The Weeknd
The Weeknd had 40M subscribers as of August 31, 2026, ranked #4 in Canada. The channel has accumulated 37.5B views across 204 videos since 2011.
Relative to its audience, that is 939 lifetime views per subscriber and 15.6M views generated per day.
Where does The Weeknd rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, The Weeknd sits 4th in Canada and 194th worldwide.
Over the last 29 days, The Weeknd's subscriber count moved by +0.25 %.
When did The Weeknd start on YouTube?
The Weeknd published their first video on February 25, 2011, "The Weeknd - What You Need", which has 48.7M views. Their biggest hit since does 8.7 × that number.
The Weeknd published 200 videos between 2011 and 2025, peaking at 44 in 2023. Since 2023, videos under 3 minutes account for 54% of output, against 32% before.
What is The Weeknd's most-viewed video?
The Weeknd's most-viewed video is "The Weeknd, JENNIE & Lily Rose Depp - One Of The Girls (Official Audio)", with 425.2M views. That is 28 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 3.5% of the channel's total views.
28 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
Which format works best for The Weeknd?
On The Weeknd, mid-form (3 to 20 min) performs best: a median of 5.1M views across 118 videos analysed. That is 7.5 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.
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How many views does a typical The Weeknd video get?
The median The Weeknd video has 2.5M views, computed across 202 analysed videos.
How long has The Weeknd been publishing on YouTube?
The Weeknd has been publishing for 16 years, averaging 13 videos per year.
Which country is The Weeknd from?
The Weeknd is registered in CA.
Is this data up to date?
Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on August 31, 2026. Per-video measures cover 202 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 8/31/2026). Per-video measures computed across 202 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.
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