While the rest of the world's headlines get drearier by the day, The Weeknd just keeps winning. The artist born Abel Tesfaye scores his fourth consecutive No.
1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week with his After Hours set, moving 444,000 first-week album equivalent units -- not only a career best, but the best first-week numbers of any artist in 2020.What's more, The Weeknd matches that with another No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100, as After Hours single "Blinding Lights" replaces Roddy Ricch's "The Box" atop the chart -- making it his fifth song to best the listing, and second off After Hours (following "Heartless" last December).