His Super Bowl Halftime performance earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) in 2021. He won a second Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album in 2018 for his third studio album Starboy (2016). He gained major critical and commercial success with his second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015), which won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album and received a nomination for Album of the Year. In addition, the video for I Feel It Coming ends with the same static. For the single " Earned It" from the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades of Grey, the Weeknd received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990) a.k.a. His debut studio album Kiss Land was released in 2013 to generally positive reviews. In 2012, the Weeknd signed with Republic Records and re-released his three mixtapes in the compilation album Trilogy. House of Balloons was one of the ten shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize, while Echoes of Silence was a longlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. After co-founding the XO record label in 2011, he rose to prominence following the release of his critically acclaimed mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence. The Weeknd is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer.