Throughout the song, the Weeknd sings about the rekindling of a relationship and the importance of his partner. I'm just glad the world's into it now." Lyrics and composition Sometimes it helps me create a new sound and sometimes it's just obvious. You can hear it as far back as my first mixtape that the '80s - Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins - play such a huge role in my sound. It's not that I can't, but a collaboration is a relationship, it's like a marriage, you've gotta build up to it." In a Billboard interview, the Weeknd expressed his appreciation for music of the 1980s: "I've always had an admiration for the era before I was born. ĭuring an interview conducted by Jem Aswad from Variety magazine, the Weeknd discussed his experience working with Swedish songwriter-producer Max Martin, saying: "Max and I have become literally the best of friends, but I don't do that with many people. In the days after, he took to social media to announce his return to music with the captions "the fall starts tomorrow night" and "Tonight we start a new brain melting psychotic chapter! Let's go!". The full-length version of the commercial premiered on November 29, alongside the single. It shows the Weeknd driving a Mercedes-Benz EQC SUV and asking the system to play his new song. On November 24, 2019, a Mercedes-Benz commercial first aired on German TV featuring a clip of "Blinding Lights". He previously announced a project referred to as Chapter VI in June 2019. Īfter a five-month social media hiatus, the singer returned to Instagram on November 20, 2019, and posted six days later on November 26, 2019. "Blinding Lights" has three official remixes: one by electronic band Chromatics, one by electronic dance music group Major Lazer, and one featuring singer-songwriter Rosalía. It was also Spotify's most streamed song of 2020 with nearly 1.6 billion streams and is the 2nd most streamed song of all time on the platform, being the fastest song in history to reach the milestone of 2 billion streams on Spotify. The Weeknd's most successful single worldwide to date, "Blinding Lights" was the best-performing global single of 2020, earning 2.72 billion subscription stream equivalents globally according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). On November 23, 2021, it was ranked as the #1 Greatest Hot 100 Hit of All Time by Billboard. It has also topped the record charts in the United Kingdom and 31 other countries. The song finished 2020 as the year's top Billboard Hot 100 song. It is also the longest charting song on the Hot 100 of all-time at 90 weeks, ending the week of September 11, 2021. In the United States, the song topped the Hot 100 for four weeks, and went to become the song with most weeks spent in the top 5, top 10, top 20, top 40 and top 100 on the chart, as well as the first song to hold a spot in the top 10 on the chart for an entire year. "Blinding Lights" peaked at number one on the Canadian Hot 100, giving The Weeknd his fifth number-one hit on the chart. It was written and produced by The Weeknd, Max Martin and Oscar Holter, with Ahmad Balshe and Jason Quenneville receiving additional credits. " Blinding Lights" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd, released on November 29, 2019, through XO and Republic Records, as the second single from his fourth studio album, After Hours (2020). 2019 single by the Weeknd "Blinding Lights"
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