{"id":17951,"date":"2018-08-21T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=17951"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:37:46","slug":"the-weeknd-live-in-manila-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2018\/08\/21\/the-weeknd-live-in-manila-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd LIVE in Manila 2018!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Weeknd - Call Out My Name (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4ZoCHID9GI?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><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, <strong>The Weeknd<\/strong> is having his Asian leg tour and Manila is his 4th stop! Happening this <strong>December 7, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0at the <strong>Mall of Asia Arena,<\/strong> The Weeknd\u00a0is bringing us some of his chart-topping hits that will surely make your heads bob to the beat!<\/p>\n<p>Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known by his stage name as <strong>The Weeknd,<\/strong> is a Canadian\u00a0singer-songwriter and producer. He started uploading mixtapes under the name The Weeknd back in 2010 and\u00a0gained a lot of attention online including the Canadian rapper Drake. By 2011, Abel self-produced his debut mixtape <em>House of Balloons,\u00a0<\/em><em>Thursday<\/em>, and <em>Echoes of Silence. <\/em>The mixtapes were known as the<em> Balloons Trilogy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17952\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/the-weeknd-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the trilogy release, Abel began touring the United States and Europe receiving various offers and recognition such as the 8 million downloads on the Balloons Trilogy. In 2012,\u00a0Abel signed up with Republic Records\u00a0and compiled his mixtapes to an album called <em>&#8220;Trilogy&#8221;<\/em> which consists of several remastered songs and three additional ones.<\/p>\n<p>By 2013, he released his debut album <em>Kiss Land<\/em>, which debuted number 2 in US Billboard 200 and <em>Beauty Behind the Madness<\/em> in 2015 with 412,000 album units in one week.\u00a0This year, Abel released his third studio album called <em>Starboy<\/em> and his extended play of <em>My Dear Melancholy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally bringing his hit albums and singles in Manila for the first time, make sure to mark your calendars and start saving up now as tickets will go on sale on<strong> August 25, 2018<\/strong>! To guide you as early as now, here&#8217;s the seating plan for The Weeknd&#8217;s concert in Manila! We&#8217;ll keep you posted on where and how you can purchase your tickets. Prices will also be updated soon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17953\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/the-weeknd-seat-plan.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/the-weeknd-seat-plan.jpg 676w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/the-weeknd-seat-plan-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For ticket prices and selling, make sure to visit our website regularly as we update you once the ticket selling is out. For additional information, you can visit the promoter&#8217;s Facebook page at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mmilive\/\">mmilive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What: The Weeknd in Manila<br \/>\nWhen:\u00a0December 7, 2018<br \/>\nWhere:\u00a0Mall of Asia Arena<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theweeknd\/\">facebook.com\/theweeknd\/<\/a><br \/>\nWebsite:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweeknd.com\/\">https:\/\/www.theweeknd.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd is having his Asian leg tour and Manila is 4th on his stop, happening this December 7, 2018, at the Mall of Asia Arena!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,21,293],"tags":[5830,5832,5831],"class_list":["post-17951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pasay","category-concert","category-moa-arena","category-performance","tag-the-weeknd","tag-the-weeknd-in-manila","tag-trilogy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17951"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17969,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions\/17969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}