The Weeknd’s ‘Cry for Me’ Music Video: Watch

The Weeknd is fresh off the release of his newest album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, and the superstar continued the roll-out with a cinematic music video for the single, “Cry For Me.”

In the black-and-white visual, the star (real name Abel Tesfaye) appears in a sparkling outfit with a hood covering part of his face, as he walks towards a woman in the pitch black. The scene frequently flashes to the musicians wandering a city and the woman crying thick, dark liquid. “I hope you cry for me like I cry for you,” he proclaims in the chorus.

The “Cry For Me” music video arrives amid a new accomplishment for The Weeknd. The star landed his fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Hurry Up Tomorrow atop the survey dated Feb. 15. He previously led the chart with After Hours (2020), My Dear Melancholy (2018), Starboy (2016) and Beauty Behind the Madness (2015).

Hurry Up Tomorrow features 22 tracks, including previously-released singles like the Playboi Carti-assisted “Timeless,” which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “São Paulo” with Anitta.

Earlier this year, The Weeknd suggested that Hurry Up Tomorrow is likely the last album under his well-known persona. “It’s a headspace I’ve gotta get into that I just don’t have any more desire for,” he said of his moniker during a January Variety cover story. “You have a persona, but then you have the competition of it all. It becomes this rat race: more accolades, more success, more shows, more albums, more awards and more No. 1s. It never ends until you end it.”

However, he still plans on making music, adding, “I don’t think I can stop doing that.” “But everything needs to feel like a challenge, and for me right now, the Weeknd, whatever that is, it’s been mastered. No one’s gonna do The Weeknd better than me, and I’m not gonna do it better than what it is right now.”

Watch the “Cry for Me” music video below.