Live at SoFi Stadium

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Live at SoFi Stadium
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Live album by
the Weeknd
ReleasedMarch 3, 2023 (2023-03-03) [1]
RecordedNovember 26–27, 2022
Venue SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California
Length95:00
Label
The Weeknd chronology
Dawn FM
(2022)		Live at SoFi Stadium
(2023)		 The Idol Episode 1 (Music from the HBO Original Series)
(2023)

Live at SoFi Stadium is the first live album by Canadian singer the Weeknd. It was released on March 3, 2023, through XO and Republic Records. The album was recorded during two November 2022 concerts at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, as a part of After Hours til Dawn Tour. A week earlier, the concert film of the same name was released on HBO Max and became the highest debut for a music special in the history of HBO Max. The set list includes songs from the Weeknd's previous projects: Dawn FM (2022), After Hours (2020), My Dear Melancholy (2018), Starboy (2016), Beauty Behind the Madness (2015), Kiss Land (2013), and House of Balloons (2011), along with multiple songs he was featured on.

Contents

Background and release

In February 2020, the Weeknd announced he would embark on The After Hours Tour in support of the album of the same name. The tour was due to kick-off in June of that year and was to be his first tour outside of Asia since 2017's Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour. [2] However, due to the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tour was originally postponed to 2021 and later, January 2022. [3] [4] On August 6, 2021, the Weeknd released "Take My Breath", the lead single from Dawn FM . [5] To reflect the release of a new album while still incorporating its predecessor, he announced in October that the tour would be renamed and postponed for a third time to summer 2022. The tour was also moved from arenas to stadiums. [6] The new tour, titled the After Hours til Dawn Tour, was finally announced on March 3, 2022, and kicked off on July 14 in Philadelphia. [7]

On February 2, 2023, the Weeknd announced that a concert film recorded at two sold-out shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on November 26 and 27, 2022 would be released on HBO/HBO Max on February 25. [8] [9] The concert film, titled Live at SoFi Stadium, became the highest debut for a music special in the history of HBO Max. [10] On March 1, 2023, The Weeknd announced the release of his first live album, titled after the concert film. [11] It was released on March 3 on streaming services and as a digital download. [1] The album, which runs for exactly 95 minutes, consists of 31 tracks, encompassing every song performed during the show in addition to the introduction and concluding segments of the concert. [12]

Track listing

Live at SoFi Stadium track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro"
1:35
2."Alone Again"
2:47
3."Gasoline"
3:15
4."Sacrifice"
4:23
5."How Do I Make You Love Me?"
  • Tesfaye
  • Lopatin
  • Martin
  • Hedfors
  • Angello
  • Ingrosso
  • Holter
  • Cohn
3:29
6."Can't Feel My Face"
3:03
7."Take My Breath"
  • Tesfaye
  • Ahmad Balshe
  • Andrea Di Ceglie
  • Luigi Tutolo
  • Martin
  • Holter
3:55
8."Hurricane"
2:07
9."The Hills"
  • Tesfaye
  • Balshe
  • Emmanuel Nickerson
  • Montagnese
3:05
10."Often"
2:28
11."Crew Love"
1:53
12."Starboy"
4:05
13."Heartless"
2:04
14."Low Life"
1:47
15."Or Nah"
1:41
16."Kiss Land"
1:50
17."Party Monster"
3:09
18."Faith"
  • Tesfaye
  • Balshe
  • Montagnese
  • Wayne
3:05
19."After Hours"
4:27
20."Out of Time"
3:20
21."I Feel It Coming"
  • Tesfaye
  • Bangalter
  • de Homem-Christo
  • McKinney
  • Walter
  • Eric Chedeville
3:54
22."Die for You"
  • Tesfaye
  • McKinney
  • Mejdi Rhars
  • Dylan Wiggins
  • Magnus Høiberg
  • William Thomas Walsh
  • Walter
3:13
23."Is There Someone Else?"
  • Tesfaye
  • Lopatin
  • Martin
  • Thomas Brown
  • Peter Lee Johnson
3:57
24."I Was Never There"
2:17
25."Wicked Games"
  • Tesfaye
  • McKinney
  • Montagnese
  • Rainer Millar Blanchaer
2:23
26."Call Out My Name"
4:02
27."The Morning"
  • Tesfaye
  • McKinney
  • Montagnese
3:19
28."Save Your Tears"
  • Tesfaye
  • Balshe
  • Quenneville
  • Martin
  • Holter
2:58
29."Less than Zero"
  • Tesfaye
  • Martin
  • Holter
4:04
30."Blinding Lights"
  • Tesfaye
  • Balshe
  • Quenneville
  • Martin
  • Holter
4:13
31."Outro"
  • Tesfaye
  • Dean
3:10
Total length:95:00

Personnel

Adapted from HBO special closing credits.

Charts

Chart performance for Live at SoFi Stadium
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU) [13] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [14] 44
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [15] 117
Scottish Albums (OCC) [16] 30
UK Albums Sales (OCC) [17] 38
UK Physical Albums (OCC) [18] 36
US Billboard 200 [19] 172

Release history

Release history for Live at SoFi Stadium
RegionDateLabel(s)Format(s)Ref.
VariousMarch 3, 2023 [12]
April 20, 2024 LP [20]

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