Grammy Award-nominated multi-platinum alternative R&B trailblazer THE WEEKND has revealed the tracklisting to his highly anticipated third full-length offering, Beauty Behind The Madness (XO/Republic Records).
It was revealed that the album will include 14 tracks and feature appearances from Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey and Labrinth.
The album, which saw a #1 debut with the iTunes pre-order, already has four of the previously released tracks certified platinum by the RIAA, “Can’t Feel My Face”, “The Hills” “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” and “Often”. The video to the #1 hit single “Can’t Feel My Face”, which premiered just last week, was directed by Grant Singer who also directed the video for “The Hills”, which now has over 100 million views.
Full tracklisting is below.
BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS:
Real Life
Losers featuring Labrinth
Tell Your Friends
Often
The Hills
Acquainted
Can’t Feel My Face
Shameless
Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)
In The Night
As You Are
Dark Times featuring Ed Sheeran
Prisoner featuring Lana Del Rey
Angel
THE WEEKND recently achieved a Billboard first when he claimed the top three slots on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs as “Can’t Feel My Face”, “The Hills” and “Earned It” hit #1, #2 and #3 respectively. 2015 has been a breakout year for THE WEEKND, he is just the third artist to have two songs in the Top 10 of the Hot 100 simultaneously in 2015, and the first male. Only Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor have previously held that honor this year. Currently, the album’s first official single “Can’t Feel My Face” sits at #2 while “The Hills” sits at #11 and “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” sits at #30. The Weeknd also recently hit #1 on the Artist 100 chart, a chart that blends data measuring album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
“Can’t Feel My Face” is also seeing huge global success with the track debuting Top 5 in over 33 markets including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and Denmark. Written by THE WEEKND and co-produced by pop powerhouse Max Martin, it’s no surprise that the track is already being hailed as the best song of 2015 by outlets like USA Today and Radio.com.
A festival showstopper, THE WEEKND recently headlined this year’s Lollapalooza music festival joining the likes of Paul McCartney, Metallica and Florence + the Machine and he also capped off a closing set at Coachella 2015 to rave reviews.
