{"id":2041755,"date":"2025-09-22T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041755"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:27:15","slug":"the-weeknd-bails-on-global-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-weeknd-bails-on-global-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Bails On Global Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Weeknd has dropped out of his planned headlining slot at the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday (Sept. 27) in New York\u2019s Central Park and will be replaced on the bill by Cardi B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI regret to share that, due to personal reasons, I am unable to perform at Global Citizen,\u201d the Weeknd (real name: Abel Tesfaye) said in a statement. \u201cThank you to my fans for taking action with them, as I believe in their mission deeply. Thank you for your understanding and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More from Spin:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cCentral Park, I\u2019m coming for you!!!,\u201d Cardi B added. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to be home in New York, and to bring my new songs and all the DRAMA to the Global Citizen festival. This one\u2019s not like other music festivals \u2014 this one is about coming together to help children around the world, and I\u2019m so proud to support such an important cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hosted by Hugh Jackman, Global Citizen will also feature performances from Shakira, Tyla, Mariah the Scientist, Camilo and Elyanna and will be carried on YouTube, Amazon Music, Apple Music and iHeartRadio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event was the subject of significant controversy when Central Park\u2019s Great Lawn was heavily damaged during its rain-marred 2023 edition, after which Global Citizen paid millions of dollars to restore the grass. At the time, several local politicians called for the festival to be moved to a stadium or arena in the interest of preserving the park\u2019s green space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd has dropped out of his planned headlining slot at the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday (Sept. 27) in New York\u2019s Central Park and will be replaced on the bill by Cardi B. \u201cI regret to share that, due to personal reasons, I am unable to perform at Global Citizen,\u201d the Weeknd (real name: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[360056,346310,306354],"class_list":["post-2041755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-central-park","tag-global-citizen","tag-the-weeknd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Weeknd-Bails-On-Global-Citizen.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}