The Weeknd videography
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Canadian singer The Weeknd has been featured in sixty-two music videos. A noted cinephile, many of his music videos were inspired by various films.{{Cite web|title=Movie References in The Weeknd's After Hours You Never Noticed|url=https://www.moviefone.com/2021/02/16/movie-references-in-the-weeknds-after-hours-you-never-noticed/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=www.moviefone.com|language=en}} From his compilation album Trilogy (2012), Tesfaye released four music videos for the songs "The Knowing", "Rolling Stone", "Wicked Games" and "The Zone", which featured Drake.{{Cite web|title=The Weeknd - "The Zone" (Ft. Drake) Music Video|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/r3dbb6/the-weeknd-the-zone-ft-drake-music-video|access-date=November 14, 2021|website=www.vice.com|date=November 8, 2012 |language=en}} For his debut studio album Kiss Land (2013), he released five music videos for the title track, "Twenty Eight", "Belong to the World", "Live For" and "Pretty".{{Cite magazine|title=The Weeknd Releases 'Belong To The World' Video, Talks 'Kiss Land' Album|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/1726975/the-weeknd-releases-belong-to-the-world-video-talks-kiss-land|access-date=November 15, 2021|magazine=Billboard|language=en}}
For his second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015), he released five music videos for the songs "Often", "The Hills", "Can't Feel My Face", "Tell Your Friends" and "In the Night".{{Cite web|date=May 27, 2015|title=The Weeknd "The Hills" Music Video|url=https://hypebeast.com/2015/5/the-weeknd-the-hills-music-video|access-date=November 14, 2021|website=HYPEBEAST}} Three of the five music videos were directed by Grant Singer.{{Cite magazine|title=How Troye Sivan, Lorde & The Weeknd Collaborator Grant Singer Became Pop's Go-To Music Video Auteur|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/lifestyle/8094872/taylor-swift-troye-sivan-lorde-the-weeknd-collaborator-grant-singer-director-music-video-interview|access-date=November 15, 2021|magazine=Billboard|language=en}} He also released a music video for the remix of "The Hills", which featured Eminem.{{Cite web|title=Watch The Weeknd's Virtual Reality Music Video For "The Hills" Remix|url=https://www.thefader.com/2015/10/20/watch-the-weeknds-virtual-reality-music-video-for-the-hills-remix|access-date=November 14, 2021|website=The FADER|language=en}} In 2021, he released an alternate music video for "Can't Feel My Face".{{Cite web|date=September 3, 2021|title=Watch The Weeknd's new alternate video for 'Can't Feel My Face'|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-the-weeknds-new-alternate-video-for-cant-feel-my-face-3036519|access-date=November 14, 2021|website=NME|language=en-GB}}
In support of his third studio album Starboy (2016), Tesfaye released six music videos for the title track, "False Alarm", "Party Monster", "Reminder", "I Feel It Coming" and "Secrets".{{Cite web|last=Farley|first=Rebecca|title=The Weeknd's New Video Teases A Whole New Weeknd|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2016/09/124765/weeknd-starboy-music-video|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=www.refinery29.com|language=en-GB}} He also released the short film Mania, which featured additional songs from the album.{{Cite web|last=Murthi|first=Vikram|date=November 24, 2016|title=The Weeknd Releases New Short Film 'Mania': Watch the Violent, Eye-Popping Video|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/11/the-weeknd-short-film-mania-starboy-abel-tesfaye-1201749837/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=IndieWire|language=en}} The music video for the title track won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video.{{Cite web|last=Rys|first=Dan|date=November 6, 2016|title=MTV EMAs: The Weeknd Performs 'Starboy'|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mtv-emas-weeknd-performs-starboy-944600/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}} For his debut extended play My Dear Melancholy, (2018), Tesfaye released two music videos for "Call Out My Name" and "Try Me"; the latter video was self-directed.{{Cite magazine|title=The Weeknd Drops Sensual 'Try Me' Vertical Video to Celebrate 'My Dear Melancholy' Anniversary|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9548934/the-weeknd-try-me-video/|access-date=November 15, 2021|magazine=Billboard|language=en}}
For his fourth studio album After Hours (2020), Tesfaye released seven music videos of the songs "Heartless", "Blinding Lights", "In Your Eyes", "Until I Bleed Out", "Snowchild", "Too Late" and "Save Your Tears".{{Cite web|title=Watch the Weeknd's New "Heartless" Video {{!}} Pitchfork|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-the-weeknds-new-heartless-video/amp/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=pitchfork.com|date=December 3, 2019 }} He also released a short film for the title track and a lyric/music video for the remix of "Blinding Lights" with Rosalía.{{Cite web|date=December 4, 2020|title=Rosalía y The Weeknd lanzan pistas sobre una colaboración|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20201204/49863952081/rosalia-y-the-weeknd-lanzan-pistas-sobre-una-colaboracion.html|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=La Vanguardia|language=es}} In all of the videos for the After Hours era, Tesfaye played a singular character donned in a red suit and a specific hairstyle.{{Cite magazine|last=Holmes|first=Charles|date=February 13, 2020|title=The Weeknd and His Mustache Announce New Album|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-weeknd-new-album-after-hours-952501/|access-date=November 15, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}} Four of the seven music videos, as well as the short film, were directed by Anton Tammi; while two of the videos were directed by Cliqua. The original video for "Blinding Lights" won the MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best R&B Video.{{Cite news|date=August 31, 2020|title=The Weeknd wins video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-vma-idUSKBN25R08J|access-date=November 15, 2021}}{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=PopCrush|title=The Weeknd Says It's 'Hard to Celebrate' Video of the Year Win at 2020 MTV VMAs|url=https://popcrush.com/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-video-of-the-year-winner-2020-vmas/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=PopCrush|date=August 31, 2020 |language=en}}
To promote his fifth studio album Dawn FM (2022), The Weeknd released six music video's up til now, for the songs "Take My Breath", "Sacrifice", "Gasoline", "Out of Time", "How Do I Make You Love Me?" and "Is There Someone Else?". A part of the title track "Dawn FM" is included in the "Sacrifice" music video. He also released two one-minute trailers for the album, and made a music video for the remix of "Sacrifice" by Swedish House Mafia on the deluxe version of the album, Dawn FM (Alternate World), and a music video with Swedish House Mafia, for the song "Moth to a Flame", also on Dawn FM (Alternate World). Five of the eight music video's were (co-)directed by Cliqua.
Tesfaye has appeared in several television shows, including co-writing and starring in an episode of American Dad!{{Cite web|last=Ford|first=Rebecca|date=June 27, 2020|title=How The Weeknd's 'American Dad' Episode Was the "Birth of a True Partnership"|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/how-weeknds-american-dad-was-birth-a-true-partnership-1299815/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}} and making a guest appearance in Robot Chicken.{{Cite web|title=The Weeknd Voices Multiple Characters in 'Robot Chicken' Appearance|url=https://www.complex.com/music/2020/07/the-weeknd-voices-multiple-characters-robot-chicken-appearance|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=Complex|language=en}} After appearing in the concert film Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live and the documentary Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, Tesfaye made his feature film debut in Uncut Gems (2019).{{Cite web|last=Willman|first=Chris|date=September 10, 2019|title=How the Weeknd Came to Play Himself in the Safdie Brothers' Berserk 'Uncut Gems'|url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/the-weeknd-acting-safdie-brothers-uncut-gems-1203329975/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=Variety|language=en-US}} He was later the focus of the 2021 documentary The Show, which followed his preparations for the Super Bowl LV halftime show.{{Cite magazine|last=Martoccio|first=Angie|date=September 1, 2021|title=The Weeknd's Super Bowl Halftime Performance Gets Showtime Documentary|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-weeknds-super-bowl-halftime-performance-gets-showtime-documentary-1219524/|access-date=November 15, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}} His first concert film, The Weeknd: Live at SoFi Stadium which showcases his After Hours til Dawn Tour is scheduled for release exclusively on HBO Max on February 25.
Music videos
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File:Drake July 2016.jpg was featured in "The Zone", "Live For" and "Reminder".|alt=Drake]]
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| style="background:#bdf;" scope="row"| "Rolling Stone"{{*|alt=Music videos directed by the Weeknd}}
| rowspan="3"| 2012 | {{n/a|None}} | rowspan="3" | The Weeknd | style="text-align:left;"|Filmed in a dimly lit studio in black and white, Tesfaye paints the relationship he has with his fans. |
| style="background:#bdf;" scope="row"| "Wicked Games"{{*|alt=Music videos directed by the Weeknd}}
| {{n/a|None}} | style="text-align:left;"|Filmed in black and white, Tesfaye performs while the shadow of a model pulls him in. |
| style="background:#bdf;" scope="row"| "The Zone"{{*|alt=Music videos directed by the Weeknd}}
| Drake | style="text-align:left;"|The video features psychedelic shots of Tesfaye, Drake and several women with a plethora of balloons. |
| scope="row" | "Twenty Eight"
| rowspan="7" | 2013 | {{n/a|None}} | +IAN (Christian Yu) | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye has a confrontation with a mysterious man. |
| scope="row" | "One of Those Nights"
| Juicy J | Sam Pilling | style="text-align:left;"|A gunman confronts Tesfaye after robbing a bar. |
| scope="row" | "Kiss Land"
| {{n/a|None}} | Andrew Baird | style="text-align:left;"|Set in Japan, the video contains a lot of NSFW footage. |
| scope="row" | "Belong to the World"
| {{n/a|None}} | Roh Sang Yoon (filmbyteam) | style="text-align:left;"|Set in Japan, Tesfaye finds himself among the ranks of a military regime who go out for a night on the town. |
| scope="row" | "Live For"
| Drake | rowspan="2" | Sam Pilling | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye and Drake perform in a dark studio and subway. |
| scope="row" | "Pretty"
| {{n/a|None}} | style="text-align:left;"|The video revolves around Tesfaye murdering his unfaithful lover |
| scope="row" | "Gifted"
| Bang Jaeyeob | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye and French Montana perform in a club and in an alleyway. |
| scope="row" | "Or Nah" {{Small|(remix)}}
| rowspan="4" | 2014 | Ty Dolla Sign | Ryan Patrick | style="text-align:left;"|The video features Ty Dolla Sign, Wiz Khalifa, DJ Mustard and Tesfaye performing in a horror-like setting with several women. |
| scope="row" | "Often"
| Jesi Le Rae | Sam Pilling | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye is filmed in a hotel room surrounded by women. |
| scope="row" | "King of the Fall"
| {{n/a|None}} | Kid Studio | style="text-align:left;"|The video follows Tesfaye walking through his hometown of Toronto. |
| scope="row" | "Love Me Harder"
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ppByZPNTp_Awjev_VHF8fw1E-H7Pftm NOVVKIM] | style="text-align:left;"|Grande and Tesfaye perform while withstanding natural elements. |
| scope="row" | "Earned It"
| rowspan="7" | 2015 | style="text-align:left;"|As Tesfaye performs, Johnson and several other women perform a BDSM-themed burlesque dance behind him. |
| scope="row" | "The Hills"
| Sophie Dalah | rowspan="3" | Guzza (Kudo) | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye is seen crawling out of a wrecked car that has flipped over. As he walks down the street, he is enragedly pushed by a woman, but he ignores her and the vehicle implodes. He goes into a house, walks up the stairs to a red coloredly lit up room with Wilder (representing a personification of the devil) there with two groupies on a couch. |
| scope="row" | "Can't Feel My Face"
| style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye performs at a bar to an unimpressed audience, with the exception of a seduced Iman, a woman throws a cup of unknown liquid on Tesfaye until Wilder arrives and sets him on fire by throwing a lighter on him and all the bar patrons cheer and start dancing, and Tesfaye continues performing, then leaves the club and leans into the camera and begins to melt it. |
| scope="row" | "Tell Your Friends"
| style="text-align:left;"|After burying himself in the desert, Tesfaye is approached by Wilder who Tesfaye shoots then drives away at high speed. |
| scope="row" | "The Hills" {{Small|(remix)}}
| +IAN (Christian Yu) | style="text-align:left;"|As a part of an advertisement for Apple Music, the video follows Tesfaye as he leaves a venue and heads for a limo, driven by Travolta, taking him to an afterparty. |
| scope="row" | "In the Night"
| [https://www.rigend.com/ RIGEND FLIM STUDIO] | style="text-align:left;"|The video follows Hadid as a waitress at a nightclub who kills off gangsters who were taken advantage of her. |
| scope="row" | "Might Not"
| Belly | style="text-align:left;"|After Belly and Tesfaye get intoxicated at a party, the two fear that they might not make it out. |
| scope="row" | "Low Life"
| rowspan="3" | 2016 | Future | Hobin | style="text-align:left;"|The video features Future and Tesfaye performing in a prison-like setting. Belly and French Montana make cameo appearances in the video. |
| scope="row" | "Starboy"
| Guzza (Kudo) | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye reinvents himself by killing his former persona after sitting on the opposite end of a dining table wearing a mask and then ties up and suffocates the former persona with a plastic bag, and then proceeds to smash all his awards in his hills residence with a neon crucifix and then drives a red McLaren P1 with a black panther (originally a house cat) riding upfront along winding cliff roads. At the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards, it won Best Video. |
| scope="row" | "False Alarm"
| Kristine Froseth | OJun Kwon | style="text-align:left;"|The video follows a bank robbery through the first-person perspective of one of the robbers. |
| scope="row" | "Party Monster"
| rowspan="8" | 2017 | Zoi Mantzakanis | RIGEND FLIM STUDIO | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye is seen driving through the desert before the psychedelics kicks in and he's transported to a whole new world. |
| scope="row" | "Reminder"
|Drake | Kid Studio | style="text-align:left;"|Released on Tesfaye's 27th birthday, the video features an all-star cast of rappers. |
| scope="row" | "Some Way"
| Nav | RJ Sanchez | style="text-align:left;"|Nav and Tesfaye perform whilst surrounded by women. |
| scope="row" | "I Feel It Coming"
| Hong Minho (Studio Achilles) | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye performs the song and meets Mizuhara on a rocky, barren planet in outer space. |
| scope="row" | "Lust for Life"
| Keep Us Weird (salt film) | style="text-align:left;"|Del Rey and Tesfaye are seen together on the top of the "H" on the Hollywood Sign. |
| scope="row" | "Secrets"
| Black Atlass | Yoon Seokyoung | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye wanders through mysterious anomalies in search of Donker, who is also being pursued by Black Atlass. |
| scope="row" | "A Lie"
| Spiff TV | style="text-align:left;"|French Montana, Max B and Tesfaye perform in various locations in New York City. |
| scope="row" | "Curve"
| David Helman | style="text-align:left;"|The black and white video shows populating clones of Gucci Mane and Tesfaye. |
| style="background:#bdf;" scope="row"| "Try Me"{{*|alt=Music videos directed by the Weeknd}}
| rowspan="3" | 2018 | {{n/a|None}} | style="text-align:left;"|Originally released as an exclusive vertical video on Spotify, the video was formally released to celebrate the three-year anniversary of the release of Tesfaye's debut extended play My Dear Melancholy (2018). |
| scope="row" | "Call Out My Name"
| {{n/a|None}} | Guzza (Kudo) | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye wanders through empty streets and a desert. |
| scope="row" | "What You Want"
| Belly | Paranoid Paradigm (VM Project Architecture) | style="text-align:left;"|Belly and Tesfaye drive through a prison yard. |
| scope="row" | "Lost in the Fire"
| rowspan="4" | 2019 | Manu Cossu | style="text-align:left;"|Gesaffelstien and Tesfaye dance slowly in a dark setting. |
| scope="row" | "Price on My Head"
| Nav | Kid. Studio | style="text-align:left;"|The video focuses on Belly and Tesfaye's hometown of Toronto being burned down. |
| scope="row" | "Power Is Power"
| Roh Sang Yoon (filmbyteam) | style="text-align:left;"|Inspired by the television series Game of Thrones, Tesfaye, SZA and Scott take turns sitting on the throne. |
| scope="row" | "Heartless"
| rowspan="4" | Vikings League | style="text-align:left;"|The video focuses on Tesfaye and Metro Boomin as they explore Las Vegas. It ends with Tesfaye licking a psychoactive toad and experiencing hallucinations. |
| scope="row"| "Blinding Lights"
| rowspan="6"| 2020 | Miki Hamano | style="text-align:left;"|Beginning with Tesfaye laughing while blood drips down his face, the video shows flashbacks to decipher how he got to this gruesome end. At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, it won Video of the Year and Best R&B Video. |
| scope="row"| "In Your Eyes"
| Zaina Miuccia | style="text-align:left;"|Following the events of the After Hours short film, Tesfaye chases Miuccia through different locations before she decapitates him with an axe. |
| scope="row"| "Until I Bleed Out"
| {{n/a|None}} | style="text-align:left;"|The video shows a dazed Tesfaye navigating through a balloon-filled mansion in a lost and damaged manner. |
| scope="row"| "Too Late"
| Ashley Smith | 96wave | style="text-align:left;"|A heavily bandaged Smith and Harr find Tesfaye's severed head on the street and transplants it onto another man's body. |
| scope="row"| "Hawái" {{Small|(remix)}}
| Maluma | Jessy Terrero | style="text-align:left;"|The remix serves as a continuation for the original video. |
| scope="row"| "Blinding Lights" {{Small|(remix)}}
| Rosalía | Dylan Coughran | style="text-align:left;"|The video follows Tesfaye and Rosalía during a photoshoot. |
| scope="row" | "Save Your Tears"
| rowspan="12" | 2021 | Bianca Rojas | 96wave | style="text-align:left;"|A disfigured Tesfaye performs at a lavish nightclub. |
| scope="row"| "You Right"
| Doja Cat | Quentin Deronzier | style="text-align:left;"|The video is set in a majestic palace in the galaxy with heavy astrological influences. |
| scope="row"| "Better Believe"
| FLIPEVIL | style="text-align:left;"|The video features Tesfaye, Belly and Young Thug in an explosive environment. |
| scope="row"| "Take My Breath"
| Shaina West | 96wave | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye and West dance together and exchange breaths through an oxygen tank at a pulsating nightclub, before Tesfaye's breath is literally taken away as he gets strangled in West's braids. |
| scope="row"| "Die for It"
| James Larese | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye, Nas and Belly perform in a dystopian-like world. |
| scope="row"| "Can't Feel My Face" {{Small|(Alternate Version)}}
| Ricky Saiz | style="text-align:left;"|Released to celebrate the six-year anniversary of the release of Tesfaye's second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). |
| scope="row"| "Moth to a Flame"
| Alexander Wessely | style="text-align:left;"|The video serves as a continuation of Swedish House Mafia's previous videos for the singles It Gets Better and Lifetime. |
| scope="row"| "La Fama"
| Jihye Yoon | style="text-align:left;"|Rosalía performs at a dimly lit nightclub and seduces Tesfaye into joining her onstage. The two dance together until Tesfaye is stabbed by Rosalía with a hidden dagger. |
| scope="row"| "One Right Now"
| SL8 | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye and Malone engage in a violent shootout with their respective teams. |
| scope="row"|"Die For You"
| {{n/a|None}} |FLIPEVIL | style="text-align:left;"|Music video released for the fifth anniversary of Starboy's release. The video pays tribute to Stranger Things and E.T. |
| scope="row"| "Tears in the Club"
| Amber Grace Johnson | style="text-align:left;"|The video features Tesfaye watching FKA Twigs perform in a tank with tears in his eyes. |
| scope="row"| "Echoes of Silence"
| {{n/a|None}} |Kurando Furuya | style="text-align:left;"|Music video released for the tenth anniversary of Echoes of Silence's release. |
| scope="row"| "Sacrifice"
| rowspan="5"| 2022 | {{n/a|None}} | 96wave | style="text-align:left;"|After the events of the "Take My Breath" music video, Tesfaye wakes up and gets abducted by some cloaked figures. He is tied up and his soul gets taken by an unknown red cloaked woman. |
| scope="row"| "Gasoline"
| {{n/a|None}} | Tedynotbear |style="text-align:left;"|An older version of Tesfaye finds himself trapped in a disturbing dance party. As he tries to escape, he sees a younger version of himself amongst the crowd, with tears streaming down his face. When the two meet, the younger version attacks the older version and leaves him bruised. |
| scope="row"| "Sacrifice" {{Small|(Alternate World Remix)}}
| rowspan="2"| 96wave |style="text-align:left;"|Taking place in an alternate reality, Tesfaye and Swedish House Mafia watch a ballroom scene competition. |
| scope="row"| "Out of Time"
|style="text-align:left;"|After the events of the "Gasoline" music video, the younger version of Tesfaye and Jung sing karaoke and begin a whirlwind romance alone in a hotel. His older version tries to reach out, but wakes up in an operating room as Carrey places a mask on his face. The video pays homage to Lost in Translation (2003). |
| scope="row"| "How Do I Make You Love Me?"
| {{n/a|None}} | Jocelyn Charles |style="text-align:left;"|Animation directed by Jocelyn Charles. Creative direction and concept by Cliqua. | |
| scope="row"| "Is There Someone Else?"
| rowspan="3" | 2023 | Mackenzee Wilson | 96wave |style="text-align:left;"|Starring Tesfaye & Mackenzee Wilson. | |
| scope="row"| "Creepin'" {{Small|(remix)}}
|Metro Boomin |FLIPEVIL |style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye, Metro Boomin, Diddy and 21 Savage are surveilled by a mystery woman on a rainy night. Mario Winans, the original artist of I Don't Wanna Know, which Creepin' partially covers, makes a cameo. |
| scope="row"| "One of the Girls"
|Boring Studio (Lee Suho) |style="text-align:left;"|Montage of scenes featuring the Weeknd, Jennie, and Lily-Rose Depp from the television series The Idol interspersed with footage of Depp singing. |{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-weeknd-lily-rose-depp-jennie-blackpink-one-of-the-girls-the-idol-1234776748/|title=Hear The Weeknd, Lily-Rose Depp, Blackpink's Jennie Team Up on 'One of the Girls'|magazine=Rolling Stone|last=Zemler|first=Emily|date=July 6, 2023|access-date=July 6, 2023|archive-date=July 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706172207/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-weeknd-lily-rose-depp-jennie-blackpink-one-of-the-girls-the-idol-1234776748/|url-status=live}} |
| "K-Pop"
| |Travis Scott, Bad Bunny | | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kS7F4VpJa0}} |
| "Popular"
| rowspan="7" |2024 |Madonna, Playboi Carti | | | |
| "Young Metro"
| rowspan="2" |Future & Metro Boomin | | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kSAvHlXRUs}} |
| "We Still Don't Trust You"
|Hidji World, Omar Jones | | |
| "Dancing in the Flames"
|{{N/a}} | | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLlSSJ0z7xM}} |
| "Timeless"
| | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpyN_6dqyk}} |
| "São Paulo"
|{{N/a}} | | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjolTLZ_Mg}} |
| "Red Terror"
|{{N/a}} | | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxzKSHLqdfo}} |
| "Open Hearts"
|2025 |{{N/a}} | | |{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-3ICGjz0U}} |
| scope="col" colspan="6"| Guest appearances |
| scope="row" | "Headlines"
| 2011 | Drake | La Mar Taylor | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye makes a guest appearance with members of his XO record label. |
| scope="row" | "Sarah's Song"
| 2013 | Ricky Hil | La Mar Taylor | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye appears alongside Hil throughout. | |
| scope="row" | "XO Tour Llif3"
| 2017 | style="text-align:left;"|Tesfaye makes a cameo appearance with Nav. |
{{clear}}
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director(s) ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| scope="row" | Road to Release
|2013 | rowspan="10" | Himself |Himself |Short MTV documentary |
| scope="row" | Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live
| 2015 |
| scope="row"| Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
| rowspan="2" | 2016 |
| scope="row" | Mania
| Short film; also co-writer |
| scope="row"| Uncut Gems
| 2019 | Feature film; cameo appearance |
| scope="row"| After Hours
| 2020 | Anton Tammi | Short film |
| scope="row"| The Show
| 2021 | Documentary |
| scope="row"| Live at SoFi Stadium
| 2023 |rowspan="2"| Micah Bickham |rowspan="2"| Concert film |
| scope="row"| Live From São Paulo
| 2024 |
| scope="row"| Hurry Up Tomorrow
| 2025 | Feature film |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col"| Title
!scope="col"| Year !scope="col"| Role !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes !scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | Saturday Night Live
| 2015–16; 2020 | Musical guest |
| scope="row"| American Dad!
| rowspan="2" | 2020 | Himself (voice) | Episode: "A Starboy Is Born"; also co-writer | {{cite web |last1=Aswad |first1=Jem |title=The Weeknd Talks 'American Dad,' and What Most People Don't Know About Him |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/the-weeknd-american-dad-what-people-dont-know-1234695111/ |publisher=Variety |access-date=November 14, 2022 |date=July 1, 2020}} |
| scope="row"| Robot Chicken
| Various voices | Episode: "Endgame" |
| scope="row"| Super Bowl LV Halftime Show
| 2021 | rowspan="2" |Himself | rowspan="2" |Television special |
| scope="row"| The Dawn FM Experience
| rowspan="2" | 2022 |
| scope="row"| The Simpsons
| Orion Hughes, Darius Hughes (voices) | Episode: "Bart the Cool Kid" |
| scope="row"| The Idol
| 2023 | Tedros | Lead role; also co-creator, writer and executive producer |
References
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{{The Weeknd}}
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Category:Canadian filmographies