The Weeknd No Longer Wants To Drop His Stage NameThe Weeknd performs onstage during the Michael Rubin REFORM Alliance Casino Night Event on September 13, 2025 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. “The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd,” he told W Magazine. The singer adamantly said he was going through a “cathartic path” and wanted to “close the Weeknd chapter.” “I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as the Weeknd. No one’s gonna do the Weeknd better than me, and I’m not gonna do it better than what it is right now.”