As of April 2022, the album is certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).Īfter the commercial success of his previous album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015), the Weeknd hinted at the release of his third studio album on March 12, 2016, with an Instagram post calling it the next "chapter" to his music. Starboy won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018, marking the Weeknd's second win in that category. It also debuted at number one on Billboard 's Canadian Albums Chart. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 348,000 album-equivalent units (209,000 of which were pure sales), becoming the Weeknd's second consecutive number-one album. Starboy was supported by seven singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single of the same name and the top-five single " I Feel It Coming". As the album's executive producers, the Weeknd and Doc McKinney enlisted a variety of producers such as Diplo, Cashmere Cat, Metro Boomin, Frank Dukes, and Labrinth, among others. It features guest appearances from Daft Punk, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, and Future. Starboy is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd, released on November 25, 2016, through XO and Republic Records.
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