Pop star The Weeknd has reverted to his birth name Abel Tesfaye on social media.
The singer, known for his catchy pop tunes like Blinding Lights, asked his fans on Twitter in April if he should make the switch.
"ABEL officially known as The Weeknd?" he asked his fans in a tweet that received over a hundred thousand likes.
The name change comes after the award-winning artist revealed he wanted to "kill The Weeknd" to W Magazine.
"I'm going through a new path now," he said. "I'm getting to a place and time where I'm getting ready to close The Weeknd chapter.
The artist has previously said that his name came about after he left school "going away one weekend and never coming home", the Daily Mail reported.
But he told W Magazine: "Like the Weeknd, I've said everything I can say."
During his music career he has won four Grammy Awards, had more than 45 platinum singles and albums, and broken many music records.
In March 2023, Guinness World Records declared him the most popular artist in the world due to the number of monthly listeners he had on Spotify.
As of March 2023, the 33-year-old had 111.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify and was the first artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on the app.
