In the days after, he took to social media to announce his return to music with the captions 'the fall starts tomorrow night' and 'Tonight we start a new brain melting psychotic chapter! Let's go!'.

The full-length version of the commercial premiered on November 29, alongside the single. It shows the Weeknd driving a Mercedes-Benz EQC SUV and asking the system to play his new song. On November 24, 2019, a Mercedes-Benz commercial first aired on German TV featuring a clip of 'Blinding Lights'. He previously announced a project referred to as Chapter VI in June 2019. Īfter a five-month social media hiatus, the singer-songwriter returned to Instagram on November 20, 2019, and posted six days later on November 26, 2019. 'Blinding Lights' has three official remixes: one by electronic band Chromatics, one by electronic dance music group Major Lazer, and one featuring singer-songwriter Rosalía.

It was also Spotify's most streamed song of 2020 with nearly 1.6 billion streams and is the 2nd most streamed song of all time on the platform, being the fastest song in history to reach the milestone of 2 billion streams on Spotify. The Weeknd's most successful single worldwide to date, 'Blinding Lights' was the best-performing global single of 2020, earning 2.72 billion subscription stream equivalents globally according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). On November 23, 2021, it was ranked as the #1 Greatest Hot 100 Hit of All Time by Billboard. It has also topped the record charts in the United Kingdom and 36 other countries. The song finished 2020 as the year's top Billboard Hot 100 song. It is also the longest charting song on the Hot 100 of all-time at 90 weeks, ending the week of September 11, 2021. In the United States, the song topped the Hot 100 for four weeks, and went to become the song with most weeks spent in the top 5, top 10, top 20, top 40 and top 100 on the chart, as well as the first song to hold a spot in the top 10 on the chart for an entire year. 'Blinding Lights' peaked at number one on the Canadian Hot 100, giving the Weeknd his fifth number-one hit on the chart.

The song was written and produced by the Weeknd, Max Martin and Oscar Holter, with Ahmad Balshe and Jason Quenneville receiving additional credits. It was released on Novemthrough XO and Republic Records, as the second single from his fourth studio album After Hours (2020). ' Blinding Lights' is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd.

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