The Weeknd Thread ( "The Dawn FM" OUT NOW)

[atransta]

Just got put onto his music and damn have I been missing out. Downloaded all 3 mixtapes and they are all fire

 

[speakup23]

Originally Posted by lebrady23

Originally Posted by Checks McGee

Originally Posted by SpeakUp23


Dopest SN ever

But yea, I thought about that too.

and then the prequels release years later on some Star Wars $**$

speakup- appreciate it my dad just called me that one time cause I'm such a big bron fan haha

Just so we are on the same page, its a cross of LeBron and Tom Brady right?

Originally Posted by henz0

Next is the hardest track on EOS

By a long shot

 

[redman]

Originally Posted by maldonado

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/29/the-weekndfree-music-model?newsfeed=true



[h1]The Weeknd finds lucrative career path – without ever selling a record[/h1]

Abel Tesfaye gives away his music for free, but has still found overwhelming success. Is this the future of the music industry?

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The Weeknd: buzzy, downbeat R&B. Photograph: Clinton Gilders/FilmMagic/Getty Images


Christmas came a few days early for fans of the buzzy, downbeat R&B act The Weeknd, the stage name of Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye: his newest album, Echoes of Silence, became available for download from his website free of charge on 21 December.


Then again, Christmas also came in August, when The Weeknd released his second album, Thursday, via complimentary download, and before that in March, when trendspotters were able to snatch up his debut, House of Balloons, also gratis. Balloons, with its sensual, druggy soul slow jams, landed on the 2011 top ten lists of a host of publications, including the New York Times, Billboard and the Guardian, and was shortlisted for 2011's Polaris Music Prize. It's been a banner year for The Weeknd – in terms of cachet and critical acclaim – and one that proves that sometimes there is such thing as a free lunch.


The Weeknd's rapid ascendance demonstrates how drastically the approach to disseminate music and building an audience has changed in the first decade of the 21st century. The sea change has been so dramatic that it's easy to forget it was only 10 years ago that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was testifying before Congress, explaining the band's decision to sue the game-changing, peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster. "It is clear, then, that if music is free for downloading, the music industry is not viable," Ulrich testified in July of 2000. "The argument that music should be free must then mean the musicians should work for free. Nobody else works for free. Why should musicians?"


Even then, Ulrich's argument sounded like one that would seem fusty in 10 years, and while no one is arguing that musicians should work for free, The Weeknd's approach is proof that musicians are increasingly accepting the idea that albums, even great ones, are a means to an end. In 2007, Radiohead released In Rainbows via a voluntary donation system in which fans and bandwagon-jumpers alike could download the album for as much or as little as they saw fit. The Weeknd's model is the next step in that evolution. Instead of devaluing the product, offering the music for free has lent it an aura of reverse prestige. It's the album equivalent of a trendy nightclub with no sign outside. Or perhaps a better comparison would be the social media platforms Facebook and Twitter, both of which grew out of the idea that providing a unique, valuable end-user experience should always be the primary focus. Figuring out how to monetize that experience comes later.


The Weeknd has clearly figured out the end-user experience part – so many people rushed to download Echoes of Silence that the server crashed – but he's yet to figure out how to turn the demand he's created into a windfall. Tesfaye is emphatically press-shy (he has yet to grant a major interview and did not respond to a request from the Guardian) and has played so few shows you could count them on two hands and still have enough fingers left over to eat with chopsticks. In an interview with Billboard, music executive Marc Geiger claimed The Weeknd was flooded with offers from labels within the week of the Balloons release, as well as a $25,000 offer to play one show. The Weeknd has placed himself in the precarious position of having to figure out how to sell his cachet without forfeiting it, but there does appear to be a path to a lucrative music career without ever selling a record.


If 2011 was the year of The Weeknd, 2012 could be the year of the Weeknd model. At the end of the summer, singer-songwriter-producer The-Dream released 1977, a full-length, free download album under his birth name Terius Nash. Kanye West offered up free tracks in the build-up to the release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, as did Drake, to drum up anticipation for Take Care. (Not incidentally, Drake, a fellow Canadian, was one of The Weeknd's earliest co-signers, and collaborated with him on four of Take Care's tracks.)


By now it's been demonstrated that offering up free music isn't just a marketing ploy for an already massive artist or a way to say thank you to fans. When executed correctly, giving music – even entire albums – away free is a way to build a savvy, pacesetting audience from the ground up, an audience that will spread the gospel via social networking platforms. In other words, everybody's working for The Weeknd, and when Tesfaye decides to shed his reclusive ways (or heaven forbid, charge for his music) he could be sitting on a new-media goldmine. Not unlike Mark Zuckerberg, but with better pipes.

While the information within the article is correct. Artist have been using the "free" music model for years before The Weeknd. Who was the first artist to do a solo mixtape, was it 50 Cent?

 

[tego calderon el abayarde]

at the reaction vid.
"who hurt this n?"

 

[localnative88]

House of Balloons is the only one I really, really like. The other ones, not so much.

 

[mr kuter]

This tape has grown on me SOOO much. I was at a theme park yesterday singing it the entire time, random songs just appearing from my subconscious. I was itching for 10 gottdamn hours waiting to get back to the car just to listen to it form start to finish. I dont even want to stan like this, its making me uncomfortable almost. The boy is just that good, all respect to his epic 2011 year. I dont know what else to say.

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[henz0]

 

[Gordonson]

Originally Posted by Mr Kuter

This tape has grown on me SOOO much. I was at a theme park yesterday singing it the entire time, random songs just appearing from my subconscious. I was itching for 10 gottdamn hours waiting to get back to the car just to listen to it form start to finish. I dont even want to stan like this, its making me uncomfortable almost. The boy is just that good, all respect to his epic 2011 year. I dont know what else to say.

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Originally Posted by henz0

^ Indeed. But I know that feel. I had to come to terms with my standom during the wait for Thursday. I NEVER fiendishly waited for anything like that before. I've never even thirsted for a girl the way I was waiting for that tape. Just ridiculous. 

 

[Truth]

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Hold up, he turned down 25,000 to play one show?

 

[chopperville]

 

[P A Z]

Mr Kuter wrote:

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This tape has grown on me SOOO much. I was at a theme park yesterday singing it the entire time, random songs just appearing from my subconscious. I was itching for 10 gottdamn hours waiting to get back to the car just to listen to it form start to finish. I dont even want to stan like this, its making me uncomfortable almost. The boy is just that good, all respect to his epic 2011 year. I dont know what else to say. 

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^^
4:21 of The Fall gets sung on a regular..
X OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOO

 

[scotthallwithapick]

Originally Posted by Mr Kuter

This tape has grown on me SOOO much. I was at a theme park yesterday singing it the entire time, random songs just appearing from my subconscious. I was itching for 10 gottdamn hours waiting to get back to the car just to listen to it form start to finish. I dont even want to stan like this, its making me uncomfortable almost. The boy is just that good, all respect to his epic 2011 year. I dont know what else to say.

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I feel this 100%

 

[thunderchunk69]

legit?
http://mixtapemonkey.com/mixtape.php?m=354

[table][tr][td][h2]Before The Balloons[/h2][/td][/tr][tr][td]The Weeknd[/td][/tr][tr][td]R&B[/td][/tr][/table]

 

[Gordonson]

Originally Posted by ThunderChunk69


legit?
http://mixtapemonkey.com/mixtape.php?m=354

[table][tr][td][h2]Before The Balloons[/h2][/td][/tr][tr][td]The Weeknd[/td][/tr][tr][td]R&B[/td][/tr][/table]

Nope. A fan made tape of Noise era tracks that have popped up both on The Noise EP (also unofficial) and over the last couple of months after it.

 

[thunderchunk69]

thank you very much!

 

[vezon]

My god Montreal is

 

[servechilled81]

Originally Posted by Mr Kuter

This tape has grown on me SOOO much. I was at a theme park yesterday singing it the entire time, random songs just appearing from my subconscious. I was itching for 10 gottdamn hours waiting to get back to the car just to listen to it form start to finish. I dont even want to stan like this, its making me uncomfortable almost. The boy is just that good, all respect to his epic 2011 year. I dont know what else to say.

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happened to me with HOB.  I think it was Mother's Day.  I'm sitting at my grandmothers house looking around at my aunts and cousins like 

 (in my head)
they wouldn't even understand if it tried to put them on.  I'm just there trying to plot my exit without it being to abrupt, so I can go home an listen to it.

 

[checks mcgee]

artist of the year for 2011.  it's not even close.

 

[solefood229]

I was playing the album when a chick came over the other night, and the %*!$+ had the nerve to ask me if I was listening to Trey songz, I gave her a cam'ron ice grill

Straight disrespectful

 

[Mister Meaner]

It's crazy to think I've been listening since my bday (April 1) & not a single day has passed that I haven't listened to a Weeknd mixtape. Forget trying to rank them, what he's done to music has left an indelible mark that no one can deny. It felt like the longest wait between HoB & Thursday, but the wait was well worth it. And now that this little trilogy is complete, I find myself back in that same position after hearing HoB for the first time.....I want more.


That is all.

 

[Gordonson]

Originally Posted by solefood229

I was playing the album when a chick came over the other night, and the %*!$+ had the nerve to ask me if I was listening to Trey songz, I gave her a cam'ron ice grill

Straight disrespectful

She must've wanted to go back home

 

[primetime21]

Tonight i will get drunk and make love to outside

 

[brotherforreal]

Abel got dudes playing for the other side now.

 

[true 3 blue]

The Fall, though.