{"id":2394606,"date":"2026-04-29T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2394606"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:04:31","slug":"watch-the-weeknd-debut-new-anitta-collab-rio-on-tour-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-the-weeknd-debut-new-anitta-collab-rio-on-tour-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Weeknd debut new Anitta collab &#8216;Rio&#8217; on tour in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a> has debuted the energetic new single \u2018Rio\u2019, a collaboration with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/anitta\">Anitta<\/a>, at his concert in Rio De Janeiro on Sunday (April 26).<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning artist, real name Abel Tesfaye, premiered the track at Est\u00e1dio Ol\u00edmpico Nilton Santos during his record-breaking the South American leg of his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-weeknds-after-hours-til-dawn-tour-is-now-the-highest-grossing-tour-by-a-male-artist-in-history-3910756\">\u2018After Hours til Dawn\u2019 tour<\/a>, supported the Brazilian singer. He performed the song accompanied by an animated short film, directed by legendary horror filmmaker Takashi Miike<\/p>\n<p>On stage, a line of dancers wearing red cloaks separated the two singers on the stage\u2019s runway. Pyrotechnics lined the stage throughout the performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd has collaborated with Anitta before, on the similarly themed 2024 single \u2018S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019. You can check out the clip shared on his official Instagram, and the official video, below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXo6V65jh1q\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Weeknd, Anitta - RIO \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRnutWA7CWM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The song mixes Latin American rhythms with a thumping bassline, while The Weeknd\u2019s soft vocals promise: \u201c<em>I don\u2019t care about all of your crimes\/You don\u2019t care about all of my vices\/Dealing with the dangers in our lives\/Turn it up, turn it up<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song is the first new music from the artist since last year\u2019s \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/the-weeknd-hurry-up-tomorrow-review-3833573\">Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/a>\u2019, which he hinted may be his last under The Weeknd stage name. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/the-weeknd-hurry-up-tomorrow-review-3833573\"><em>NME<\/em>\u2019s four-star review<\/a> described it as \u201ca fitting \u2013 and intriguing \u2013 swansong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing \u2018After Hours til Dawn\u2019 tour, which began in 2022, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-weeknds-after-hours-til-dawn-tour-is-now-the-highest-grossing-tour-by-a-male-artist-in-history-3910756\">has earned over $1billion (\u00a3740million), a record for a male recording artist<\/a>. That figure was surpassed last winter, although it includes ticket sales from 2026 dates. The tour has passed 153 shows and 7.5million tickets sold.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/these-are-spotifys-most-streamed-artists-songs-and-albums-of-all-time-3942011\">streaming service Spotify celebrated 20 years by sharing the most streamed artists in its history.<\/a> The Weeknd came fourth in the artists list, while his 2019 song \u2018Blinding Lights\u2019 topped the individual songs list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd has debuted the energetic new single \u2018Rio\u2019, a collaboration with Anitta, at his concert in Rio De Janeiro on Sunday (April 26). The award-winning artist, real name Abel Tesfaye, premiered the track at Est\u00e1dio Ol\u00edmpico Nilton Santos during his record-breaking the South American leg of his \u2018After Hours til Dawn\u2019 tour, supported the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394607,"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":[25179],"tags":[467279,21947],"class_list":["post-2394606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-pop-rb","tag-rb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Watch-The-Weeknd-debut-new-Anitta-collab-Rio-on-tour.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394606","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=2394606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394608,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394606\/revisions\/2394608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}