Top 10 (57 weeks) and Top 40 (86 weeks), and replaced Chubby Checker’s 1960 hit ‘The Twist’ as the biggest US Billboard Hot 100 single of all time.
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