The Weeknd: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shoot
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"Go back to my first show at the Mod Club in Toronto, and I was terrified. You could see it on my face. I never thought I’d love going onstage, but I do now. I’m addicted to it," the Weeknd tells Billboard in our No. 1s cover story. [Abel Tesfaye photographed on Nov. 16, 2016 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles.]
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Abel Tesfaye photographed on Nov. 16, 2016 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Tesfaye wears a Mr. Completely T-shirt and jacket, Acne Studios jeans, Saint Laurent boots and O Thongthai ring.
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"When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble."
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Abel Tesfaye photographed on Nov. 16, 2016 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Tesfaye wears a Givenchy T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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“I’d rather be unhealthy when I’m working. I’ll start working out when I go on tour. But as long as my face looks OK, I’m good.”
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"Abel is a genius,” says Halsey, who opened for The Weeknd on tour in 2015. “If Adele stole our hearts by singing the stories of our life, Abel sings the story of the life you wish you had.”