His second studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness, was released in 2015, and reached number one of the albums charts of Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Both singles were top-ten entries on singles charts of Canada and the US. In 2014, the Weeknd recorded the single ' Love Me Harder' with Ariana Grande for her album My Everything, and the single ' Earned It' for the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. His debut studio album, Kiss Land, reached number two on the albums charts of Canada and the US. The album spawned three singles, all of which were certified platinum or more in the US: ' Wicked Games', ' Twenty Eight', and ' The Zone' (featuring Drake).

Trilogy peaked within the top five on albums charts and was certified multi-platinum in Canada and the US. He signed with Republic Records in 2012, and released Trilogy, a compilation album of the three mixtapes he had released the previous year. The Weeknd released three mixtapes in 2011: House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, the first of which was certified silver in the UK. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, The Weeknd has accumulated 12.5В million certified album units and 83В million certified digital single units in the US, based on sales and on-demand streaming. Canadian singer and songwriter The Weeknd has released four studio albums, three mixtapes, one extended play (EP), and three compilation albums, and 51 singles (including 16 as a featured artist).

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