He's one of the world's biggest music stars right now, and The Weeknd is about to bring his spectacular new stadium tour to Manchester. Heading here, fittingly, at the weekend, he will undoubtedly bring the party on what is set to be a scorching Saturday at the Etihad Stadium.
Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd - real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye - heads to the UK on his ongoing After Hours Til Dawn global stadium tour. The American leg of the tour broke records for the numbers of tickets sold.
But then The Weeknd is accustomed to being a record-breaker - according to the Guinness Book of World Records, he is officially the most popular music act on the planet right now. They crunched the stats to proclaim that "no one comes close" to the star in terms of the number of monthly listens on Spotify that rank in the tens of millions.
