Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd has up to date his social media profiles to his beginning title.

The artist, whose actual title is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, modified his Twitter and Instagram accounts on Monday. His handles at the moment stay unchanged.

In an interview with W Magazine earlier this month, the Blinding Lights and Die For You singer mentioned he was getting ready to reinvent himself as a musician and needed to "kill The Weeknd".

"I'm going through a cathartic path right now," the 33-year-old instructed the journal.

"It's attending to a spot and a time the place I'm on the brink of shut the Weeknd chapter.

"I'll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn."

He mentioned the album he was engaged on "is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd".

"This is something that I have to do. As The Weeknd, I've said everything I can say."

Last month he tweeted: "ABEL formally known as The Weeknd?" The publish obtained greater than 124,000 likes.

Earlier this yr Mr Tesfaye was named the most well-liked artist on the planet by Guinness World Records following an evaluation of Spotify knowledge.

It mentioned he set two data: probably the most month-to-month listeners on Spotify - 111.4m as of 20 March, and the primary artist to achieve 100 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify.

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