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Released | February 5, 2021 | |||
Recorded | 2010–2020 | |||
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Length | 77:55 | |||
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The Highlights is the second greatest hits album, and first one released globally, by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd.[4] It was released on February 5, 2021,[5] and follows the release of his fourth studio album After Hours (2020) and his first greatest hits album The Weeknd in Japan (2018).[6][7] It was released in anticipation of his performance at the Super Bowl LV halftime show.[8][9]
The track list is composed of songs from his three Billboard 200 number one studio albums: Beauty Behind the Madness (2015), Starboy (2016), and After Hours (2020), his debut mixtape House of Balloons (2011), his EP My Dear Melancholy (2018), and his two co-lead collaborations "Love Me Harder" and "Pray for Me", with Ariana Grande and Kendrick Lamar respectively, from the albums My Everything (2014) and Black Panther: The Album (2018).[10]
A deluxe version of The Highlights was released on February 9, 2024, featuring a reworked tracklist and more songs from the Weeknd's aforementioned projects, his studio album Dawn FM (2022), the soundtrack to his television series The Idol (2023), and his promotional single "King of the Fall" (2014).[11]
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